October 1995 - Brisbane City Botanic Gardens, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

IMAGE INFO

- Viewpoint is looking south from the western-most path, adjacent to Main Drive & QUT.

- See link to a Jul 2018 comparison view from Google Street View:

www.google.com.au/maps/@-27.475967,153.0290322,3a,90y,251...

Note the following changes from 23 years earlier:

- A modernised large picnic shelter has replaced the timber/corrugated iron one seen here.

- The massive pine tree still stands, but now with lawn removed from the root line & replaced with mulch.

- The public drinking water fountain still exists.

- The older fashioned path lamp has been removed & replaced with a tall, modern lamp on the other side of the path.

- The palm next to the path has been removed (though the indent in the path paving still remains).

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SOURCE INFO

- Original image was captured using a SEAGULL DF-300 SLR camera (an authorized Chinese clone of the Minolta X-300 / X-370), with AGFA XRG 100 color film & a SIGMA 28-200mm f3.5-5.6 Compact SLR Aspherical Hyperzoom Macro lens.

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PROCESS INFO

- Digitized using a Canon Canoscan 8800F scanner.

- Scanned image quality significantly enhanced by reducing film grain & improving sharpness using Topaz Gigapixel AI software.

- Image accent, colour density & balance enhanced with Skylum Luminar Neo AI software.

- Final fine image adjustments made with Adobe Photoshop CS (Windows).

- Image size = 5275x3515px [18.5MP].

Done