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January 4, 2008

Melbourne has a lawyer's precinct the around Williams/Lonsdale streets area in the CBD, and I happened to be passing when the legal fraternity were gathered outside Melbourne's Supreme Court to celebrate a significant legal event.

lawyers.jpg Gary Sauer-Thompson, lawyers, Melbourne CBD, 2007

I never found out what that legal event was. As I had run out of film and was running late for an appointment I had to move on.

That's street photography isn't. An isolated moment in a world of flux and flows. The moment is plucked out of the flow to stand on its own as an isolated image. The attempt to make sense of a moment - to “think the present historically” as Walter Benjamin put it --- is very difficult. Does an image enable us to do this?

| Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at 11:09 PM | | Comments (5)
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I like those public space type shots that are a snapshot of human activity. One of my favourite photographs that I took, even though it isn't well composed and is grainy, is the San Mateo karaoke bar one for the same reasons. You can go from face to face and wonder what they are thinking.

Cam,
yes I agree. I should do more street stuff. I find it hard to get in close to people.
I wish that I had hung around this event to find out what the significant legal event was. I over heard remarks about 'historic'.

i agree with Cam, though i do really like your landscapes and streetscapes as well. i also enjoy your personal interiors/portraits (and your dogs always make me smile).

as to the lawyerly event, they all look as if they were just given a payrise.

They wear those costumes so they stand out from their clients.
My first time here, and I just read your profile.
I will however, need a snack-break before I embark on your links list.
Forgive me if you have posted on this somewhere I have not seen, but-

If you happen to need to travel between ADE and CAN on the weekend of Feb 2nd,
it would be great if you could go via MEL and
drop in to Ampersand Duck's Blogger Meet.
At lunchtime in the
Melb Botanic Gardens.
Her blog will have more details. Hope to meet you there.

Anne,
I'd love to come. I see that the first meeting of the 42nd Parliament will be held on Tuesday, 12 February 2008. The House of Representatives will sit from 12 to 22 February, 2008. That will determine when I'm in Canberra next.

It's not likely that I will make Melbourne for Ampersand Duck's Blogger Meet unless a business trip comes up. None on the horizon, so far.

As for the costumes---do they need to wear the wigs in a public space as distinct from a Court room? They don't Adelaide from what I've seen.