Melbourne City was transformed last night.
Crowds swarmed through streets and laneways with smartphones, selfie-sticks and camera tripods. Heads tilted upward, we stood suspended between reality and fantasy as iconic Melbourne buildings transformed into canvases of light.
Lilly enjoying the light show!
‘White Night’ Melbourne, is a festival of light, art and visual performance. The event started in Paris in 2002 as ‘Nuit Blanche’, an all-night festival celebrating contemporary art. Melbourne was the first Australian city to join the global event and the night now attracts 500,000 people into the CBD to experience one night of abstract projections. Colourful art turns the concrete and mundane into a surreal landscape of colour and images leaving you feeling like you’ve just experienced a vibrant lucid dream.
Setting up my FujiFilm XT-2 at White Night
Similar to the Vivid Festival in Sydney, the night is a great photo opportunity for night photography using a long exposure to blur crowds and capture the colour of the light displays. Here’s my gallery for this year.
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