Myers Park Playground and Stairs
Day 3 continued
F14.0 30.0 ISO100 EF24-70@26mm 17 May 2015 time 6.40pm ORIGINAL
• Slow shutter speed • Tripod and remote • Wide DOF • Focused and detail captured of the very colour and modern playground
F2.8 1/100 ISO100 EF24-70@67mm 19 May 2015 time 3.42pm ORIGINAL
I did not capture the day photo of the playground only this interesting piece of art in the playground.
Back to Myers Park to take a day photo with the same focal length and position the same as the night shoot.
Reshoot: The photos below show the area I need to go back and capture during the day for position. Marking the photo helps with positioning and direction the tripod and camera needs to be placed.
Combined Night and Day not working position off.
F14.0 30.0 ISO100 EF24-70@26mm 17 May 2015 time 6.40pm ORIGINAL
F3.5 1/125 ISO100 EF24-70@24mm 19 May 2015 time 3.40pm ORIGINAL
Photographing in the city is most enjoyable so many different buildings and trees. So much is happening in this photo. Adding to my collection of different projects. The reflection and light enhances the photo.
The reflection in of the building looks so alike left and right, just an idea.
Research: MYERS PARK: AUCKLAND’S HIDDEN TREASURE
The Park in 1913
Initially the park extended over six acres of land [extra areas were added in the 1920s and 1940s to make a total of eight acres.]
The site was actually chosen because it was comparatively empty - only 14 buildings, most of them very small, occupied the six acre site. [Thus the gully was not the packed slum as it was represented in contemporary news reports]
The fact that 13 of them were sold for removal suggests they were not decaying hovels either. The one remaining house was converted into a caretakers cottage and still stands on the hill to the south of the new Kindergarten building.
Opening Day 1916
The Myers Park gully is the watershed area at the head of the Waihorotiu Stream or Queen Street River as it was ironically called.
In 1845 the merchant David Nathan built a house for himself on the Karangahape ridge with a view of the fledgling town of Auckland (which at that time extended no further than about Victoria Street).
The Playground circa 1916
The idea of ‘organised play’ was part of the ‘progressive’ educational attitudes prevalent at the turn of the 20th century.
The ‘Reform Park’ movement was a newly developed concept in the United States where rampant urban growth was raising many concerns and resulting in the systematic provision of safe spaces for children to play and green spaces to relax in.
Play Schools and Kindergartens date from the middle of the 19th century but became more common around this time.
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