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Fremantle, Western Australia
This trip down to Freo was mainly to test my 11 year old Sigma 50-500 on the 5Div.
Honestly I expected it to be crap. This lens never worked well with my old cameras (Canon D60, 20D and 40D), back then it was too slow aperture wise and to get a fast enough shutter speed meant going in to Noise City ISO settings.
Add to that wide open it was not a sharp lens, or at least not as sharp as my 70-200 or 300 L lenses (or even the 300 +1.4 TC) and rapidly lost sharpness past about 300.
I did get a few good shots, even some of my favourites, but its keeper rate was so significantly lower than even the old 75-300 kit lens.
It only got kept because of its versatility for street festival shooting, and the fact that just out of warranty it shed most of its rubberised paint and looks like arse, rendering it unsellable
But it kind of makes sense on the 5DIV, the _MUCH_ higher usable ISO settings allow you to stop it down enough to overcome most of the softness (at the expense of any residual shallow depth of field)
and while it's not achieving anything close to optimum results with the 32MP sensor compared to my old 6, 8, and 10 megapixel DSLR's its still not too shabby
The Commissariat Buildings are a group of two buildings in Fremantle, Western Australia, which, with construction having begun in 1852, are one of the first sites built using convict labour in the Swan River colony.
They were originally built to serve a commissariat function, storing the food, clothing and building supplies of the colony.
In the 1970s the W A State Government funded the conversion of the buildings into the Western Australian Maritime Museum shipwreck galleries.
For Thursday Doors.
An incident in Fremantle where an old building collapsed. All the emergency personnel came to the scene!
Waterspout dropping from the back of a blustery storm cell, seen off Fremantle's South mole on Saturday 22nd June www.cloudtogroundimages.com
Fremantle è stato riconosciuto come l'esempio meglio conservato al mondo di un paesaggio urbano portuale del XIX secolo.
L'intero West End di Fremantle, compresi più di 250 edifici, è stato dichiarato patrimonio dell'umanità , il luogo più grande ad essere aggiunto al Registro statale dei luoghi del patrimonio.
Il ministro del Patrimonio Albert Jacob ha dichiarato:
"Il West End di Fremantle è un raro esempio di quartiere degli affari di una città portuale altamente intatto ed è particolarmente degno di nota per la sua impressionante varietà di edifici dell'epoca del boom dell'oro.
Comprende ex banche, pub, hotel, magazzini, attività di import-export e compagnie di navigazione che parlano della sua eredità marittima."
Fremantle has been recognised as the best preserved example of a 19th century port streetscape in the world.
The entire West End of Fremantle, including more than 250 buildings has been heritage-listed, the largest single place to be added to the State Register of Heritage Places.
Heritage Minister Albert Jacob said:
"Fremantle's West End is a rare example of a highly intact port city business district and is particularly notable for its impressive variety of gold boom era buildings.
It includes former banks, pubs, hotels, warehouses, import-export businesses and shipping companies that speak to its maritime heritage."
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Fremantle, "Western Australia"
Round House cannon.
Dal 1900 al 1937 un cannone ad Arthur Head ha sparato all'una precisa, insieme al lancio di una "palla del tempo", per consentire alle navi ormeggiate al largo di verificare l'impostazione del loro cronometro.
La pratica terminò nel 1937 quando fu sostituita dai segnali radio.
La tradizione fu ristabilita nel 1988 per il divertimento dei visitatori di Fremantle.
Round House cannon.
From 1900 until 1937 a cannon at Arthur Head was fired at precisely one o’clock, in conjunction with the dropping of a ‘time ball’, to enable vessels moored offshore to verify the setting of their chronometer.
The practice ended in 1937 when it was superseded by radio signals, but the tradition was re-established in 1988 for the enjoyment of visitors to Fremantle.
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An incident in Fremantle where an old building collapsed. All the emergency personnel came to the scene!
Stazione ferroviaria di Fremantle.
La stazione originale fu aperta in Cliff Street il 1 marzo 1881 come capolinea della ferrovia orientale per Guildford via Perth.
Con l'estensione della ferrovia orientale, la sua importanza crebbe, diventando un importante hub per i minatori d'oro che arrivavano nell'Australia occidentale via nave e poi viaggiavano verso Yilgarn e i giacimenti auriferi orientali quando la linea fu aperta a Kalgoorlie nel 1896.
Nel 1907, una nuova stazione e scali di smistamento furono istituiti 300 metri a nord-est sul sito delle ex officine ferroviarie di Fremantle per servire meglio il porto di Fremantle di nuova costruzione.
La stazione fu progettata da William Dartnall, ingegnere capo delle linee esistenti del dipartimento ferroviario nel 1905.
La stazione è stata classificata dal National Trust nel 1974 ed è entrata nel Registro dei luoghi storici dell'Heritage Council of Western Australia nel 2001.
Fremantle railway station.
The original station opened in Cliff Street on 1 March 1881 as the terminus of the Eastern Railway to Guildford via Perth.
As the Eastern Railway was extended its importance grew, becoming an important hub for gold miners arriving in Western Australia via ship and then travelling to the Yilgarn and Eastern Goldfields when the line opened to Kalgoorlie in 1896.
In 1907, a new station and marshalling yards were established 300 metres to the north-east on the site of the former Fremantle Railway Workshops to better service the newly constructed Fremantle Harbour.
The station was designed by William Dartnall, Chief Engineer of Existing Lines of the Railway Department in 1905.
The station was classified by the National Trust in 1974 and entered into the Heritage Council of Western Australia's Register of Heritage Places in 2001.
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Fremantle è stato riconosciuto come l'esempio meglio conservato al mondo di un paesaggio urbano portuale del XIX secolo.
L'intero West End di Fremantle, compresi più di 250 edifici, è stato dichiarato patrimonio dell'umanità , il luogo più grande ad essere aggiunto al Registro statale dei luoghi del patrimonio.
Il ministro del Patrimonio Albert Jacob ha dichiarato:
"Il West End di Fremantle è un raro esempio di quartiere degli affari di una città portuale altamente intatto ed è particolarmente degno di nota per la sua impressionante varietà di edifici dell'epoca del boom dell'oro.
Comprende ex banche, pub, hotel, magazzini, attività di import-export e compagnie di navigazione che parlano della sua eredità marittima."
Fremantle has been recognised as the best preserved example of a 19th century port streetscape in the world.
The entire West End of Fremantle, including more than 250 buildings has been heritage-listed, the largest single place to be added to the State Register of Heritage Places.
Heritage Minister Albert Jacob said:
"Fremantle's West End is a rare example of a highly intact port city business district and is particularly notable for its impressive variety of gold boom era buildings.
It includes former banks, pubs, hotels, warehouses, import-export businesses and shipping companies that speak to its maritime heritage."
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Fremantle, WA, Australia
It was very hot. Really want to go into the sea but we were armed with visitor clothes. =(
Monument Hill is the site of Fremantle's War Memorial complex. It provides fine views over the city and harbour.
An incident in Fremantle where an old building collapsed. All the emergency personnel came to the scene!
An incident in Fremantle where an old building collapsed. All the emergency personnel came to the scene!
If you were an inmate at the Fremantle Prison (before it closed in 1991) this is view you would see of the outside world throught the gates, near the main prison block
An incident in Fremantle where an old building collapsed. All the emergency personnel came to the scene! This was a "strange" woman and her dog. She asked everyone the same question and the dog kept trying to hump peoples legs!
Fremantle Prison was a maximum security gaol closing in 1991. The reason for its closure was the fact the the cells did not have toilets. Inmates were expected to use a bucket for a toilet. After its closure in 1991 it took one year to remove the stench from the cells. It was then listed as national heritage and started operating as a tourist venue in 1992.