Bec Winnel :: Art and Illustration

AROUND MELBOURNE…

1. Jono, my little bro, waiting for me after work, Queen’s Lane. 2. Near my Coin Laundry, just off Rathdowne Street. 3. Bourke Street Mall… pretty dark and underexposed, but I kinda like the pattern from the roof. 4. Audrey taking a nap.

FROM MY RECENT TRIP TO WANGARATTA…

1. V-Line train at Southern Cross railway station. 2. Looking out the window from the train.

1. Got off the train at Seymore, have to transfer to Coach for the rest of the journey to ‘Wang’. I thought this Granny was cute, finishing off her ice cream before she hoped on. 2. For those who don’t want to walk across the road, from the train station to the coaches, there is a little golf buggy like service.

1. Looking out the window of the coach in Seymore. 2. Wangaratta’s main street.

1. Wangaratta Art Gallery, this is where I went for the EXIT 09 Graduate Exhibition. 2. As the sign says, the Wangaratta Mosonic Centre. I like this old building.

1. Luke and me. Luke and I went to school together. He now teaches at Wangaratta TAFE. 2. Me and Don. Don was one of my teachers.

1. Pretty roses. The white rectangle is actually a sticker. The people who developed my film put it over a negative :( 2. The motel room I stayed the night it.

Overall these images are very green and or blue and rather underexposed! But, it’s pretty hard to adjust the Dian Mini as it only has two appeture settings… ’sunny’ or ‘cloudy’. As my brother said, Slide Film is very sensitive to exposure. Guess I just have to learn whether the light around me would work well or not when using slide film!

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Last weekend was a rarity… the sun was out in Melbourne! It inspired/motivated me to go into the city and take some snap-shots of some of the things I love about Melbourne. I can’t believe I have lived here for over 3 years and these are the first images I have! I really like black and white for photos, must-take-more!

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1. Mannequin at Forever new in Bourke St. 2. Looking into Bourke St Mall. 3. Mannequin in Jeans West (or Just Jeans, always get confused there!) window at Queen Victoria Building.

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1. Love these ‘old-skool’ Women’s and Men’s toilets in Colins St. Seriously, would you go down there? Hmm… light bulb… on my next photography mission list! 2. Melbourne Town Hall in Swanston Street. 3. The iconic Flinder’s Street Station.

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1. The Windsor on Spring Street. Stayed there once, SUCH a gorgeous building outside and in. 2. Audrey Hepburn decal on one window at Melbourne Town Hall. Someone stuck ‘googley’ eyes on her… I thought this was so funny! I was surprised these sticker eyes were not removed, and after about 3 weeks I thought I better get a photo before they take them down (maybe Melbourne City Council thought it was cool too!). Anyway, on Monday I go past on the tram and lo and behold, they googley eyes are gone! Whoo… SO glad I got the photo! 3. Some graffitied bins in Hosier Lane, off Flinders Street.

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1. Street art in Hosier Lane (for you who don’t know, it’s Melbourn’s most popular Graff lane.) 2. Nior’s work in Hosier Lane. 3. Two years ago, Fafi was here for the Curvy book launch. This is what she did in Hosier Lane :) (there is a little bit of text near her that some one has written with a marker and it says something like … ‘Hosier Princess’, well to that effect anyway).

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Left: Me and Charlie. Right: Jay (who is in Vietnam right now).

Scene from a bar in Melbourne, can’t remember its name, but we were sitting out side on a little balcony and this is out view. Think there is about 7 exposures here.

Left: Looking up at  out door heaters at the same bar. Right: Fairy lights and the same bar.

My next lot of films to be developed are one back and white roll and one roll I’m having cross processed in slide chemicals. Looking forward to seeing them.

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Here are the images that actually worked, from my first two rolls of film. Most of them were either over / under exposed. I used the ‘B’ setting (leaves the shutter open for the length of time your finger is on the button) often, so my judgment of exposure time needs some fine tuning! They turned out okay for my first go I think. Much to learn and lots of room for improvement!  I used Fuji Superior Extra 400 speed film and have had them developed normally.

Balloons in our back window. Trav (Maggie’s boyfriend) set them up for her birthday. So sweet!

Maggie’s flowers from her birthday.

Charlie Girl!

Charlie Girl… AGAIN! There will be lots of her hehe.

Looking out my bedroom window.

At the exhibition ‘Flirt” by Kate Lightfoot aka Scarlett. Not sure exactly what is going on here, but it looks interesting I think. Experimented here with the film wound forward a little and exposed three times.

Toilet man… not explaining this one haha, the story is too long!

The view from my office on St Kilda Road.

My tram stop, number 96, looking towards the city. Had the focus on the wrong setting! Durr!

My tram stop again. And again, focus sent on wrong setting!

So, I look forward to taking more photos, it’s lots of fun :)

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