Argosy III - Ken & Judy Anderson

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Stop No. 5
Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Photographers: Ken & Judy Anderson
Date: May 2006



Argosy Journal:

The fifth stop for the 3rd Argus Argosy was Down Under where our first husband and wife duo, Ken and Judy Anderson both took and submitted photos with the camera.

Ken writes, "Great to have the opportunity to participate.  I had fun trying out different things with this camera and I am encouraged enough to look at putting some films through the two C4's that I have in my display cabinet - I am sure that they will not work as smoothly as Jaye got this one to work and follow on from some of the techniques and settings that I experimentally used on the Argosy III project.

"I actually put through 5 rolls of film (all 36 exposures) one Kodak 100 and four Kodak VR200 - and I am generally pleased with the results particularly one sunrise in which for 30 seconds the dark morning clouds were tinted with a delicate coating of pink, but its so subtle that I think the effect would be lost in transmission, also another of a little shaded creek with the most wonderful subtle tints and very busy foliage.

"I have earmarked these spots for another visit on a brighter day and some photographs on print and some high quality digital with the Nikon D100.  Funny thing is that I have been driving past these locations all my life, never stopping to see what the back roads had to offer."

Ken also got some more publicity for the Argosy as the local Echuca paper, The Riverine Herald did a story - see it here.

Ken's Photographs:



This is an image of  the Elvis Presley memorial erected in the Melbourne General Cemetery at Carlton, taken on a rather dull and indifferent
day.

I spent 6 months many years ago investigating malpractices at this cemetery exposing corrupt payments to staff, theft of monies and creation of "strata" burials where memorials were removed and previous graves covered up with fresh soil and then resold to unsuspecting buyers.

Sadly the trustees of the cemetery were reprentatives of all the main religious groups in Melbourne, but failed to apply due diligence and when asked to give reasons why they should not be sacked, they resigned enmasse.

The cemetery was originally laid out in strict denominational areas and has many fine Pioneer memorials as well as memorials erected as a tribute, such as this one to Elvis.   The cemetery sufferred as the result of the greed of a few as they sought to keep the cemetery open for burials and thus the flow of the fruits of corruption.  I have no regrets from exposing the activities of that group and prosecuting them in what was for me a "side issue" criminal investigation.

It is still a very fine cemetery with reminders of our Pioneers and the privations they  sufferred with the high infant mortality rate of the Colony.  I thought this subject would be of interest to our US membership!




This photo was taken on one of the few fine days, it is taken on the banks of the Murray River near Echuca and shows an Australian "gum" tree [Eucalypt] still struggling to survive with the erosion of its root system as the flood waters inundate this whole area.

Flooding is part of the natural survival of the redgum forests around Echuca. The redgum is a rather durable dense hardwood, very suitable for fence posts, railway sleepers and resists rotting in contact with wet ground as well as the activities of white ants that attack other woods.

Echuca [where Judy's parents live] was an important inland port with paddle steamers pulling barges full of Wheat, Wool, Red Gum wood, and other merchandise along the length of the Murray river. It still has many paddle steamers operating and part of the original wharf system, but only as a tourist operation these days.

The camera performed really well, it was only the photographer it lacked on this leg <G>  Of course this week it has just been so fine with nice bright sunshine each day [as one would expect!!] <G>


Judy's Photographs:



Judy took this scene with the Argosy III camera - It is the St Kilda Forshore area of Port Phillip Bay, Melbourne.

You can see in the distance a large ship out in the Bay, they come in through the heads and dock at the Port of Melbourne.

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This is a photograph Judy took, a streetscape on Princes bridge, taking in the cast iron railings of the bridge with St Kilda Road and its tramlines in the background, The Victorian Performing Arts Centre is the large rounded building on the opposite side of the Yarra River.

The Yarra River winds its way through the heart of Melbourne with extensive parklands to one side of the river. Part of the parklands can be seen on the other side of St Kilda Road with its mixture of exotic and local [Palm trees, oaks and elms, natural eucalypt treescape]


All photographs this page © 2006 Ken & Judy Anderson