Faded Glory

[stubbsy]

Took these today at Newcastle Ocean Baths. A wonderful old building that's seen better days. It's now riddled with concrete cancer and the council is debating whether to spend the $$$ to fix it or slightly less $$$ to demolish it and rebuild a replica in the same spot




This shot is an interesting comparison to the way the baths looked yesterday (first shot in THIS post)
when all of what you see here was under water from the huge seas

[redline]

the bath area look pretty interesting, lovey colors

[daniel_r]

Stubbsy, thanks for sharing.

I love this kind of architecture - too often local government chooses the easy way out - the bulldozer. Even at my age, I've seen some incredibly stupid things pass DA.

It was before my time... the local council in the city where I grew up decided to demolish rather than preserve the birthplace of Banjo Patterson - Templers Mill. Result - a pile of bricks in the middle of a paddock and a pithy obelisk opposite a garbage tip.

I recall a notion from Sir Thomas More's Utopia - society has a tendency to let the previous generation's buildings rot, convinced that they will build a superior replacement. Nice to know things haven't changed since 1516

images!
Yes... fantastic colour and geometry.

[stubbsy]

Thanks guys. I agree Daniel - we need to have some appreciation of the past. The weird thing about this to me is that the councillor who suggested demolishing and rebuilding a replica doesn't get it. It's not just the look it's the patina of age and the way the bloody thing was constructed that makes it what it was. Might as well take a big photo and put that up otherwise.

[birddog114]

Thanks guys. I agree Daniel - we need to have some appreciation of the past. The weird thing about this to me is that the councillor who suggested demolishing and rebuilding a replica doesn't get it. It's not just the look it's the patina of age and the way the bloody thing was constructed that makes it what it was. Might as well take a big photo and put that up otherwise.

Peter,
You were wrong and the councillors are right!:twisted:

They need some monies for their Xmas presents or anew car or another holiday hoem in the region.


Without them, we will live in comfy

[Matt. K]

Peter
That's one of my favourite spots in Newcastle. Those baths are very picturesque. There's something wrong with the colour of the water in your shot. It doesn't look natural...what have you done in PP? Pumped up the saturation?

[stubbsy]

Peter
That's one of my favourite spots in Newcastle. Those baths are very picturesque. There's something wrong with the colour of the water in your shot. It doesn't look natural...what have you done in PP? Pumped up the saturation?

I recalibrated my CRT monitor yesterday and in playing around with things managed to make the LCD monitor colour profile the one to use (bloody MS why can't they support 2 monitor profiles). I've fixed it now, but things were out when I PPd that shot and I was too lazy to fix it. Yes it's way too blue. You've made me feel guilty so I've redone it and the new version appears below:

[Glen]

Stubbsy, really like the second shot, more so with a natural blue to the water.



When I saw the title I thought you had taken a shot of me without my knowledge

[daniel_r]

re-PP on #2 - much better.

[Matt. K]

Peter
Just purrrrrfect!

[Alpha_7]

The re-do is much better Peter well done.