Nice photos Yuri, good of him to lend you the camera!!

Regards,

Peter Bruce.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Yuri Sos" <steam4me>
To: <TramsDownUnder>
Sent: Monday, March 08, 2010 11:10 PM
Subject: [TramsDownUnder] Dad's Taxi - this weekend

> My son let me borrow my camera for the weekend (gotta hate year
> 12 photography!), so I threw it into the car.... just in case!
>
> Saturday, 6 March 2010
>
> Just after dawn at the Queen Victoria Market, a gaggle of
> balloons floated overhead, breathing fire into their canopies.
> One had seemed to be having trouble clearing the Haymarket and I
> stood waiting for a tram to come into shot. Fortunately, 2121
> obliged.
> http://trams.steam4me.net/images/2121_qvm_elizabeth_st.jpg
>
> Sunday 7 March 2010
>
> I've grumbled here how I've not seen a new colour schemed A or B
> in the flesh. Whilst performing Dad's Taxi duties returning from
> a quarter final cricket match (my son's U12 team won - he scored
> 2 for 5 bowling and caught another, so he was happy), I spotted
> my first new liveried tram (2010) in Clarendon Street. I only
> got ahead of him at Albert and Kerferd Road and pulled up to get
> the turning shot when, lo and behold, 2037 ALSO in new livery,
> rolled city-bound past 2010. I'm chuffed - the first time I see
> the new livery, I get a double-dose.
> http://trams.steam4me.net/images/2037_2010_Albert_Canterbury_Rds.jpg
>
> I then moved to Mills and Danks Streets, but 2010 was right
> behind me as I abandoned my car in Danks Street. The tram
> paused, the driver waved me forward, I got the shot, "thanks,
> mate", hope you're a TDUer - enjoy.
> http://trams.steam4me.net/images/2010_Mills_at_Danks.jpg
>
> Monday 8 March 2010
>
> Today, Monday, I'm driving #2 son to work at Macca's when I spy a
> bumblybee crossing City Road in Clarendon Street. Unusual, me
> thinks. I throw #2 son out at his workplace and catch up to 5111
> turning into Mills Street. I get ahead and position myself at
> Mills and Danks Streets and get a shot of 5111 under the only
> patch of cloud in Melbourne at that time.......
> http://trams.steam4me.net/images/5111_Mills_Danks_Sts.jpg
>
> A quick run down Danks and luckily I find a parking spot near the
> 112 terminus. Obligingly, the driver sees me running for the
> shot across Fitzroy Street and waits the extra few seconds I need
> to be in the right spot to record 5111 turning from Park into
> Fitzroy Street. Another nice driver. Thanks, whoever you are.
> http://trams.steam4me.net/images/5111_Park_Fitzroy_Sts.jpg
>
> Yuri
> (a bit verbose with descriptions tonight)
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