Hobart - April - 2018

A week in Hobart from April 7 -14.

We stayed in a loft AirBnb with views across Bellerive Yacht Club.

A diver prepares to descend at the Brooke Street Pier.

The Gif is compiled of 134 still frames.
The frames may take time to load.
Each frame was originally a 12mgb image.
The camera was hand held for the duration and shot
through the mesh of a fence.
The original posting has been titled and edited to adjust the timing
and draw out the content of a few frames.

Charles Darwin Walk - along the shores of Kangaroo Bay - Bellerive

Compare this with the early Beattie print below.

19C Beattie Print 

inspired by Uwe Bedenbecker - 'Dialectics of Nature'

The Fort

The front garden of the AirBnb

Over the rooftop from our loft - AirBnb

Mount Pleasant Radio Observatory - Cambridge -  20kms east of Hobart

The wonderful colours of the vineyard
French Provincial restaurant

Picture window view from loft - AirBnb

Boarding the ferry to Bruny Island

 Bruny Island Views

Waiting for the cheese platter

worth waiting for!

Hotel Bruny

A dam with a view

When the dam is full it will provide an infinity pool view from the cottage currently being restored behind.

Dog & bone
The previous property owner shot the wallabies that came onto the property and left the carcasses
in a creek bed. No shortage of bones for poochy.

A bit windy. At the ferry terminal waiting to return.

Self portrait

A 2 car collision in the city of Hobart caused a bottle neck for kms and hours.
This view to Bellerive - our AirBnb - across the waters to
the Bellerive Yacht Club in Kangaroo Bay.  

The snaking traffic can be seen below.

The marina from our AirBnb

Mawson Huts Replica Museum - Hobart

This little fellow migrated from the museum display onto the back of my hand.
Translucent wings with arty face design.

Forever.

In Mawsons Hut - I have a copy of the book
'Photography For Novices - The Primus Handbook', publ:1902

The Windeward Bound
The Windeward Bound SS

Aurora Australis
Australia's Antartic Ship Aurora Australis

The image of the sailing ship below is from a glass plate negative held in my collection.

A friend identified it, subject to confirmation, as the May Queen, and the Port as Hobart.

The May Queen is an historic sailing ship currently moored at the wharf in Hobart as the photos

show.

from the glass plate negative

Historic information plaque alongside the wharf in Hobert

The May Queen SV

- the making of a Lantern Slide Catalogue - but first........

- the making of a Lantern Slide Catalogue - but first........

how to?

A photo tells a story.

1. Copy the slides

OK thats the 'how to'.

2. I am using a Nikon D90, 50mm f1.8D lens

with 12mm extension tube 

the camera is mounted to a base via a 1/4" screw

3. I made a lantern slide carrier

there will be small variations in the

lens to subject distance a stable carrier is required

mine is not fixed to the base

the lens carrier can slide along the base

a mark on the base is the distance

at which the subject is in focus.

3. I use a Nikon SB900 flash on TTl

The camera is set to Aperture Priority f8. 

4. Liveview can be used and auto focus

works OK on the relatively cheap 

extension tube set recently acquired.

5. I bounce the flash off of a white backboard

6. A black card(not shown) rests on the top of the lens

and the top of the lantern slide carrier

this stops flare from the flash to the front of the slide

which is illuminated from the rear by flash bounce 

from the white card. 

So far so good

and now the result

©billpurvis - black card not shown

the lantern slide copy©billpurvis

The lantern slide is reproduced here at 72dpi. 

The full size file shows in detail the 'For Sale' sign on the boat by the fisherman, 

the 'Henry Simpson & Son Coalyard' sign on the far wharf, horse feeding

coal? cart and driver, people outside a hotel etc.

the original slide was produced by:

this is an iPhone photo

A catalogue will be produced by copying the slides and arranging them in sequence.
Gifs will be produced from the sequences which will form the basis of the catalogue.

and the setup can also be used to copy glass plate negatives.
This positive was produced from a glass plate neg.

from a glass plate negative

Some song slides copied.

Disc Cameras - a catalogue - a history - a collection

Disc cameras - a collection.
A catalogue.

Disc cameras - a collection ©billpurvis2018

Catalogue contact sheets:

Transparent Kodak - front

Transparent Kodak - back

Obahn Busway Adelaide Tunnel Entrances Saturday 27 January 2018

A warm 36C in Adelaide today.
My knees were aching for a bike ride.
I cycled in to take some photographs of the new
$160M  Obahn Busway Tunnel opened on
Monday 11 December 2017.
©billpurvis

Buses entering and exiting the Tunnel at the Grenfell Street/East Tce feeder intersection.

The exit from the city along Hackney Road opposite the National Wine Centre and Botanical Gardens.

Goodman Administration Building adjacent to the Old Tram Barn

Goodman Administration Building - Old Tram Barn located Hackney Road

Hackney Road Tunnel Exit/Entrance opposite Goodman Administration Building and the National Wine Centre

Tunnel Entrance/Exit towards Grenfell Street feeder lanes.

from Grenfell Street towards Tunnel Entrance/Exit

Feeding into Grenfell Street after exiting the Tunnel.

The Tunnel Project

Entering the Tunnel after exiting Grenfell Street. The Obahn is a guided busway. The rails are shown in the foreground on either side of each lane.