Thursday, July 28, 2011

Crawley Edge Boathouse.....

Sometimes when you've lived in a city for so long you don't see things that are right under your nose. It was only when I stopped on Tuesday to take the picture of Eliza that I fully noticed the old boathouse, and yet it's one of the most photographed images in Perth. Just a little further up from The Royal Perth Yacht Club on the Swan River the bright blue with white trim boathouse sits at the end of it's own little pier, it was originally constructed in the early 1930's and refurbished in 2000's. It's the kind of image you can have lots of fun playing around with and I've seen many different perspectives and varying shades of blue, I decided to keep it fairly simple and went with the above.....!! Big storms in Perth today, hope the sun is shining in your part of the world.....

35 comments:

  1. superbe photo, on se croirait dans un monde imaginaire, j'adore

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  2. I love the colours, very nicely done. I can see why people use this as a subject.

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  3. That's beautiful, Grace! It was 29˚C and sunny here today.

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  4. Simple yet stunning image. Love the lines in the photo. Weather here as hot as Hades with very high dew point.

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  5. Just about perfect. I really like how you lined up the edges of the roof with the horizon.

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  6. This is just beautiful! Gorgeous picture. Lovely composition.

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  7. This is worth framing, it's just gorgeous. Beautifully done!

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  8. Now that is a gallery shot! So beautiful.

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  9. blue heaven!



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  10. You've right ! Lovely shot....

    Pierre

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  11. Love the pic - as you say masses of pics of this boathouse but yours is up there with the best. The Swan River looking very choppy today.

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  12. fantastic shot
    i want a house like this for my hollidays

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  13. Wonderful shot Grace, you could sell this as a postcard! Lovely place for relaxing holidays.

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  14. That's a postcard, right? :-)

    Nope. Been cloudy and grey and temps between 17 and 21° for 2 weeks now. Talk of summer...

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  15. Great picture with a interestnng composition and some striking colors!
    Sunny after some rain yesterday, 25°C today, my perfect day of summer, I hate when it is too hot.

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  16. Really interesting subject. Very photogenic. Thank you for the description of history. In our sun, but little heat. I wish you better weather. Greetings! Peter.

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  17. A fantastic image. I could while away a few hours on that pier.

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  18. Great the capture Grace. We are lucky that this building has been preserved so well. Love the reflections of the boat shed and especially the sky and clouds

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  19. I love it all!the blue, the house, the perspective, the sea... The kind of picture I'd like to have on my wall!

    25° here, sun shining, wind blowing.

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  20. wow, un maison bleu on the middle, amidst the waters.
    now this is just pretty. ^0^
    are you sure this isn't a cut out from a magazine?... ^-^

    ps: alas, we're having a bad weather too.
    in fact, i think it's almost a week that the classes are suspended.

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  21. Perfect. A perfect example of when you need to ditch "The Rule of THirds"! V

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  22. Fantastic shot, you made something beautiful even better...

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  23. I can understand why it's photographed so often! Love how you used the blue-ish tones!

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  24. Blue on blue ... very effective, Grace.

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  25. This is absolutely amazing, I can't believe this exists! I would so love to live there. It would be such an amazing experience. And I like fishing too and I can fish while watching TV :)

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  26. Absolutely beautiful and perfectly composed. Love it.

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  27. If I ever go to Perth, this is on my must visit list. Great sky as well, Grace.

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  28. Oh, Grace, this is simply stunning!

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  29. For parking the bike here it is place.. hi...Bikes Perth

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