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Decaying Farm House
Maher's Lane
near Violet Town, Vic, Australia

Image taken with a WIdelux F6B .—camera hand-held —Shot on (unbranded) Ferrania FG Plus 400 film stock. The film was commercially developed in a lab in Albury (NSW) and later scanned with an Epson Perfection V700, using Silverfast Negafix software. Conversion to B&W in CS3 with SilverEfex.

© Dirk HR Spennemann 2012, All Rights Reserved

Royal Arcade,
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

The Arcade was designed by Melbourne architect Charles Webb who won a design competition in1868. Construction on the arcade began in June of 1869 and was completed by May, 1870. The arcade runs between Little Collins Street and the Bourke Street Mall with a 1902 annexe to Elizabeth Street. The arcade originally consisted of 29 shops of various trades including Turkish Baths. In 1892 the automata figures of Gog and Magog were installed at the southern end of the main walkway of the Arcade, flanking Gaunt's Clock.

The Royal Arcade is on the Victorian Heritage Register (nº H0023) and is deemed to be of national significance as it is Australia's oldest surviving arcade and one of of approximately eighteen surviving pre-1870 arcades world-wide.

Image taken with a WIdelux F6B .—camera hand-held —Shot on Kodak Gold 200 stock. The film was commercially developed in a lab in Albury (NSW) and later scanned with an Epson Perfection V700, using Silverfast Negafix software. Conversion to B&W in CS3 with SilverEfex.

© Dirk HR Spennemann 2012, All Rights Reserved

Royal Arcade,
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

A slow turning lens turret sometimes brings up unexpected results...I had hoped the shot came out was as intended..alas not as planned...but it works somehow..

 
The Arcade was designed by Melbourne architect Charles Webb who won a design competition in1868. Construction on the arcade began in June of 1869 and was completed by May, 1870. The arcade runs between Little Collins Street and the Bourke Street Mall with a 1902 annexe to Elizabeth Street. The arcade originally consisted of 29 shops of various trades including Turkish Baths. In 1892 the automata figures of Gog and Magog were installed at the southern end of the main walkway of the Arcade, flanking Gaunt's Clock.

The Royal Arcade is on the Victorian Heritage Register (nº H0023) and is deemed to be of national significance as it is Australia's oldest surviving arcade and one of of approximately eighteen surviving pre-1870 arcades world-wide.

Image taken with a WIdelux F6B .—camera hand-held —Shot on Kodak Gold 200 stock. The film was commercially developed in a lab in Albury (NSW) and later scanned with an Epson Perfection V700, using Silverfast Negafix software. Conversion to B&W in CS3 with SilverEfex.

© Dirk HR Spennemann 2012, All Rights Reserved

Royal Arcade,
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

One can wait and wait to line up shot as much as one likes, there is always someone...as the clock in the background shows it was just 12 noon and all sensible visitors to the arcade, the tourists at any rate, were staring at the automata Gog and Magog going through their motions...and I was planning on have a people free shot, nicely down the barrel...drawing on the black and white checker board floor...alas...

The Arcade was designed by Melbourne architect Charles Webb who won a design competition in1868. Construction on the arcade began in June of 1869 and was completed by May, 1870. The arcade runs between Little Collins Street and the Bourke Street Mall with a 1902 annexe to Elizabeth Street. The arcade originally consisted of 29 shops of various trades including Turkish Baths. In 1892 the automata figures of Gog and Magog were installed at the southern end of the main walkway of the Arcade, flanking Gaunt's Clock.

The Royal Arcade is on the Victorian Heritage Register (nº H0023) and is deemed to be of national significance as it is Australia's oldest surviving arcade and one of of approximately eighteen surviving pre-1870 arcades world-wide.

Image taken with a WIdelux F6B .—camera hand-held —Shot on Kodak Gold 200 stock. The film was commercially developed in a lab in Albury (NSW) and later scanned with an Epson Perfection V700, using Silverfast Negafix software. Conversion to B&W in CS3 with SilverEfex.

© Dirk HR Spennemann 2012, All Rights Reserved

Royal Arcade,
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

The Arcade was designed by Melbourne architect Charles Webb who won a design competition in1868. Construction on the arcade began in June of 1869 and was completed by May, 1870. The arcade runs between Little Collins Street and the Bourke Street Mall with a 1902 annexe to Elizabeth Street. The arcade originally consisted of 29 shops of various trades including Turkish Baths. In 1892 the automata figures of Gog and Magog were installed at the southern end of the main walkway of the Arcade, flanking Gaunt's Clock.

The Royal Arcade is on the Victorian Heritage Register (nº H0023) and is deemed to be of national significance as it is Australia's oldest surviving arcade and one of of approximately eighteen surviving pre-1870 arcades world-wide.

Image taken with a WIdelux F6B .—camera hand-held —Shot on Kodak Gold 200 stock. The film was commercially developed in a lab in Albury (NSW) and later scanned with an Epson Perfection V700, using Silverfast Negafix software. Conversion to B&W in CS3 with SilverEfex.

© Dirk HR Spennemann 2012, All Rights Reserved