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I did a trip into the Perth CBD (downtown) a couple of weeks ago. The Jacarandas were in flower and made a beautiful show in this lovely Perth Street. Mount street leads from the CBD up a steep hill to Kings Park (our botanic gardens).
Australian Pelican floating down Swan River, Perth on a lazy evening. The eyes look like they were painted on while the car was moving - strange.
Sony ILCE-7RM4
FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS
Æ’/5.6 400.0 mm 1/1600 ISO 800
Into the unknown
This photo was taken on a misty Saturday before Christmas. (Images from this day will feature throughout this week.)
While we were at the South Inch, I took a few shots of people making their way along this tree-lined path. They included joggers, dog-walkers and this man on his bike. I like the way I caught him between the trees as he was heading into the mist.
Heading in the mist is probably a good metaphor for heading into a new year, especially this new year!
I converted this one to black and white because it improved the mood of the shot. Maybe I could have framed it a wee bit tighter – to remove the tree at the right edge of the shot.
If you think that this entry is a bit longer than usual, you’d be right. I read an article by Abby Ferguson encouraging photographers to write about their images. So, I’m going to make more of an effort in this area and see how it feels. (No, it’s NOT a New Year’s resolution.)
P103-3468 Taken at: South Inch, Perth, Scotland.
I was passing through Perth Central Train Station. Although it was around 10 am I found many of the train platforms were very quiet. The long lines of the platform with the dark ceilings and rail tracks made for a pleasing frame for the platforms and trains. I have several shots to post in this series.
Of the sparkling wines, the most famous is 'Perth Pink'. This is a bottle with a message in, and the message is BEWARE!. This is not a wine for drinking -- this is a wine for laying down and avoiding.
Nikon d810a
50mm
ISO 6400
f/3.2
Foreground: 5 x 30 seconds
Sky: 12 x 30 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
Hoya Red Intensifier filter
This is a 17 shot panorama of the Milky Way rising above Lake Norring near Wagin, about 2.5 hours south east of Perth in Western Australia.
I was lucky again to have very calm conditions giving me some nice reflections of the sky above. This lake is just south of Wagin and part of a multi lake system and also a popular camping spot with several groups of people camping there this particular night. I also came face to face with one permanent resident of the lake, a Western Ringtail Possum, climbing a dead tree as I walked past. He just stared at me, not bothered at all, probably just curious as, being a nocturnal animal, he perhaps wasn't used to seeing us humans out and about in the middle of the night :)
Perth's central Fire Station.
On the corner of Murray Street and Irwin Street, Perth, Western Australia.
Perth Town Hall.
Corner of Hay Street and Barrack Street. Perth Western Australia.
One of the few buildings built in Perth by Convict labour.
60163 'Tornado' can be seen arriving at Perth with The Great Britain XVII on a leg from Inverness to Newcastle
A very pleasant time in Perth's Rodney Garden included a stroll down to a small weir that crosses part of the River Tay to Moncreiffe Island. This coincided with the passing of ScotRail's 13.40 Glasgow Queen Street to Aberdeen service, the rear of which is captured crossing the river as it heads over the Tay Viaduct.
View of Perth from Kings Park, construction of the Kwinana Freeway. Taken on Kodachrome on 7 Sep 1966.
Just some of Perth's war heroes...
From such a small Perth population of approximately 280,000 (466,000 in the whole of Western Australia 1940), a great sacrifice indeed. They were, of course, mostly volunteers....
Perth War Cemetery. Perth, Western Australia.
The Perth War Cemetery contains 497 war graves, including 16 from World War One and four from the Vietnam War. A Cross of Sacrifice is part of the landscaped area.
The Perth War Cemetery is adjacent to the Western Australian Garden of Remembrance. It was established by the Army in 1942 for those who died on service during World War Two of wounds in the Hollywood Military Hospital after returning from operational areas. The remains of many casualties were also brought in from civil cemeteries and temporary military cemeteries so that they might lie among their comrades.
The cemetery was taken over by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission in February 1949. The writing desk in the Records Building at the main entrance was the gift of the Government of Western Australia on behalf of the people of the State. It holds the register of those buried or commemorated in the cemetery, and the visitors' book. In this building, too, is the Western Australia Cremation Memorial commemorating seven members of the Australian Forces who were cremated at Karrakatta Crematorium
Sulzer type 2 class 26 no. 26043 is pictured at Perth in 1992. The loco, built by the Birmingham RCW Co. entered traffic as D5343 on 2 October 1959 at Haymarket, Edinburgh. Retiring from service in January 1993, it survived into preservation, owned by the Cotswold Main Line Locomotive Group and is resident on the Gloucestershire & Warwickshire Railway.
Perth Bridge (also known as Smeaton's Bridge, locally, the Old Bridge and in the local dialect of Scots, "the Auld Brig") is a toll-free bridge in the city of Perth, Scotland. It spans the River Tay, connecting Perth, on the western side of the river, to Bridgend, on its eastern side, carrying both automotive and pedestrian traffic of West Bridge Street (the A85). It is a Category A listed structure.
The bridge was completed in October 1771, which places it in the Georgian era; however, its plaque states the year in which construction began, 1766, as its "built" date. The engineer of its construction was John Smeaton, after whom the bridge is named.