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Commemorates the first coroner of the borough John Birt Davies, who held the office for 36 years.
The clocktower in Five Ways is Grade II listed, and is in front of 60 Calthorpe Road.
Late C19. Iron. Square box with Gothic-style blank tracery to each face. On it a column with a 'capital' sweeping out to carry the clocktower, each face of which is beneath a little pediment. Finial at the top.
Victorian Alpine Huts survey, for Parks Victoria 1994-5.
This hut is located on Grazing Block 25 which was held by HB Duane around 1900 followed by FA & PH Howman of Eskdale in the 1920s who were later joined by JK Kelley{ 1092/121}. L Prichard of Mitta Mitta had it in the 1930s when the lease boundaries were disputed with adjoining leaseholder, Maddison. Maddison & Neilson took the block in 1934-5 but Prichard & Hodgkin won it back in the following year. Hodgkin & Yea of Eskdale took it in the early 1940s but by then the Soil Conservation Board was undertaking its investigation into erosion in the alps. In 1946 the Bogong High Plains Advisory Committee recommended that all leases be cancelled in the area and reissued with new conditions limiting stock numbers. The limit on this block was suggested at 350 cattle or horses (no sheep allowed) and the tenure was strictly 25 November to 30 April{ ibid. departmental note 9.10.46}. the area was also reduced from 8700 acres to 8100, along with a general redrawing of grazing block boundaries. The Soil Conservation Authority requested GB 24,25 be terminated at the end of 1956-7, allowing a years grace if fencing was carried out on the Eskdale Spur to exclude the Kiewa Scheme catchment. Grazing Block 25 was cancelled October 1957. The Ski Club of Victoria applied in April 1934 to erect a hut on the staircase spur. Its function would be to render a winter ascent of Mt Bogong easier so as to attract `the average ski runner who may consider conditions at the present time too difficult'{ HO 19905 applic. letter 11.4.34}. Except for three one day visits, this mountain has never been skied on' yet the club's members had established that there was `excellent extensive skiing' to be had on the mountain, being the highest point in Victoria. The Lands Department noted that the intended site was held under a grazing licence but otherwise they had no objection although they thought that the Tourist Committee could be consulted{ ibid.}. In July the club (via secretary, Ernest E Tyler) furnished the department with a map which showed the intended site, noting that they had other huts in mind which totalled three and hence hoped that they might achieve some discount on the annual fee of one guinea per hut (one at the top of staircase spur and another larger club chalet in Camp Valley). The club membership was then 500. `We deeply appreciate your action in this matter..members of the club feel sure that Mt Bogong will prove one of the best skiing mountains in the State..' The club journal outlined their plan for the mountain: 1. The placing of a "bivouac" on the Staircase Spur at 4800' 2. The clearance of snow gums from a portion of the spur 3. Erection of snow poles from a position above the "Gap" to Camp Valley. 4. The building of a Club hut in Camp Valley. 5. If it is found necessary at a later date, a second hut could be built on the staircase, "Bogong Gap" 6000 feet.{ Cleve Cole in `The Victorian Ski Year Book 1934', p121f} They were successful but the weather deterred erection of the hut immediately, meaning that the next target date was November 1934, with completion made in March 1935. The choice of site was guided by the hut's builder Walter Maddison and the financing of the hut's construction came from Tawonga residents and `city admirers of the mountain'. The hut was built using a split timber (woollybut) frame and corrugated iron cladding{ Stephenson (1982): 355f}. The snow poles would be next on the program along with the clearing of `a wide pathway' through the snow gums but lack of money would put this back another year. Cleve Cole wrote of this hut's construction as one of the improvements resulting from the Bogong Development Scheme. Cole wrote also of a typical ski journey up the mountain: `The approach to Bogong via the Staircase Spur commences at Tawonga which may be reached by rail to Bright or Wodonga. From the former a car would need to be hired; from the latter a regular mail and passenger service is conducted.' `An early start, say daybreak, should be made when private transport is used, as the 210 miles from Melbourne to Tawonga will take approximately seven hours. At the latter place horses are hired and a five-hour journey along Mountain Creek and up the Staircase Spur, a distance of ten miles, should bring you to the "bivouac" before nightfall. From here, weather permitting, an early start is recommended next day. The climb to the summit ridge, which involves an increase of 1700' in altitude, is sure to prove strenuous, and ample time should be allowed for the journey which will take at least three hours..' A photograph of a hut near this site (c1937) shows a gabled corrugated iron clad hut with a single doorway and a detached timber-framed fireplace at one end{ Stephenson: 217}. It was the scene of many bush-walks and ski tours to the summit of Mt Bogong and the place sought by Cleve Cole, Mick Hull and Howard Michell in August 1936 in their ill-fated journey from the summit. A similar unsuccessful bid was made from the second Bivouac Hut to the summit by Georgine Gadsen, John McRae and Ted Welch in 1943{ Stephenson: 212; Stephenson (1982): 270f}. The first bivouac had been destroyed in the 1939 fires and, being insured, was re-erected March 1939{ ibid. SCV letter 10.5.40}. By then the club had also erected Summit Hut (1938) and Cleve Cole Hut (1938), completing the development of three sites although their intended hut in Rocky Valley had not been built because of the club's interest in acquiring an SEC hut built some two years ago in that location. Cope Hut had been built by the Public Works Department for tourists but they were reluctant to continue maintenance of the hut. The SCV had been made an unofficial managers of the hut. By 1940 they planned another two huts, one at the head of the Bogong Creek and one at Bogong Gap but encountered a new attitude in the Lands Department. The department pointed out that in January 1938, an area had been withdrawn from occupation to serve the SEC's Kiewa scheme. The SCV was dismayed, querying if all hut occupancies were to be withdrawn on the mountain{ SCV letter 13.6.40}. nevertheless, by the late 1940s, the SCV held Bivouac, Summit, Cleve Cole, West Peak and Bogong Gap huts{ LDV note 3.1948}. The second Bivouac Hut was burnt, along with Maddison's (cattleman's hut, thought built 19th century, Camp Valley) and Summit huts in October 1978. Headlines included "Environmental Vandals on the Rampage" and "Alpine Huts Burned Down `Green group blamed'" highlighting the tension which had developed among user groups on the mountain. The claim was made by the Mt Bogong Club secretary, Keith Fizelle: `It appears they have been burned by somebody who does not think the huts should be on the mountain'{ `Sydney Morning Mail' 19.12.78: 3}. Ironically, the club had been seeking a replacement for Summit Hut since 1972 with little success because of the unfortunate precedent created by the erection of Michell Hut{ see HO 31617 SCA letter 27.4.72, submission 9.6.72}. The Lands Department handed over administration of the mountain to the National Parks Service in 1981 and this hut was replaced by the Service in that year{ ibid.: 233; NPS, `Bogong National Park' (1983): 45}. The NPS described the new hut as simple gabled hut 6x3m, clad with timber (treated with fire retardant) but the service had no plans to replace Maddison's or Summit huts{ NPS letter 2.9.80}. At that time it was heavily used by walkers and skiers and an important refuge{ ibid.}. The door and an air lock were at the north-west end and inside was a pot bell stove, the plan measuring 6x3m (actually 5mx3.3m), wall height 2.4m{ ibid.}. Tatnall's photograph shows a gabled hut (shallow pitch) clad with horizontal boarding (?) and equipped with deep eaves{ Tatnall photo #17, SLV}.
I’ve been wanting to take a city break in summer, rather than in the cold months for a while, so rather than heading for the Lake District for a week of toil on the fells when Jayne could get a week off, we took off from Liverpool for Paris. Flight times were nice and sociable but it meant we were on the M62 car park at a busy time in both directions – it’s a shambles! I’ve stopped over in Paris a dozen times – on my way to cycling in the Etape du Tour in the Alps or Pyrenees – and had a few nights out there. Come to think about it and we’ve spent the day on the Champs Elysees watching the final day of the Tour de France with Mark Cavendish winning. We hadn’t been for a holiday there though and it was a bit of a spur of the moment decision. Six nights gave us five and a half days to explore Paris on foot. I had a good selection of (heavy) kit with me, not wanting to make the usual mistake of leaving something behind and regretting it. In the end I carried the kit in my backpack – an ordinary rucksack – to keep the weight down, for 103 miles, all recorded on the cycling Garmin – and took 3500 photos. The little Garmin is light and will do about 15 hours, it expired towards the end of a couple of 16 hour days but I had the info I wanted by then. This also keeps the phone battery free for research and route finding – I managed to flatten that once though.
What can I say – Paris was fantastic! The weather varied from OK to fantastic, windy for a few days, the dreaded grey white dullness for a while but I couldn’t complain really. We were out around 8.30 in shorts and tee shirt, which I would swap for a vest when it warmed up, hitting 30 degrees at times, we stayed out until around midnight most nights. It was a pretty full on trip. The security at some destinations could have been a problem as there is a bag size limit to save room in the lifts etc. I found the French to be very pragmatic about it, a bag search was a cursory glance, accepting that I was lugging camera gear, not bombs around, and they weren’t going to stop a paying customer from passing because his bag was a bit over size.
We didn’t have a plan, as usual we made it up as we went along, a loose itinerary for the day would always end up changing owing to discoveries along the way. Many times we would visit something a few times, weighing the crowds and light etc. up and deciding to come back later. I waited patiently to go up the Eiffel Tower, we arrived on Tuesday and finally went up on Friday evening. It was a late decision but the weather was good, the light was good and importantly I reckoned that we would get a sunset. Previous evenings the sun had just slid behind distant westerly clouds without any golden glory. It was a good choice. We went up the steps at 7.30 pm, short queue and cheaper – and just to say that we had. The steps are at an easy angle and were nowhere near as bad as expected, even with the heavy pack. We stayed up there, on a mad and busy Friday night, until 11.30, the light changed a lot and once we had stayed a couple of hours we decided to wait for the lights to come on. This was a downside to travelling at this time of year, to do any night photography we had to stay out late as it was light until 10.30. The Eiffel Tower is incredible and very well run, they are quite efficient at moving people around it from level to level. It was still buzzing at midnight with thousands of people around. The sunset on Saturday was probably better but we spent the evening around the base of the Tower, watching the light change, people watching and soaking the party atmosphere up.
Some days our first destination was five miles away, this is a lot of road junctions in a city, the roads in Paris are wide so you generally have to wait for the green man to cross. This made progress steady but when you are on holiday it doesn’t matter too much. Needless to say we walked through some dodgy places, with graffiti on anything that stays still long enough. We were ultra-cautious with our belongings having heard the pickpocket horror stories. At every Café/bar stop the bags were clipped to the table leg out of sight and never left alone. I carried the camera in my hand all day and everywhere I went, I only popped it in my bag to eat. I would guess that there were easier people to rob than us, some people were openly careless with phones and wallets.
We didn’t enter the big attractions, it was too nice to be in a museum or church and quite a few have a photography ban. These bans make me laugh, they are totally ignored by many ( Japanese particularly) people. Having travelled around the world to see something, no one is going to stop them getting their selfies. Selfies? Everywhere people pointed their cameras at their own face, walking around videoing – their self! I do like to have a few photos of us for posterity but these people are self-obsessed.
Paris has obviously got a problem with homeless (mostly) migrants. Walk a distance along the River Seine and you will find tented villages, there is a powerful smell of urine in every corner, with the no alcohol restrictions ignored, empty cans and bottles stacked around the bins as evidence. There are families, woman living on mattresses with as many as four small children, on the main boulevards. They beg by day and at midnight they are all huddled asleep on the pavement. The men in the tents seem to be selling plastic Eiffel Tower models to the tourists or bottled water – even bottles of wine. Love locks and selfy sticks were also top sellers. There must be millions of locks fastened to railings around the city, mostly brass, so removing them will be self-funding as brass is £2.20 a kilo.
As for the sights we saw, well if it was on the map we tried to walk to it. We crossed the Periphique ring road to get to the outer reaches of Paris. La Defense – the financial area with dozens of modern office blocks – was impressive, and still expanding. The Bois de Boulogne park, with the horse racing track and the Louis Vuitton Centre was part of a 20 mile loop that day. Another day saw us in the north east. We had the dome of the Sacre Couer to ourselves, with thousands of tourists wandering below us oblivious of the entrance and ticket office under the church. Again the light was fantastic for us. We read that Pere Lachaise Cemetery or Cimitiere du Pere Lachaise was one of the most visited destinations, a five mile walk but we went. It is massive, you need a map, but for me one massive tomb is much the same as another, it does have highlights but we didn’t stay long. Fortunately we were now closer to the Canal St Martin which would lead us to Parc de la Villette. This was a Sunday and everywhere was both buzzing and chilled at the same time. Where ever we went people were sat watching the world go by, socializing and picnicking, soaking the sun up. As ever I wanted to go up on the roof of anything I could as I love taking cityscapes. Most of these were expensive compared with many places we’ve been to before but up we went. The Tour Montparnasse, a single tower block with 59 floors, 690 foot high and extremely fast lifts has incredible views although it was a touch hazy on our ascent. The Arc de Triomphe was just up the road from our hotel, we went up it within hours of arriving, well worth the visit.
At the time of writing I have no idea how many images will make the cut but it will be a lot. If I have ten subtly different shots of something, I find it hard to consign nine to the dark depths of my hard drive never to be seen again – and I’m not very good at ruthless selection – so if the photo is OK it will get uploaded. My view is that it’s my photostream, I like to be able to browse my own work at my leisure at a later date, it’s more or less free and stats tell me these images will get looked at. I’m not aiming for single stunning shots, more of a comprehensive overview of an interesting place, presented to the best of my current capabilities. I am my own biggest critic, another reason for looking at my older stuff is to critique it and look to improve on previous mistakes. I do get regular requests from both individuals and organisations to use images and I’m obliging unless someone is taking the piss. I’m not bothered about work being published (with my permission) but it is reassuringly nice to be asked. The manipulation of Flickr favourites and views through adding thousands of contacts doesn’t interest me and I do sometimes question the whole point of the Flickr exercise. I do like having access to my own back catalogue though and it gives family and friends the chance to read about the trip and view the photos at their leisure so for the time being I’m sticking with it. I do have over 15 million views at the moment which is a far cry from showing a few people an album, let’s face it, there’s an oversupply of images, many of them superb but all being devalued by the sheer quantity available.
Don’t think that it was all walking and photography, we had a great break and spent plenty of time in pavement bistros having a glass of wine and people watching. I can certainly understand why Paris is top of the travellers list of destinations
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Submission for mascot of the week for the Gimme Five Group. Its 05:05 on the 5th, get it?
I never tried such reflective still life before. It is really hard to light. This is one of about 30 failed attempts, but I am learning all the time
Lumen print
Kodak Ektacolor Supra paper preflashed with old negatives
sunny day
4 hour exposure
Scanned Epson V33
Photoshop: levels and curves
Thank You to Photo David for his contribution to Danger Arachnid Studies.
A bit of random spider trivia to brighten your day:
Spiders are found world-wide on every continent except for Antarctica!
Best seen in larger size on dark background - just click the photo.
Test shot with Nikon D700 + Carl Zeiss 100mm f/2 Makro Planar T* lens, ZF.2 mount. Shot at f/2.0
One of the coins that came back with me from India. This is a crop from the actual frame below. This was a hand held macro shot at the minimum focusing distance. Under these circumstances, my technique is to not use the focus ring, but to set it maximum magnification, and move the camera (along with my upper body, lol) back and forth to nail down the focus. Of course, it is necessary to stop breathing for a few seconds to accomplish this.
I did not have good lighting here, so I used the worst possible lighting - the built in flash on the camera. So the lighting is harsh and unflattering, but my priority here was to test focusing.
The Zeiss MP 100/2 is a wonderful lens to photograph “things” – anything big or small that is reasonably static, so accurate focusing and creative composition are possible. Its 100mm focal length provides a very nice reach, its fast f/2 allows available light shooting for natural looks, and its macro capability allows getting very close to the subjects.
I don’t think I’ve had so much fun shooting up a wide variety of “things”, including and not limited to such things as Coffee, Cauliflower, Books, Paintings, Clocks, Sculptures, Rocks, Crystal, Shoes, Pens, Fax machines, ChapSticks, Coins, Watches and Thumbtacks.
LOL – feel free to browse through these random shootings.
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This group participated in the Mardi Gras parade last Saturday. They were VERY good. I was especially taken by the young drummer, so sweet and serious.
This shot was taken after the parade. They did a number on the overhead walkway before saying their goodbyes. HFF!
Artist Ross Ashton premiers his projection piece entitled "Five Windows" during the Hopkins Center 50th Anniversary celebration. (photo courtesy of Ross Ashton)
The Five Points neighborhood gets its name from a 5-way intersection. The old hotel on the left sits at one of the five corners.
A dress rehearsal of Scottish Opera's Five:15 at their rehearsal studio in Glasgow.
www.scottishopera.org.uk/our-operas/09-10/five15-operas-m...
Glasgow, 2010.
High Five
Hibaya
Tokyo, Japan
(March 29, 2014)
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