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04-JUN-2003 ©Sheila Smart

Luna park

Sydney

Luna Park goes through phases of being closed and then reopened and then closed ad infinitum!


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Sheila Smart01-Aug-2004 00:05
It was saved and now is working again .. but for how long, I do not know!
Melanie31-Jul-2004 21:07
Absolutly beautiful! A shame that it is to be bulldozed.
Alex 22-Apr-2004 00:31
I was wondering if you print this Luna Park picture in a larger version for me to puchase. It is for a gift and I am looking for something around 60cm x 80cm or there abouts. If you could assist me with this it would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks
Alex
Carol E Sandgren22-Oct-2003 21:57
I just love this shot too! It has a quality about it that really makes it almost like a drawing or painting, which really adds to the mood. I love clowns too, and have taken a photograph of the one on the Las Vegas strip. Phil Douglis noticed the clown shot and corresponded with me and gave me your name and link to this shot. I have never been to Australia, but it's one of the places on my list. I do wonder how long poor Luna Park will survive.
Sheila Smart01-Sep-2003 23:19
Thanks Phil for your kind comments. Your image of the clown also struck me when I perused your galleries. We are indeed photographic soul mates! The image of Luna Park was taken from across the other side of Sydney Harbour with my 300 f/4 L IS hence the "stacked" look of the image. I am thinking of returning to the site (before its bulldozed) to take more images.
Cheers
Sheila
Phil Douglis01-Sep-2003 18:02
I have a thing, Sheila, for defunct amusement parks (as well as not so defunct amusement parks -- see my shot at:http://www.pbase.com/image/20740260 for evidence) and this particular image of Luna Park is remarkable. The huge head on that building is so incongruous, particularly because of the flow of light pouring from its mouth. The picture just seems to drift out there -- a moment somewhere in the past -- surrounded by mist, Moorish pleasure domes, a Ferris Wheel stripped of its cars, a lighthouse, and framed by the houses piled on the hills beyond it. On the wall of my home, I have a framed print based on a photograph made in 1900 at Sutro's Baths -- a series of enormous saltwater swimming pools housed within a great shed. Hundreds of bathers in vintage bathing suits are lined up along the edges of those pools, looking at the photographer. Everytime I look at this image, which is often, I see something else in it. I feel very much the same way about your delicate and detailed vision of the Old Luna Park. You are my kind of photographer! Thank you for sharing this photograph with us, Sheila.