7 October 2024
A grey town near a mountain
A very quick 2 night visit to Bright. It was grey the whole time. I just took a handful of photos near the hotel and at dawn on the first day of daylight savings 2024. Photos taken with my 3rd Ricoh GR III, the diary edition, how long will this one last?
The holiday home (not actually a hotel) was along the old rail track that is now a bike path. I have stayed in this area a few times in recent years, either in Beechworth or Myrtleford, the rail trail bike path connects all 3 places.
The Bright museum was across the road from where I was staying, I did not go in due to lack of time. I am playing around with some lightroom / camera profile stuff in some of these photos, this one is lightrooms go at replicating the negative film jpeg simulation on Ricoh cameras. This seems to make the greens desaturated.
I stuck my camera through the fence to take some photos of old train carriages at the museum.
Here is a goods platform from the old goldrush days.
More train carriages. I took exactly the same photo during my Myrtleford trip in December 2022 - see it here
There are a lot of water tanks on hills here. I feel as though the houses in the forest areas on the hills need to be thought of as temporary, the next fire will destroy everything, again, except the water tank.
Next morning at dawn, and it is damp and very grey.
Despite the rain I wandered down to the local river by the caravan (trailer) park. It is school holidays and there area lot of people staying here, but at this time and in the cold and rain it is very quiet. In summer the river is full of people and there is even a water slide that pumps water up out of the river and you slide down into it or something like that. For this show I used lightrooms camera positive film profile for Ricoh raw files, which is contrasty and saturated, but does not really appear so here.
And for the final pic from this short trip, the same river in the opposite direction. Also camera positive film. I am not sure I like these film sim profiles, I think I will stick to adobe standard or adobe landscape crank up the shadows to induce HDR style clown vomit.