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As a Scot I make no apology for the tartan and shortbread image of a great deal of my shots and this selection covers this in it's entirety!! I'm sure however many may delight in the colour and pageantry of this wonderful occasion. The occasion was a display for Her Majesty the Queen's Diamond Jubilee also the celebration of Perth's newly awarded City Status. Many Pipers travelled far and wide to join this display, (1,000 Pipers) the sound of the mass pipes was truly amazing!! a dream of a day. Enjoy my photographs please!! respect my copyright email if you wish to use them.To all the wonderful people captured in these shots THANK YOU FOR A MAGICAL DAY x
Indian batsmen Umesh Yadav (L) and Virat Kohli (C) shake hands with Australian player Nathan Lyon (R) after Austrlalia won the third cricket Test match at the WACA ground in Perth on January 15, 2012. IMAGE STRICTLY RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE-STRICTLY NO COMMERCIAL USE AFP PHOTO / Tony ASHBY (Photo credit should read TONY ASHBY/AFP/Getty Images)
Rushed photos taken during business trip to Perth
The Hyatt Regency is a huge monolithic structure that looks a bit like a sterile Hogwarts inside.
(See here for some information about the history of distilling in Perth; incomplete; I suspect Spalding & Stewart took over McLaren's line, later on, based on the fact they ended up selling a product with the same name as one of his, at some point. (BTW, I very much doubt the 'Scotch' made at the Perth Distillery tasted anything like Scotch, not being aged at all... Oh well. No idea if Spalding & Stewart did any better, either...))
Perth Museum; Perth, Ontario.
Perth Water Works (former), Marshall Place, Perth, 1830-32.
Now the Fergusson Gallery.
John MacMillan Marshall.
John Duncan Fergusson (1874-1961).
Oil on canvas, 1903.
Fergusson painted this portrait of his friend John MacMillan Marshall in 1903, when Marshall was studying to become a doctor in Edinburgh.
John Duncan Fergusson (1874-1961) was one of the most important and influential artists in Britain in the first half of the 20th century. Born in Edinburgh, with ancestral links to Perthshire, he spent much of his career in France and is now most associated with the Scottish Colourist group. The Fergusson Gallery holds his vast collection of artwork and associated archive, along with the archive of his lifelong companion, the pioneer of modern dance, Margaret Morris.
The collections were gifted in two major donations; the Fergusson Collection was donated by the J D Fergusson Art Foundation in 1991, following which the Margaret Morris Archive was gifted in 2010.
The Gallery is housed in the former Perth Water Works of 1832. It is one of Scotland's most significant industrial buildings and is the earliest identified example of a large scale cast-iron building in Scotland. It may be the very first in the world. Occupying a critical corner site at one of the main entry points to the city, its rotunda with dome and tall engine house chimney is visible from many vantage points, providing the city with one of its most distinctive landmarks.
The Water Works was built to designs by Adam Anderson, the rector of Perth Academy. Clean water was drawn from filter beds at Moncreiffe Island in the Tay and pumped under the river by a steam-engine into the tank within the rotunda. It held 146,000 gallons of water producing enough to supply nearly all the town's commercial and residential needs. The buildings became redundant when a new city waterworks was opened in 1965. The original urn atop the engine house chimney was destroyed by lightning in 1871.
It was restored in 1973 for use as a Tourist Information Centre by James Morris & Robert Steedman. The building was further converted to an art gallery for the display of JD Fergusson's works and other temporary exhibitions in 1992. The dome was reconstructed by Bell Ingram Design in 2003 as part of a £1 million restoration funded by The Heritage Lottery, Historic Scotland and Perth & Kinross Council to safeguard its national significance as a key monument to Scottish water engineering.
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Flame of Remembrance and Pool of Reflection.
I have decided to take a walk about each Friday. With the hope of developing my camera eye. So of course my walk involves taking the camera.
Today I walked up to Kings Park (Perth, Western Australia). My intention was to develop my bird camera technique today. As I am just starting out most of the pictures are of empty trees. Oh well.
Did manage to get a couple of crows in focus see later. I think this is because they abundant and slow, relatively speaking.
Anyway also walked up to the state memorial precinct and snapped this shot of the Flame of remembrance and pool of reflection.
If you are ever in Perth – Kings Park is a must to visit during the day and night.
Shutter Speed 1/250
Aperture 13.0
ISO 250
Focal 250mm