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The only disappointment with the otherwise great Ingham County Fair midway was that they had a very small carousel and would not allow adults to ride it.
New lens: Sigma 30mm F/1.4
After many days of searching, I finally found this lens at Calumet which is a new store on Drummond Street, London (near Euston Station). They don't have a catalog instore but they say you can browse their products online.
I bought it because I like taking pictures in dim light but I don't like carrying a Tripod with me all the time. I also wanted to train my eye to pick out compositions suitable for a given focal length rather than zoom in or out all the time.
The lens is "permanently" fixed to my camera for the next few days.
More information from Philip Greenspun
The Bushenell Park Carousel was up and running, offering rides for a buck a person, so we handed over our two dollars and took a couple of horses for a spin.
This carousel was designed and manufactured in 1914 by Stein and Goldstein--who evidently were big deals on the carousel scene--and is one of only three Stein and Goldstein carousels still running. It has 48 hand-carved horses and two "lovers chariots" spinning around a Wurlitzer band organ, and it still sounds really, really cool. A carousel seems a simple thing in this era of complicated entertainment, but these things are an astounding amount of fun, especially when you didn't expect to be riding one.
Bathurst Winter Festival
www.bathurstwinterfestival.com.au/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carousel
Modern carousels
By the mid-19th century the platform carousel was developed; the animals and chariots were fixed to a circular floor that would suspend from a centre pole and rotate around. These carousels were called dobbies and were operated manually by the operator or by ponies.
In mid-19th century England, the carousel became a popular fixture at fairs. The first steam-powered mechanical roundabout, invented by Thomas Bradshaw, appeared at the Aylsham Fair in about 1861. It was described by a Halifax Courier journalist as:
a roundabout of huge proportions, driven by a steam engine which whirled around with such impetuousity, that the wonder is the daring riders are not shot off like cannon- ball, and driven half into the middle of next month.
Soon afterwards, the engineer Frederick Savage began to branch out of agricultural machinery production into the construction of fairground machines, swiftly becoming the chief innovator in the field. By 1870, he was manufacturing carousels with Velocipedes (an early type of bicycle) and he soon began experimenting with other possibilities, including a roundabout with boats that would pitch and roll on cranks with a circular motion, a ride he called 'Sea-on-Land'.
He soon applied a similar innovation to the more traditional mount of the horse; he installed gears and offset cranks on the platform carousels, thus giving the animals their well-known up-and-down motion as they travelled around the center pole. The platform served as a position guide for the bottom of the pole and as a place for people to walk or other stationary animals or chariots to be placed. He called this ride the 'Platform Gallopers' .
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This picture is part of a series shot on Kodak ColorPlus 200 film and a Kiev 4A 1963 camera
Settings for this shot were not registered (I started doing this later)
The pictures that compose this series are:
1 - Morning glow (flic.kr/p/2qv3ZGi)
2 - I'm spiderman (flic.kr/p/2quWXTt)
3 - Carousel (flic.kr/p/2quWXSS)
4 - Montevideo (flic.kr/p/2quWXSG)
5 - New roads (Nuevos Caminos) is the actual name of the statue by José Belloni (flic.kr/p/2qv3ZFX)
6 - Backlit building (flic.kr/p/2qv4ETF)
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La Ronde amusement park, Montreal
My favorite area in the whole park (and more my speed, than the roller coaster *lol*)
Carousels like this one offer a myriad of photographic possibilies and are a joy to photograph because of the wonderful artwork, intricate carving details, colours and material. Some are better than others in terms of condition, originality, colour and design.
This carousel was truly one of the most unique and innovative I have ever seen. The skill and artistry that went into the carving of each individual animal was just amazing - so colourful and imaginative!There were (along with the proverbial equines) cats, giraffes, lions, tigers, mice, pigs, fish... I wish I could have snapped them all, but I was getting death stares from parents and the ride attendant for holding up the ride, and after embarrassing my daughter and her friend, I quickly snapped a couple of shots, (including the one you see here) and went on my way.
I`ve never seen another carousel quite as original as this one!
Built during expo67, La Ronde is the only remaining remnant from that area. Recently it was sold by the local government to the six-flags consortium.
Web site: www.laronde.com/en/
The earliest known depiction of a carousel is in a Byzantine bas-relief dating to around 500 A.D., which depicts riders in baskets suspended from a central pole. The word carousel originates from the Italian garosello and Spanish carosella ("little battle"), used by crusaders to describe a combat preparation exercise and game played by Turkish and Arabian horsemen in the 12th century. In a sense this early device could be considered a cavalry training mechanism; it prepared and strengthened the riders for actual combat as they wielded their swords at the mock enemies. European Crusaders discovered this device and brought the idea back to their own lands.... A carousel was also a training device for the ring-tilt, consisting of wooden horses suspended from arms branching from a central pole. Riders aimed to spear rings situated around the circumference as the carousel was moved by a man, horse, or mule.This one was on the promenade in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland