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Copyright: Erim KI (RookiE_1) Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 122 W: 15 N: 80] (580)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2006-04-11
Categories: Daily Life, Mood
Camera: Panasonic FZ30
Exposure: f/5.0, 1/100 seconds
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version, Workshop
Date Submitted: 2006-05-30 2:56
Viewed: 469
Points: 16
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Another one of my Botany Bay photos.

Botany Bay
Botany Bay is the place where Lieutenant James Cook landed in April 1770 -- there never was a Captain Cook on the Australian mainland, though he was a captain when he later visited Tasmania and New Zealand -- with his friends and crew on board the barque Endeavour. Two of his companions, Daniel Solander and Joseph Banks, were botanists, and they were entranced by the number of flowers blooming in what the calendar said was our late autumn. But while they were very good at collecting and identifying plants, the two were less effective in identifying good farming land.

The Quaternary alluvium (that means sand to ordinary folk) around Botany Bay supported nice green swamps where poverty-stricken plants struggled for an existence, but the gentlemen botanists saw none of this, not when there was so much green around them. They gathered specimens, and Banks schemed to have this demi-Eden turned into a British settlement. It mattered little to him that the plants were growing on some of the worst soils to be found on this planet -- to him, it was a paradise of plants, and Cook was prevailed upon to change the name "Stingray Harbour" to "Botany Bay".

So when Banks rose to a position of power in England, he used his influence to send a settling fleet to Botany Bay, ready to create a power base for Britain in the South Sea. From here, Britain's navy would be able to refit, and perhaps ship yards could build vessels to fight against the French who were, after all, The Enemy.

Oddly enough, a French expedition put into Botany Bay just a few days after the First Fleet arrived, and fools often say that Australia nearly became French, on account of that arrival. This is wrong, for the French knew the British were settling in Botany Bay, the English knew the French would be popping in for a chinwag and a quick bite to eat, and the meeting was all arranged, long before either group sailed from Europe. In those days, scientists were above ordinary warfare, and the British government had instructed Arthur Philip to extend all courtesies to the French visitors.

What is important is that Botany Bay, for all that it is a fine harbour, was no place for a settlement -- no water, poor soil, poor anchorages, shallow shores -- and so Arthur Philip took off for the next major gap in the shore, and so discovered Sydney Harbour. Botany Bay was left alone, low swampy wasteland, where Sydney's airport would later be built -- you can see one runway jutting out into the bay -- and settlement happened further north, at Sydney. And so Sydney was formed, although to two generations of British criminal under-class, this land was "Botany Bay".

Hope you guys like it!!!!
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tebrikler çok güzel bir kare ama bot çok az daha karenin içinde olsamıydı dedim kendi adıma.. elinize sağlık

Hi Erim,

Great picture. The people at the camera club will most likely (I do not always agree with them) suggest tighter cropping. They will most likely crop just at the break in the sun's reflection or maybe even closer to the boat.

Did a workshop showing what they normally do to my pictures. To me a matter of taste but they are very technical about removing all but the focus of the picture - In this case the boat.

Great picture.

TFS
Andre

Good work mate, ws version looks pretty good too, should consider different options at times.. well done anyway

ak

Nice colors and everything, but if it were me, which it definitely isn't, I think I might have pushed the camera up and to the left a little bit so the boat isn't so cramped. Wonderful texture in the water though.

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  • yer6 Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 246 W: 40 N: 118] (1366)
  • [2006-05-31 5:55]

su yüzeyindeki dokuyu, günbatımı yansımasını ve teknenin karenin en üst noktasında oluşunu sevdim. "tüm denizler benim" demiş bu konumuyla.

yeşil adamlar ancak yarın sizi ziyarete gelebilecek.. :)

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  • sufi Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 743 W: 7 N: 104] (1326)
  • [2006-05-31 17:06]

Merhaba Erim...
Kücük teknenin sari rengi ile batmakta olan günesin denizin üzerine düsen sari IsIklari cok güzel uyum saglamis... Teknenin kadrajin sol üst tarafinda kalmasi ve hemen bunun yanindan batan günesin yansimalarini görmemiz, kompozisyonu cok kuvvetlendirmis...
Perspektif ve derinlik harika...
Ellerine saglik...
Saglicakla kal..
Salim.

Sevgili Erim,
Çok güzel bir fotograf. Kompozisyonunu çok beğendim. Kutluyorum ve paylaştığın için de teşekkür ediyorum.
Sevgiler,
Mehmet Hamurkaroglu

Merhaba Erim.
Bu fotoğrafında çok güzel bir kompozisyon oluşturmuşsun, kadraj hoşuma gitti.
Suyun üzerindeki doku çok hoş görünüyor aynı zamanda batmakta olan güneşin ışınlarının suya yansıması da.
İyi iş çıkarmışsın Erim, kutlarım seni.
Ellerine, gözlerine ve yüreğine sağlık.
Güzel paylaşımın için teşekkürler, sağlıcakla kal.

Yasin.

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