Happy Birthday SoH

[gstark]

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

[Sheetshooter]

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.

[sheepie]

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

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

[stubbsy]

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.

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.

[Sheetshooter]

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.

[leek]

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...

[gstark]

As would I

In a similar vein, do you have any of, say, William St (or other Sydney icons) from around that period?

[Matt. K]

Moi too! I just love that building!

[Glen]

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

[mdboo]

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

ps. im a nublet in training

=BlackWater=

[gstark]

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

ps. im a nublet in training

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