Submitter's name:	Wayne Harridge
Title:	Sidney Myer Music Bowl
Gear used:	Olympus OM-4 + Zuiko 16mm f3.5 + Tripod
Aperture:	f16
Shutter speed:	Auto, 1/8 approx.
Film used:	Agfa APX-25
Technical information:	Used orange filter in Zuiko 16/3.5
Subject information:	"... One of the most significant structures ever built in Oz... It is a large tension structure using aluminum faced plywood panels fixed to a series of prestressed cables attached to a catenary cable stretched bewteen two masts. It should be in all the books because it's so early: 1957 and predates Frei Otto's built work by nearly a decade." — Sutherland Lyall. Architectural Review, October 2001, p35.
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Comment left by: Olaf Greve (no e-mail specified)

Nice perspective, and good usage of B/W!

Comment left by: bbbean (bbbean@beancotton.com)

Nice match between perspective and subject. Contrast seems just right, but for some reason the cables coming to front and center bothers me.

Comment left by: Bob Gries (gries@nothingrhymeswithorange.com)

I bet this was one of a great series of shots! the curvilinear canopy is a great compliment to the fisheye. The tones of the film are great! i may have to check it out!

Comment left by: Donald MacDonald (donald.macdonald@care4free.net)

Yowch! The cables really pull my eyes together. It's a lively and slightly aggressive composition, it leaves me slightly tense... I like it a lot. I find controlling a 24mm a challenge, so I'm impressed.

Comment left by: Jim Caldwell (jamesfc@gte.net)

Nice Shot, and perfect for a lens that wide! I also like the choice of B&W to accent the forms and lines - even the shadows are perfectly placed!

Comment left by: Johan M (no e-mail specified)

A great B&W photo. I like the perspective and lines.

Comment left by: Andreas Grunwald (no e-mail specified)

So fare my favorite picture from that theme!!! Great shot. The cable is leading your eyes to the music bowl building. I think for architecture also BW is ideal!

Comment left by: Chuck Norcutt (chucknorcutt@attbi.com)

Cables to front and center doesn't bother me but the exaggerated perspective from the cable anchor makes me extremely curious as to what this looks like from either side with a 50mm lens.

Comment left by: John A. Lind (no e-mail specified)

And a most significant photograph of it; fascinating; the unique shapes draw attention at a distance and hold it up close! Very interesting perspective. Superb use of leading lines into the structure. Nice use of B&W to isolate and celebrate the shapes. Use of the fisheye and overall composition speaks very, very well of your ability to visualize a photograph that would never appear naturally to the unaided eye this way; both in B&W and in perspective.

Comment left by: siddiq (no e-mail specified)

one of my favs thus far for many of the aforementioned reasons: great composition with lots of leading lines for the eye, superb tonality such as can only be had with B/W (and APX no less!), a remarkable job keeping things level & square on a super wide lens. I'd love to see more from this location, it seems particularly suited to making dramatic visual statements.

Comment left by: :Doro (no e-mail specified)

fascinating use of the 16mm; the structure seems to be in the middle whereas it actually isn't. Love the APX 25 too!

Comment left by: Steve Goss (stevegoss@speakeasy.net)

Very nice. Draws your eyes in and doesn't let go. In addition to all the rave comments before, I like the ampetheater formed by the clouds.

Comment left by: iwert (no e-mail specified)

This is a nice picture of a very interesting building, but as an architect I am just curious... The steel rope is cast in in the concrete element in the bottom of the picture... As you choose to shoot the whole building, as one composition, why did you break off this part of the structure when this is what keeps the building standing? Maybe portrait could have solved it, but then I like the surroundings to give scale to the subject.

Comment left by: Chris Barker (imagopus@threeshoes.co.uk)

Nice use of the lead-in cable, although I might have tried it off-centre. But then I don't have a 16mm and I cannot tell what would have resulted. The sky is wonderful and matches the structure (or sets it off) nicely.

Comment left by: Brian Swale (no e-mail specified)

A most ingenious and effective use of the 16mm lens. A great shot; congratulations. Apart from the use of B&W which is very effective in this case, this composition has minimised or disguised the usual problems of using fisheye lenses. Now I'd like to see the structure with a normal perspective - but maybe that would spoil the memory of this shot.

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