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Newstead Street Photography – August 16, 2025

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Newstead Photo Walk: Mannequins, Flowers, and Reflections

Another walk through Newstead, chasing light, shadows, and reflections.
The same themes keep returning – car dashboard decorations, mannequins in shop windows, flower arrangements both fake and real. What shifts is the atmosphere: sunlight caught in glass, shadows stretching across walls, small figures framed in car interiors, or storefront reflections bending reality.

This walk was about looking twice – at the things staged for display, and at the incidental layers that only appear when seen through a pane of glass.

Selected prints from my Newstead walks are available for purchase.
Please get in touch through my contact form for enquiries.

Palm tree reflections in a car windscreen sunshade, Newstead street photography in black and white.
Car reflection with a toy tiger character visible inside, Newstead urban photography in black and white.
Artificial fabric flowers arranged in a cluster, a monochrome still life captured in Newstead.
Pikachu figurine on a car dashboard, photographed in shadow and light, Newstead black and white street photo.
Vase of real Lily flowers in a shop window, with glass reflections layered over, Newstead monochrome street photo.
Orchid plant with strong window shadows across a wall, interior photographed in Newstead.
Mannequin in sunglasses and layered necklaces, Husk on James Street shopfront in black and white.

If you’d like to see more mannequins from Newstead and other Brisbane shopfronts, visit the Mannequins Journal entries.

Klemenza shop window reflections with circles of light, abstract street photography from Newstead.
Category: Urban photography
Style: Documentary photography
Subject: Newstead streetscape
Medium: Black and white photography
© Tahnia Roberts, 2025
Tahnia Roberts

Author Tahnia Roberts

I explore and document urban and natural environments, often focusing on reflections, shadows, and patterns. My camera walks allow me to capture found objects and scenes that tell stories through everyday details. In my journal, I share these explorations and offer a glimpse into my process.

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