Melbourne has become a familiar escape from Adelaide: a faster city with quieter landscapes beyond its streets. These two frames sit at different edges of that experience—one above the suburbs in the Dandenong Ranges, the other close to a single figure beside the water at St Kilda.
Above the city
In January 2025, the camera looked out through gum trees toward the suburbs below. A narrow track drops through the foreground; warm light catches grass and trunks on the right; the distance fades into a pale haze. The view is expansive, but the trees keep it framed.
St Kilda at sunset
On New Year's Eve 2024, a person in a red-and-black hood stands at the right edge, looking upward beside the water. Behind them, shallow waves cross the beach while a low pier, marina masts, and small lamps gather along the horizon. The human figure—not the skyline—is what gives the evening its centre.
One view is organised by depth; the other by presence. That contrast, more than a checklist of places, is the pair of moods in the title.