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Sir Edmond Hillary


Sir Edmond Hillary
Photo Information
Copyright: Cath Le (fluffy222) (49)
Genre: People
Medium: Black & White
Date Taken: 2008-06-27
Categories: Decisive Moment
Exposure: f/1.8, 1/60 seconds
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2008-07-05 15:18
Viewed: 178
Points: 4
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Sir Edmund Percival Hillary, KG, ONZ, KBE (20 July 1919 – 11 January 2008) was a New Zealand mountaineer and explorer. On 29 May 1953 at the age of 33, he and Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers known to have reached the summit of Mount Everest. They were part of the ninth British expedition to Everest, led by John Hunt.


In 1992 Hillary appeared on the updated New Zealand $5 note, thus making him the only New Zealander to appear on a banknote during his or her lifetime, in defiance of the established convention for banknotes of using only depictions of deceased individuals, and current heads of state. The Reserve Bank governor at the time, Don Brash, had originally intended to use a deceased sportsperson on the $5 note but could not find a suitable candidate. Instead he broke with convention by requesting and receiving Hillary's permission — along with an insistence from Hillary to use Aoraki/Mount Cook rather than Mount Everest in the backdrop. The image also features a Ferguson TE20 tractor like the one Hillary used to reach the South Pole on the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition.[37]

Photo info.

Taken during 'a Friday night after work' at home. This is a routine sort of a Friday night with friends piling around. I had noted the five buck note on the coffee table (old Rimu woodbox) with Sir Ed & thought 'ah, abstract portrait of Sir Ed, lets go.

Using 50mm/1.8f for maxi light under tungstan also teleconverterx2 for portrait type effect plus b&w highlighting Sir Ed. Deliberately underexposed on Sir Ed.

Note: focusing on Sir Ed through the glass was much different then on the actual note itself

Resized only.

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Wine and money. Related. Much. You cannot have wine if you do not have money huh :) My best alcoholic drink. I also observe, a "NEVER MIND" idea on this photo. Let everything be in its own way :)

A fantastic composition leading the eye to Sir Edmund Percival Hillary; a true explorer.

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