23/12/2024Taswegian1957

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Colourful Buildings


Dan is continuing the theme of buildings this week so I have chosen these from my archives. Architecture is one of my favourite photography subjects so I have plenty of pictures of buildings.

Colorful Buildings — CFFC

While it’s not exactly a building the entrance to Sydney’s Luna Park is certainly colourful.

The famouse face of Old King Cole, Luna Park, Sydney
The famous face of Old King Cole, Luna Park, Sydney
T.J Cane, former Ironmongers store, Elizabeth St Hobart

A trio of colourful buildings on Elizabeth Street in Hobart.

Maker’s on Church St, Geeveston
Burnie Tasmania
The Art Deco Shop

Art deco buildings in Napier, New Zealand. These were built around 1934 after an earthquake devastated the area, destroying most of the town centre.

Wooden house near Lake Baikal, Siberia 1990

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Taswegian1957

I was born in England in 1957 and lived there until our family came to Australia in 1966. I grew up in Adelaide, South Australia, where I met and married my husband, David. We came together over a mutual love of trains. Both of us worked for the railways for many years, his job was with Australian National Railways, while I spent 12 years working for the STA, later TransAdelaide the Adelaide city transit system. After leaving that job I worked in hospitality until 2008. We moved to Tasmania in 2002 to live in the beautiful Huon Valley. In 2015 David became ill and passed away in October of that year. I currently co-write two blogs on WordPress.com with my sister Naomi. Our doll blog "Dolls, Dolls, Dolls", and "Our Other Blog" which is about everything else but with a focus on photographs and places in Tasmania. In November 2019 I began a new life in the house that Naomi and I intend to make our retirement home at Sisters Beach in Tasmania's northwest. Currently we have five pets between us. Naomi's two dogs,Teddy and Brodie and cats, Tigerwoods and Panther and my cat Polly.

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  2. I remember my visiting Napier in 2010 when I sent to NZ to see my brother. He lived much further north, but I had become friendly with a business acquaintance who had returned to her homeland and invited me to stay with her for a week. I loved Napier……….. and experienced a few little tremors!

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    • We stopped there on our firsts cruise and loved it. I am so glad that they have not tried to modernise the city. I would love to see more of New Zealand. If it were not for the earthquakes I could happily live there.

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