Saturday morning saw Trav and I meet up in the city for what turned out to be a very long day of shooting. Since Trav’s camera battery had exhausted itself on our last shoot, we left off from last time. The night before, I had reminded Trav to charge his camera, and when looking at mine, decided it didn’t need a charge (what’s the deal with having the meter go directly from “full” to “charge me now“, anyway?).

We walked down and around for a couple of hours before deciding to have breakfast. We ate at a place that claimed to have great juices and smoothies; I ordered a bacon/egg toasted sandwich and Trav ordered a large cooked breakfast (no beans!). Both came with a freshly-made “South American” juice concoction of some sort. The waiter wouldn’t tell us what was in it, and when he brought it out, gave us strict orders not to stir the juice or else. The food wasn’t bad, and the juice was pretty good, even if I did stir it a little near the end of the glass. My palate isn’t great but both Trav and I definitely detected lemon and/or lime juice. That was about as far as our palates took us.

Back to walking and we walked further this time, out of the CBD and down to Southbank, up to Birrarung Marr and back to the CBD while shooting all the while. Deciding to again break for food (another 2-3 hours had passed, oh my!) we ate at a cafe of some sort in Melbourne Central. I had leek and potato soup while Trav ate risotto.

Deciding our legs had done a magnificent job, we both decided to part ways for the day. For some reason, after looking at the photos I took, I must not have been in “the groove” on Saturday since I only ended up with 150 or so (after deleting the ones during the five hours we were walking). Of those, I don’t think there are too many winners, either. Normally on a walk of that duration, I would have way more shots and usually be trying to decide between a multitude of great shots. Not so from this shoot. I think I might have been having too good a time shooting the breeze instead of things in front of me.