The beautiful hunchback lampposts at St. Kilda Pier in Melbourne. This is one of my 30 second exposures - a series I am working on. I have always been fascinated by the shapes of these lampposts and wanted to do a sunrise shoot here. Was waiting for the chance to travel to Melbourne and this week I finally managed the shoot. This was one of the shots that have come out well from the shoot. Met an interesting cabbie on the way here - he thought that I was going fishing, since I asked him to take me to the pier. I guess the big tripod bag could pass off for fishing equipment, in addition to the fact that I was probably the only person 'shooting' shooting with tripod et al there (there was another girl with a digital camera - maybe she posts to Flickr too!). Then he tried to convince me to have a coffee about 500m away from the pier since it was too early to capture the dawn. Being the nice guy he was, he turned off the meter as we were passing the cafes and offered to take me upto the pier and if I changed my mind to bring me back free of charge! These are some of the experiences that make travel so moving. Cheers mate! Melbourne, Australia 2006 Arjun Purkayastha • travel & fine art photography •