Summer nights and ice cream in the backwater of Melbourne's west https://journals.worldnomads.com/stephula/ Sun, 26 Apr 2026 03:28:44 GMT World Nomads Adventures On the outskirts of Melbourne lies a viewing area where young lovers and families gather to watch planes land at Tullamarine airport. It's an odd spectacle: A showy sunset, a truck that should be at the beach and airborne passengers on their way home oblivious to the entertainment below. When I travel I tend to have a love-hate relationship with the feeling of being an outsider. There is something to be said for getting to know the locals but I also find a wonderful rush in observing a place for the first time. New connections flood in. Here, as the local, I tried to ask myself, how can I see things anew? I’m still asking myself this question having just moved to the Netherlands to focus more on photography. In fact, searching for new connections drives much of what I love about travel and documentary style photography. I wonder constantly how to capture the world we live in in a way that has atmosphere and originality -- I recently came across Vivian Maier’s New York photographs and I admire her for this very reason. What a brilliant visual mind! My next photography project will have a Dutch focus and of course, I also have my eyes set on Greenland. My fingers are crossed! https://journals.worldnomads.com/stephula/photos/43116/Australia/Melbourne-Ice-Cream Travel Australia stephula https://journals.worldnomads.com/stephula/photos/43116/Australia/Melbourne-Ice-Cream#comments https://journals.worldnomads.com/stephula/photos/43116/Australia/Melbourne-Ice-Cream Thu, 4 Jul 2013 23:38:00 GMT 0