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Built around 1865 for £4 by Louis Beyer
This shot taken on my recent road trip to the west of our state, this is one of the surving buildings in the historic goldfields township.
In 1872 what was, at the time, the world’s largest specimen of reef gold – the ’Holtermann’s Nugget’, weighing 285 kg and measured 150 cm by 66 cm with an average thickness of 10 cm.
After this the town grew to over 8000 people, making it one of NSW’s largest inland towns with a kilometer plus of shops, five banks, two newspapers, a brewery, 27 hotels – all doing well – now the Royal Hotel (1872) is the only one remaining
Hill End is maintained by National Parks & Wildlife NSW qas a historic site
Equipment: Nikon D300, Nikon 18-70mm
Technique: HDR 20 Bracketted Exposures shot in brackets of 5 exposures, tonemapped in Photomatix 4.0, merged in photoshop.
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See Also
Go To State Library of NSW To See the building in it’s hey day"HERE":http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemPopLarger.as...:
Philip Johnson is a Photographer located on the Northern Beaches of Sydney. Specialising in HDR photography his works have been shown in galleries,published in Tourism campaigns. His work will also be available as Jig Saws through Crown & Andrews
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I really do love this Philip, it has this auric feeling of such love and now only the hotel surviving strange Aussies we are to a point, all love always NORMAJE.
Fabulous work Philip! Hard to believe that it was bought for £4. Good to see you’re getting in early before the influx of pics! lol :o)
Fabulous work Philip!
Nice one Philip
Cool place Phil. Excellent processing,
Great work Philip,just love these old pioneers huts
Haha getting in first?! Making a beeline here next weekend … no doubt to join a queue. Fabulous result Philip. Have you entered the Hill End challenge yet?
Wish I could build something with this much character for 4 pound … $40,000 even!
Getting in the Hill End mood I see.
great story , thanks for the info & what a superb shot , lovely PP work:-)
Awesome details, Philip!