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Explore #2
This was the shot that I had planned to upload in response to Nino H's suggested crop. But, I uploaded the wrong shot.
I promise, no more Perth City lights shots........................ atleast, not until the next one!
Highball 231!
The daily afternoon freight rockets past what would have once been a common stop on the Belleville sub at Perth. Just eleven and a half miles outside of Smiths Falls. A couple tracks, water tower and station made up the stop. Many more like it existed back in the day. Just the base of the water tower still remains marking what was once there.
Ferryhill A4 No. 60026 Miles Beevor has just passed Hilton Junction with the "Up Special TPO" on Thursday 4 June 1965. A colourised b/w neg.
Ferryhill A4 60026 Miles Beevor taking the Stirling line at Hilton Junction with the "Up Special TPO". A rescanned neg. 22 August 1964.
Lightning over Perth, Western Australia. This was a storm that came out of the blue on 1st March 2017, and one that was a long time coming. No decent storms in Perth since 2015!
This is a stitched panorama of 5 or 6 images taken within a few minutes of each other.
Trinity Church. Part of old Perth that has not yet been torn down to make way for glass and concrete.
On St Georges Terrace, Perth, Western Australia.
A picture of the apartment tower at the top of Mount street with sweeping views across Perth CBD and the massive Swan river estuary.
A beautiful sunset provides the backdrop as Perth’s skyline reflects in the River Tay. Perthshire Scotland.
Lightning over Perth taken from our balcony. The lightning looks a lot closer than it is. I suspect it was way out over the ocean but it's hard to tell.
Perth is a mining town. Mining is a major source of revenue for Western Australia and hence the state is relatively wealthy and has the highest median household income of any Australian capital city. The picture shows the precinct at the ground floor for one of the major mining companies. This is repeated throughout the city with some lovely grounds
There are close to 250 slips in the harbour completely occupied by sailboats, catamarans, yachts and fishing boats of every description and size. A manmade breakwater surrounds the harbour cutting it off from the winds and high waves of Indian Ocean. This is 1/2 of a 4 shot pano of the entire harbour.
Viewed from the Captain Cook Cruise boat from Fremantle up the Swan River to Perth. With my school friend who was over from the UK visiting her son and his family in Perth. Wonderful catch up :-) photos in comments.
For nearly 40,000 years the area on which Perth now stands was occupied by groups of the Nyoongar people and their ancestors – a fact that has been verified by the discovery of ancient stone implements near the Swan River which have been carbon dated at 38,000 years old.
In December, 1696, three ships in the fleet commanded by de Vlamingh anchored off Rottnest Island and on 5th January, 1697, a well-armed party landed near the present-day Cottesloe Beach, marching eastward to the Swan River near Freshwater Bay. They tried to contact some of the Nyoongar to enquire about the fate of survivors of the Ridderschap van Hollant, lost in 1694, but were unsuccessful. Following this encounter, they sailed north, but not before de Vlamingh had bestowed the name Swan on the river because of the black swans he saw swimming there.
Just over 100 years later, in 1829, Captain James Stirling founded Perth as part of the Swan River Colony. Stirling thought the natural environment around Perth was “as beautiful as anything of this kind I had ever witnessed” and advocated that a colony be established there. The British Government agreed to found the colony as the first free settlement in Australia, and settlers began to arrive in Western Australia in June 1829.
heritageperth.com.au
Stirling officially declared the foundation of Perth, capital of the colony, on 12 August 1829, the date chosen to honour the birthday of the King George IV. The name of Perth was chosen after the birthplace of Sir George Murray, the British Secretary of State for the Colonies.
australiangeographic.com.au
28/365 2018
52 weeks of 2018, week 5, SOOC, straight out of the camera, zero editing.
Note: camera time was 16:12, Queensland time, 2 hours ahead of actual Perth time :-)
Saturday challenge - memories
Old Perth Boys School, St Georges Tce, Perth.
Built circa 1860.
I suspect the door is much more recent.
This is another attempt to re-create the Night Shot of Perth that I took some months back. Unfortunately I managed to delete the High Res image & have been kicking myself ever since.
I do like the way this shot has come out, but wasnt't quite what I was after.
Buggar!
Iʼm tearing up, across your face
Move dust through the light
To find your name
It's something faint
Not yet awake, I'm raised of wake.
I'm halfway through this project! I haven't been on time, but I've made it.
NOTE: I am SO appreciative of everybody's absolutely lovely feedback on this, it's brought me to tears more than once seeing your beautiful comments :,)))) I seriously wasn't expecting this to be so noticed, if anything it's a bit more cliche but wow. Thank you all so so much. :)
I've had an incredible start to 2013. I rang it in with my best friends at college and it was simply magical. So I wanted to create a photo just as dreamlike as that night because I fully believe 2013 is going to be good to me. I tend to reflect, a lot, (what can I say, I used to want to be a writer....) but I did learn a lot about myself in 2012 and it's time I kick my butt into gear and take control of my life and careers. Lately, music has meant quite a bit to me in regards to this. I really love the explanation that Justin Vernon gave to his songs Perth and Beth/Rest, both of which mean a whole lot to me:
'"Perth' is this awakening or this birth. And to relate it to some of the conversation we've been having, it's sort of that moment when you have decided to wake up and take control."
I never would have thought I could tackle this sort of concept and make it realistic enough. But I like this. As much as I adore dark art, I feel like most of my photos have been rather light, airy and vibrantly colored. I guess I tend to photograph and edit brighter, lightheartedly, with a positive feel to make up for every time bad news came my way the past year. Then again that's what photography's like for me. A magical escape, where anything from dreams can become reality. A new world.
Quick editing video here! I also got really bored the night before and made a short video here documenting my workshop with Brooke Shaden over the summer.
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The bay platforms at Perth are occupied by ScotRail Class 158 and Class 170 DMUs on 23rd September 2019.
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www.phoenix-rpc.co.uk/index.html to the Phoenix Railway Photographic Circle.