Category: Places

Places I’ve lived, places I’ve been to, maybe even some places I would like to go to.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Places People Live

Homes of Hobart

I love walking the streets looking at old or interesting houses I love to photograph them too and I hope their owners don’t mind me sharing these pictures. I don’t photograph local houses as much because it seems a bit cheeky. I know I would think it odd if some random person were standing outside my house taking photographs. Although, if they came and asked me if they could photograph my house for their blog I’d probably say yes.

These old houses are in North Hobart. I like the colour and style of them very much.

A street of terrace houses in North Hobart.
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Terrace Houses

Heading back into Hobart, these apartments at the end of Salamanca Place are in a converted grain silo.

The old grain silos at Salamanca now converted to apartments

If we walk up to Princes park or climb Kelly’s Steps we come to Battery Point.

These houses on Arthur’s Circus in Battery Point are some of the oldest homes in Hobart and are frequently photographed by tourists.

Arthur Circus, some of the oldest houses in Battery Point.
Art Deco apartment building, Sandy Bay

In nearby Sandy Bay, there are many interesting and expensive houses and apartments. This is one that I could not resist photographing because I love this style of building.

Penguin Church

When I saw Vanda’s post on the old church I thought I would see what I could do with a church photo. I have taken a lot of pictures of churches. They range from little chapels to grand looking cathedrals. I also have new software to try out so I thought I would have a bit of fun and do a post using a church too. This is what I did.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Columns and Vertical Lines

The wet weather has certainly ruined my weekend off as far as going out was concerned so I am stuck here at home. Of course I had seen the forecast but was wishing I could put the dogs in the car and take off for the day. It would have been great to get out of the house but we would not have been able to walk about much due to the rain. It has really set in here so decided to get on with editing some photos and some of my other hobbies. I am also using a trial photo editing program that I recently downloaded from the Microsoft Store. I’ve played around with most of these photos a little bit. One or two have been left alone as I like them as they are. Others I changed more for the fun of it rather than because they were too dark or whatever. I always try to find photos that I have not used in the past but this is sometimes hard as I have not been taking pictures for very long. Here are the shots I picked for Columns and Vertical Lines today.

Railway Workshops Launceston
Railway Workshops building Launceston
Public Trust Office Napier
Public Trust Building Napier
Memorial Napier
Memorial Napier
Memorial Napier 2
Memorial Napier
KL Building 2
Tall building in KL
KL building 1
Another tall building in KL
House on the Brisbane River
A posh house on the Brisbane River Brisbane very obviously.
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Old Majestic Theatre Singapore

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Columns and Vertical Lines

Vertical Lines & Columns

As it is too wet to take photos today I’ve chosen a variety of pictures from all over the place starting with one of the many new office blocks going up in Brisbane. These pictures were taken between 2007 and the present with a variety of different cameras from my old point and shoot Kodak Easyshare, Fujifilm point and shoot I think, Nikon L120 and Pentax K10 for the Brisbane one. I’m doing a free trial of Adobe Photo Elements 2018 so edited my pictures with it today to help me decide if I want to shell out the money for it or stick with Photo Elements 9, Picasa and the Windows photo editing program which are the three progams I use currently.

One of the newer buildings in Brisbane. March 2018

New Zealand in 2016. I knew Napier would not disappoint, it has some wonderful old buildings.

The Public Trust Office , Napier NZ

In Auckland we liked the interior of the old railway station building.

Columns at the Railway Station in Auckland..

I took this one in the Myer Centre in Adelaide in 2011. The upper floors were empty and deserted which I found very disconcerting in a building I remembered as a busy shopping centre.

The Myer Centre Adelaide

Still in Adelaide one of the older style buildings in Rundle Mall which I photographed in 2011. I won’t guarantee it is still there now.

An old building in Adelaide SA

On a trip to Canberra in 2007 we stopped off at Gundagai, NSW.

An old building in Gundagai NSW.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Arches, Domes & Half Circles

I love old ornate buildings from previous centuries. Today’s buildings mostly lack the grace and beauty of the past. There is nothing grand about dark glass and slabs of concrete thrown together to make a skyscraper. I love arches, domes, beautiful brickwork ,tiled flooring, stained glass and big impressive doorways. Before I end up getting into a rant about how ugly today’s architecture is here are my photos for this weeks Fun Foto Challenge.

Botanical Gardens
Archway at Botanical Gardens Hobart
Chimes 1
Chimes Singapore
Clarke Quay
Riverside Point Singapore
collier quay
Inside the old Clifford Pier building now a posh hotel.

Dome Singapore

Inside Hotel
Inside the Rendezvous Hotel
Kempton Church
A church at Kempton
Port Arthur
Port Arthur
Tailem Bend
Tailem Bend Hotel
The Mill
Oatlands Mill

 

Cee’s Which Way Photo Challenge: 25 May 2018

Which Way Kuala Lumpur

At times our visit to Kuala Lumpur seemed like one all day Which Way but  Naomi and I will have more to say about that in our Cruise Holiday posts later. For now I’ll just share a few photos I was able to take as we tried to navigate the CBD on the day that a big marathon race had closed most of the roads.

Competitors in the Marathon
A mural under a bridge
Steps to the Mosque
The old Railway Station KL
At the old Railway Station
Station Platform
Plaza outside Petronas Towers

Snapshot Sunday: Adverts

While out and about last week end I got some photos of some more old and new advertising and a nice photo of a favourite old pub in the Glenorchy area. The pub is “The Elwick Hotel” It has a lovely lounge area and the staff are very nice. One thing I like about this pub is the beautiful murals on the outside of the building. I took one photo of the best one as I walked by. The other photos are of very old and very new advertising on buildings. The bright yellow is rather garish but I do love the old fireworks,crackers sign on the Chinese restaurant. You can see how advertising has changed over the years by these photos.

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Ooh Ahhh Fireworks! This is a great old sign.
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Showing the old building it is on.
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A wonderful mural.
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The Elwick Hotel
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Modern Advertising which is not as nice.