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Promenade 1 & 2

NeilLNeilL Registered Users Posts: 4,201 Major grins
edited July 2, 2011 in Journeys
I'll start, if I may, at the end.:wink

This is a series shot at the water frontage of a Hobart suburb, Sandy Bay, which is beside the mouth of the Derwent River, about three to four kilometers wide at this point, before it opens into D'Entrecasteau Channel and the Tasman Sea.

The first image was shot late at night, when the area was abandoned. It was a clear, cold and still night (my lens would soon fog up). I had noticed how the swell washing in from the channel broke on this breakwater, it curled along the side like a surf wave. I wonder if the same engineering equations are used to create the surf waves in theme parks. All the walkers, and the kids and dogs that accompanied many of them, the joggers, and the lookers had one by one gone home and indoors. There was just me and my camera. Would, I wondered, the breakwater and the waves also disappear when I at last turned my back on them? Canon 40D and 70-200mm F4L IS USM.

The second shot was taken as the sun settled on the horizon. As you can see the sunset was very pretty, compliments of the Chile volcano.:D Canon 40D and 14mm f2.8L USM.

More to come.





Promenade 1


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Promenade 2


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Comments welcome. :thumb

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    NeilLNeilL Registered Users Posts: 4,201 Major grins
    edited June 18, 2011
    Oh, I have the order a little wrong. <img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/rolleyes1.gif&quot; border="0" alt="" > The first image below should be second above, going backwards from latest to earliest. It's a picture of the skyline looking towards Hobart city from Sandy Bay. On the left is Australia's first legal casino, Wrest Point Hotel Casino, opened in 1973. On the right is the Tasman Bridge, an elegant five-lane bridge crossing the Derwent River. It has a total length (including approaches) of 1,395 metres (4,576 ft), and was opened in 1965. On Sunday 5 January 1975 the bridge was struck by the bulk ore carrier Lake Illawarra<sup id="cite_ref-year_book_0-1" class="reference"></sup> bound up the river for the Electrolytic Zinc Company with a cargo of 10,000 tons of zinc concentrate. It caused two pylons and three sections of concrete decking, totaling 127 metres (417 ft), to fall from the bridge and sink the ship. Seven of the ship's crewmen were killed, and five motorists died when four cars drove over the collapsed sections before the traffic was stopped. Two cars in which there were three people dangled balancing on the edge. <sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"></sup>The depth of the river at this point (35 metres (115 ft) is such that the wreck of Lake Illawarra still lies on the bottom, with a concrete slab on top of it, without presenting a navigation hazard to smaller vessels.

    The second image below is of houses right on the foreshore of Sandy Bay, surely a pretty location. The Australian film actor and 1930s Hollywood star Errol Flynn (1909 – 1959) must have thought so. He became a naturalised US citizen, but was born in Hobart and lived at Sandy Bay.

    More to come.





    Promenade 3


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    Promenade 4


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    Neil
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    theprincereturnstheprincereturns Registered Users Posts: 132 Major grins
    edited June 20, 2011
    I really like #4. Makes me want to sit on the porch of that house and just watch the sunset every night!
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    NeilLNeilL Registered Users Posts: 4,201 Major grins
    edited June 24, 2011
    theprincereturns wrote: »
    I really like #4. Makes me want to sit on the porch of that house and just watch the sunset every night!

    :D

    Thank you for your comment!

    Neil
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    JusticeiroJusticeiro Registered Users Posts: 1,177 Major grins
    edited June 24, 2011
    Colors on #3 are fantastic. I wish it wasn't so far away.
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    NeilLNeilL Registered Users Posts: 4,201 Major grins
    edited June 24, 2011
    ##6 & 7 are looking east, over the mouth of the Derwent River as it enters D'Entrecasteau Channel. #6 looks down the channel, and on the right you can see a small lighthouse, called Blinky Bill. I am trying to find out a little of its history, and I'll post that later. You will also see some gun emplacements. My guess is that they date to WWII. It was expected that the Japanese would try to invade Australia. Darwin had been attacked by aircraft, and on the night of 31 May 1942 there were 5 Japanese submarines 12km off Sydney Harbour. From these a sea plane and three midget submarines were launched. One of the midget submarines became entangled in the boom net across the harbour, and her occupants blew her up. A second entered the harbour and fired torpedoes at the cruiser USS Chicago. They missed the Chicago but one hit the barracks ship HMAS Kuttabul, a commissioned harbour ferry, killing 21 naval ratings. This midget submarine disappeared, its fate a complete mystery until it was discovered by a group of amateur divers off Sydney's northern beaches in November 2006. The third midget submarine to enter the harbour was destroyed by depth-charges before it had fired any torpedoes. There was also a submarine attack on Newcastle, and a Japanese reconnaissance plane had flown over Melbourne. However, back in the 1880s there was a fear of a Russian naval invasion (there had been tension between Britain and Russia), so these emplacements could instead date from that time.

    #7 looks across to the eastern shore of the river and channel. Further east there is Storm Bay and then Tasman Peninsula, and on the east coast of the peninsular, abutting the Tasman Sea, and about 60km south east as the crow flies, are the tallest sea cliffs in the southern hemisphere.

    More to come.





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    Promenade 6


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    Promenade 7


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    Neil
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    NeilLNeilL Registered Users Posts: 4,201 Major grins
    edited June 24, 2011
    Justiceiro wrote: »
    Colors on #3 are fantastic. I wish it wasn't so far away.

    Thanks.

    One day you'll make it here, I'm sure of it!thumb.gifD

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    theprincereturnstheprincereturns Registered Users Posts: 132 Major grins
    edited June 27, 2011
    Love the grass texture in #6. Consider bumping up the exposure on the sky and water a little bit to even the tones. I think that one might work really well as an HDR as well.
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    NeilLNeilL Registered Users Posts: 4,201 Major grins
    edited June 27, 2011
    theprincereturns wrote: »
    Love the grass texture in #6. Consider bumping up the exposure on the sky and water a little bit to even the tones. I think that one might work really well as an HDR as well.

    Appreciate your comments, prince!

    In #6, it was quite dim around that corner masked by hills from the sun which was already below the horizon. The image is made from 3 exposures.

    Neil
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    NeilLNeilL Registered Users Posts: 4,201 Major grins
    edited June 30, 2011
    The walk along the Sandy Bay promenade, on that Sunday evening of memorable colours, has nearly come to an end (in fact its beginningmwink.gif).

    This is the penultimate shot. Hope you like it!





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    NeilLNeilL Registered Users Posts: 4,201 Major grins
    edited June 30, 2011
    This little journey of a couple hundred steps is now over (but the road goes ever onward!). Thanks for looking!





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    Neil
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    jasonstonejasonstone Registered Users Posts: 735 Major grins
    edited July 1, 2011
    I love #3 - just beautiful!!!! thumb.gif
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    NeilLNeilL Registered Users Posts: 4,201 Major grins
    edited July 2, 2011
    jasonstone wrote: »
    I love #3 - just beautiful!!!! thumb.gif

    :D Thanks Jason!

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