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Postby gstark on Thu Oct 20, 2005 4:11 pm

Yep - 32 years young today - Sydney's harbourside, landlocked sailboat.

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Postby Sheetshooter on Thu Oct 20, 2005 4:19 pm

Thirty two years later it is just as big an eye sore as it was the day I shot part of the opening celebrations.

Cheers, - oh, and happy birthday.
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Postby sheepie on Thu Oct 20, 2005 4:36 pm

gstark wrote:Please restrict these types of postings to those where there are at least three "0"s...

At 32, this thing's a 'sprung chucken' ;)

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Postby stubbsy on Thu Oct 20, 2005 5:11 pm

Sheetshooter wrote:Thirty two years later it is just as big an eye sore as it was the day I shot part of the opening celebrations.

Cheers, - oh, and happy birthday.

SS - just goes to show that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. :wink:

I've always found this a wonderful majestic building and am glad that it managed to be built even with the horrendous changes the pollies made to Utzon's vision. It sure beats the hundreds of toasters that populate the rest of the city.

More to the point, I find it superb photographically since the play of light and shade on its sails at different times of the day is so variable.
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Postby Sheetshooter on Thu Oct 20, 2005 7:50 pm

Peter,

Part of my rites of passage as a young news crew operative in the 1960s was the almost daily announcement by Works Minister Davis Hughes in his office in Macquarie Street following the white-anting of Utzon.

Somewhere I still have some old E-2 6x6 trannies I took of the site under construction at night. It was always so difficult to envisage what it was going to be when it was all just vertical acres of pre-formed concrete.
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Postby leek on Thu Oct 20, 2005 8:16 pm

Sheetshooter wrote:Somewhere I still have some old E-2 6x6 trannies I took of the site under construction at night.


Please dig them out & scan them... I'd love to see them Walter...
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Postby gstark on Thu Oct 20, 2005 8:47 pm

As would I

In a similar vein, do you have any of, say, William St (or other Sydney icons) from around that period?
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Postby Matt. K on Thu Oct 20, 2005 8:53 pm

Moi too! I just love that building!
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Postby Glen on Thu Oct 20, 2005 9:04 pm

I love that building, you always know where you are in the world when you see it.

I would be very interested to see any construction shots from that time. Still remember watching the Queen open it on TV
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Postby mdboo on Thu Oct 20, 2005 9:44 pm

Hey gstark, could you post the EXIF (i think thats what its called?)

I would like to know what setting you shot that picture at....

Would be much appreciated :D

ps. im a nublet in training :lol:

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Postby gstark on Thu Oct 20, 2005 11:46 pm

=BlackWater= wrote:Hey gstark, could you post the EXIF (i think thats what its called?)

I would like to know what setting you shot that picture at....

Would be much appreciated :D

ps. im a nublet in training :lol:


A nublet ???


Here's the EXIF:

Model - NIKON D70
DateTime - 2005:05:23 20:58:29
ExposureTime - 4/1 seconds
FNumber - 8
ISO - 200
ExposureProgram - Manual control
MeteringMode - Spot
LightSource - Tungsten
FocalLength - 110 mm
Lens - 80 - 400
ColorSpace - sRGB
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