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Winter light plays with Perth CBD (2 of 2)

Published July 19, 2024 by Pelidoug

Winter light plays with Perth CBD (2 of 2)

Even as a spectacularly distorted reflection on the facade of another, lower and more “glassy” edifice, St Martins Tower is unmistakably itself.

Since we moved to Perth in 1983 many different tenants have “badged” St Martins Tower; as you can see in lower right hand quarter of the above photo, the current logo is that of ICBC – a Chinese bank.

From 1978 to 1988 St Martins Tower (140 metres) was Perth tallest building.

In the much more crowded and taller 2024 skyline, it is #10.

The #1 ranking, however, has remained unchanged for 32 years; Central Park (249 metres) still looks down on all other WA rooftops.

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Winter light plays with CBD (1 of 2)

Published July 17, 2024 by Pelidoug

Winter light plays with CBD (1 of 2)

Architecturally speaking, much of what stands tall in Perth is depressingly typical of what stands tall in just about every other substantial city on “our” planet.

Most post-1960 “towers” are both bland and brutal.

However, Perth’s unusually intense winter light can work “magic”, when combined with the happy fact that “vertical”, “flat” glass panes are hardly ever truly vertical or truly flat.

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Bigger than a Komodo Dragon – South Perth’s “big lizard” weighs 9 tonnes…

Published July 16, 2024 by Pelidoug

Bigger than a Komodo Dragon – South Perth’s “big lizard” weighs 9 tonnes…

…and it’s “companion animal” is a 5.6 tonne numbat!

Together, they make one hell of an “entry statement” – or “exit statement” – for those who travel by ferry to and/or from the South Perth foreshore.

Not coincidentally, South Perth’s major attraction is Perth Zoo, which is within easy walking distance of the ferry station.

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“Landscape” view/ much closer view (#9B in series: Ritz & chips at Betty’s Jetty)

Published May 14, 2024 by Pelidoug

“Landscape” view/ much closer view (#9B in series: Ritz & chips at Betty’s Jetty)

This post’s “much closer view” was also taken from the western side of Perth’s Elizabeth Quay, not many footsteps from where ferries depart for South Perth, or return from there.

For “9A” in this series I had looked east, across the Quay’s artificial inlet.

For “9B”, I turned around 180 degrees.

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“Landscape” view/ much closer view (#9A in series: Ritz & chips at Betty’s Jetty)

Published May 13, 2024 by Pelidoug

“Landscape” view/ much closer view (#9A in series: Ritz & chips at Betty’s Jetty)

The featured image looks east, across Perth’s Elizabeth Quay, at 2. 49 pm on 24 April 2024.

Its official name – bestowed in 2012 by then WA Premier Colin Barnett – honoured the then British monarch.

The name came after the monumentally-expensive development’s first sod had been turned.

More than a few Perth residents prefer to call it “Betty’s Jetty.”

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NOT “bin chickens”: footnote to just-concluded series

Published April 26, 2024 by Pelidoug

NOT “bin chickens”: footnote to just-concluded series

Most Australian humans live in substantial cities.

Until late in the 20th century, ibis were not a “regular part of the urban scene”; urban humans who had seen ibis had usually seen them only when said humans “got out of town”.

Mid-20th century humans did not refer to Australian white ibis as “bin chickens – Threskiornis molucca was yet to “invade” our cities.

Back then, the ibis most familiar to Australians was Threskiornis spinicollis – the straw-necked ibis, aka “the farmer’s friend”.

All ibis pictured in this post are of the farmer-friendly kind, but photographed well within a metropolis.

Many (most, I suspect) city-resident humans who encounter these ibis wrongly assume that they are yet more “bin chickens”.

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Roosting, Lake Monger (“6”, final in series: penthouse suites)

Published April 24, 2024 by Pelidoug

Roosting, Lake Monger (“6”, final in series: penthouse suites)

This little series concludes a few minutes after sundown, looking at some “premium real estate” on the western side of inner-urban Perth’s Lake Monger.

I think the new overnight-roosters have supplanted the immediately-preceding “tenants”: respectively, ibis and corellas.

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Roosting, Lake Monger (“5” in series: corellas too)

Published April 23, 2024 by Pelidoug

Roosting, Lake Monger (“5” in series: corellas too)

This post’s photo was taken only a few seconds after the previous post’s.

As you can see, the “bin chickens” were not the only birds then coming in to roost at Lake Monger.

In recent months corellas have absolutely ravaged previously well-grassed parts of the Lake’s southern shoreline.

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Roosting, Lake Monger (“4” in series: settling in for the night)

Published April 22, 2024 by Pelidoug

Roosting, Lake Monger (“4” in series: settling in for the night)

This post’s photo was taken just after sunset, less than two minutes after the previous post’s.

If I had pointed my camera at the pictured branches a few minutes earlier, they would have been “empty”, and most of the pictured birds would not yet even have flown into our field of view.

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Roosting, Lake Monger (“3” in series: incoming)

Published April 21, 2024 by Pelidoug

Roosting, Lake Monger (“3” in series: incoming)

There is a deal of grace here, too!

Ibis are among more than a few birds which appear “awkward” when on terra firma – or on slushier ground, or enjoying the local tip, sitting atop your roof, or “dealing with” a rubbish bin – but are decidedly elegant, aloft.

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