AUSSIEMANDIAS - THE LAST SHOT
(BEST SEEN LARGE)
Over a century before the Fall the tower was used for the production of lead shot for weapons.
Derelict, it was roofed over and became the nostalgic centrepiece of a shopping mall.
After the Fall, derelict again, it stood ready to outwait the ages.
Silent in the empty space.
Alone in the night the protective cone glowed amidst the glass and concrete canyons of the dark necropolis.
A solar powered spotlight illuminating the tower for long vanished tourists.
The batteries would fail one day.
Or a wire would part.
Or the collectors would become covered with dust.
And the light would die.
But the tower would still stand.
Dark as the night.
After the Fall.
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I was walking past the Shot Tower in the Melbourne Central Shopping Complex (Victoria, Australia) and stopped, as I often do, to stand and gaze at it.
I realised that if I positioned myself carefully that the spotlight would reflect off one of the windows and give me an intriguing camera flare or two without the need to resort to Photoshop jiggery pokery.
Visually ironic, in the Aussiemandias Post-Holocaust context, against the pitch black sky visible through the cone's superstructure. Without the daytime blue sky to warm things up in the background I think the stark play of light and shade on the metalwork appropriately sterile.
AUSSIEMANDIAS - THE LAST SHOT
(BEST SEEN LARGE)
Over a century before the Fall the tower was used for the production of lead shot for weapons.
Derelict, it was roofed over and became the nostalgic centrepiece of a shopping mall.
After the Fall, derelict again, it stood ready to outwait the ages.
Silent in the empty space.
Alone in the night the protective cone glowed amidst the glass and concrete canyons of the dark necropolis.
A solar powered spotlight illuminating the tower for long vanished tourists.
The batteries would fail one day.
Or a wire would part.
Or the collectors would become covered with dust.
And the light would die.
But the tower would still stand.
Dark as the night.
After the Fall.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I was walking past the Shot Tower in the Melbourne Central Shopping Complex (Victoria, Australia) and stopped, as I often do, to stand and gaze at it.
I realised that if I positioned myself carefully that the spotlight would reflect off one of the windows and give me an intriguing camera flare or two without the need to resort to Photoshop jiggery pokery.
Visually ironic, in the Aussiemandias Post-Holocaust context, against the pitch black sky visible through the cone's superstructure. Without the daytime blue sky to warm things up in the background I think the stark play of light and shade on the metalwork appropriately sterile.