Lighting - Commandant's House - Port Arthur by Marilyn Harris
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Lighting – Commandant’s House – Port Arthur, Tasmania, Australia.
The Commandant was Port Arthur’s most senior official. A residence befitting his rank and position was erected on high ground on the fringe of settlement in 1833.
The Commandant’s House, originally built as a simple wooden cottage, had a commanding view over the rest of the settlement. It evolved over the years to become a many-roomed complex fringed by ornate gardens and pathways and separated from the rest of settlement by high masonry walls.
As Tasmania’s period of convict transportation drew to a close in the late 19th century, the building changed hands to become the Carnarvon Hotel in 1885 and then a guest house which operated until the 1930s.
Canon PowerShot A650IS
Shutter Speed: 1/20sec
Aperture: F2.8
ISO: 800
Comments
Gorgeous capture Marilyn!! Beautiful work, fabulous image! :D
Thank you so much Caitlin – Really appreciate! :o)
– Marilyn Harris
beautiful lighting :o)
lovely image
Thank you so much Wendy – Appreciate! :o)
– Marilyn Harris
Most unusual but very effective Marilyn.
Thanks Roy – Appreciate! :o)
– Marilyn Harris
Fabulous image and work !!! ☺♥
Thank you so much Evita – Appreciate! :o)
– Marilyn Harris
Thank You so much Gemma and It’s in the Detail for this honour! :o)
– Marilyn Harris
Thank you for adding your work to The Best of RedBubble! This is fantastic, great work!
Awesome capture and lighting. Looks stunning !!
Thank you so much Sean! Appreciate! :o)
– Marilyn Harris
Congratulations! You have been featured in The Best of Red Bubble, June 4, 2011. You can read about it in the forum post, June 4 Double Feature Part II.
Thank You so much Kathleen and The Best of Red Bubble for this honour! :o)
– Marilyn Harris
Congratulations Marilyn on your features with this amazing work. Well done! Cheers, Graham.
Thanks so much Graham! An honour to be amongst such great works! :o)
– Marilyn Harris
Wonderful!
Nice to see again, the incredible wallpaper in the room (or is it in the entrance hall – can’t remember), so strong, rich and expensive! – exuding power & wealth.
A hallmark of the Commandant’s superior position. Also the “blue” used in that paper was very expensive to achieve at that time. A similar paper with same blue background was recently discovered (under 15 layers!) in the Magistrate’s Room, in the old Supreme Court House (c.1830) at Oatlands in the Tasmanian Midlands.
I was a volunteer guide there, before going to the Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery, in Hobart.
This is a marvellous pic, Marilyn. The “candle-light” captures the colonial ambiance superbly.
Cheers,
Ian,
Tasmania.
Wow! You are a wealth of information Ian. Thank you for the info. It must have been wonderful being a guide there. Something that has always interested me. I think I would need 3 life times to be able to do all the things I wish! There is so much history in our amazing world! :o)
– Marilyn Harris