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Block Arcade
Melbourne Victoria Australia

Designed by architect David C. Askew and completed in February 1892, the Block Arcade is similar in style to the Milano Galleria Vittorio Arcade in Italy. The Block Arcade, which connects Collins Street with Little Collins Street, is on the Victorian Heritage Register (nº H0032) and is deemed to be "of social and historical importance as the grandest and most fashionable amongst what became an extensive network of [Melbourne] retail arcades."

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.

© Dirk HR Spennemann 2012, All Rights Reserved

Spending time…
Browsing-Walking-Reading-Contemplating-Talking

Seen in the Block Arcade
Melbourne Victoria Australia

Designed by architect David C. Askew and completed in February 1892, the Block Arcade is similar in style to the Milano Galleria Vittorio Arcade in Italy. The Block Arcade, which connects Collins Street with Little Collins Street, is on the Victorian Heritage Register (nº H0032) and is deemed to be "of social and historical importance as the grandest and most fashionable amongst what became an extensive network of [Melbourne] retail arcades."

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.

© Dirk HR Spennemann 2012, All Rights Reserved

Fielding at the Boundary

Local Cricket Match, Edinburgh Cricket Club (14 Jan 2012)
Heidelberg District Cricket Association

W.T. Peterson Community Oval
Edinburgh Gardens
Fitzroy North
Melbourne, Victoria
Australia

Image taken with a Widelux F7 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.

© Dirk HR Spennemann 2012, All Rights Reserved

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

It looks like it was put on drums and moved there by the owner for a sale to be sold and moved off site, and that just never eventuated...and so it just stands there, slowly decaying. Parts of the roof is so unstable that it can collapse any time. View of rear of building in December 2011, compare with February 2009.

Image taken with a Widelux F7 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.

© Dirk HR Spennemann 2012, All Rights Reserved