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Melbourne Star Urban View 2

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A Final FlourishThis is the final feature from my recent tour of Victoria, Australia. We have covered a great deal of ground, geographically and photographically from ferns and forests, birds and animals. sunsets and sunrises to abstractions and street art. For this last Journal I thought I'd highlight architecture - in a very wide sense.
While in Melbourne, we took a trip on the Melbourne Star with our good friends Coco kayandjay100 and her son Jack. The Melbourne Star http://www.melbournestar.com/ is the Southern Hemispheres answer to the London Eye - a huge, magnificent observation wheel sited, in the Docklands, that provides astonishing views over Melbourne and its surrounding countryside. The trip takes about 35 minutes real time, but about 5 minutes psychological time, so amazing are the views. Regarding the theme of architecture, check out the structure of the gondola seen in the first image, (a bit like a huge scary metallic arachnoid) and then the urban architecture of motorways, cr
Image size
5760x2742px 11.2 MB
Make
Canon
Model
Canon EOS 5D Mark III
Shutter Speed
1/250 second
Aperture
F/8.0
Focal Length
200 mm
ISO Speed
100
Date Taken
Feb 1, 2015, 1:45:38 PM
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Taken from a plane, David?