October's Last Minutes Of Daylight

David McMahon

October's Last Minutes Of Daylight

The simple strength of this sight literally stopped me in my tracks at Southbank on the weekend. The sun was on the horizon, but the variance of light playing on the clouds caught my eye.

As I reached for my camera, I realised the true beauty lay in framing the clouds vertically, in the context of the strong architecture above and to both sides of where I stood.

So yes, it’s an urban ‘scape in every sense, but by composing this shot in the totality of the towering silhouettes, the triangles and the rectangles, I framed Nature in the context of manmade structures.

I do not crop, enhance or post-edit my images in any way. Shot with a Pentax K100D, using a Sigma 18-125mm lens. F8, 1/500 sec, ISO 200, focal length 125mm.

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October's Last Minutes Of Daylight by David McMahon
October's Last Minutes Of Daylight by David McMahon
  • Merrilyn Hunt

    Merrilyn Hunt

    Oh great moody shot, David!

  • David McMahon replied

    Thanks very much – it was taken right down in the forecourt.

  • Thomas Simunsen

    Thomas Simunsen

    A typical spring day in Melbourne lol….Sunny, hot, stormy!!

  • David McMahon replied

    ... and muggy, too. A humid evening, Thomas, but the sky was pretty good!

  • Thomas Simunsen

    Thomas Simunsen

    It has been very humid for the last week or so and the lightning shows of an evening are spectacular at the moment!!

  • David McMahon replied

    Great photo in today’s Herald Sun of the lightning strikes – did you see that?

  • IndraniGhose

    IndraniGhose

    Great title! And those last minutes framed so well.

  • David McMahon replied

    Thanks very much, Indrani – the silhouettes are actualy two separate buildings, one on my left and the other on my right! So glad you liked this shot.

  • leonie7

    leonie7

    fabulous shot

  • David McMahon replied

    Thank you, Leonie. It’s a good thing I was looking up, or I would have missed this sight!

  • Magaret Meintjes

    Magaret Meintjes

    Stunning! Well done!

  • David McMahon replied

    Thanks very much, Margaret. October is the second month of our spring, so summer is not far away now! Delighted that you like the concept behind the photo!

  • LynnEde

    LynnEde

    What a great idea for a subject.

  • David McMahon replied

    Very kind of you, Lyn. Sometimes the simplest ideas work the best!

  • Betty Mackey

    Betty Mackey

    Wow, very very beautiful. And as a person up here in the Northern Hemisphere where it is getting dark at quarter past five, it speaks to me.

  • David McMahon replied

    Thank you very much, Betty. We are really enjoying the long days now, with early sunrise and very late sunsets. Glad you liked the shot.

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    Thanks

  • David McMahon replied

    Sorry – my intention, as ALWAYS, is never to offend.

  • Shulie1

    Shulie1

    I really like how this is framed with the angular buildings

  • David McMahon replied

    Thanks very much, Shulie. The concept just occurred to me as I was walking. The interesting thing is that I had to find the right angle, in order to make two buildings look like one!

  • sfmilner

    sfmilner

    Greetings David; Beautifully done, love the silhouetted framing.
    steve

  • David McMahon replied

    Thanks very much, Steve. Thought I’d take a shot that was ``different’’!

  • shaneran

    shaneran 23 days ago

    Fabulous!! I loved the framing and your words that explain the image Framing nature with manmade structures! love it!

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