[Leica] Two Panos of the staircase of Elizabeth Bay House Sydney

[passaro.vince at gmail.com (Vince Passaro)]

Hugh --
You've created -- or originated and intro'd -- a new category: the Pana
pano. Which works well in the South Pacific.
Vince

On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 4:16 AM, H&ECummer <cummer at netvigator.com> wrote:

> Hi Luggers,
>
> We are in Sydney for the next few weeks and staying at a friend's house on
> Elizabeth Bay. This morning we went to visit Elizabeth Bay House which is
> just around the corner and spent a couple of hours with the well informed
> docent. Here is some background from the guidebook of the house.
> The Finest House in the Colony
>
> Conceived as "the finest house in the colony" Elizabeth Bay House was built
> for New South Wales' senior civil servant, Alexander Macleay. Macleay's
> appointment as Colonial Secretary reflected the expansion of the colony's
> administration during the 1820s, which gave rise to a colonial middle 
> class.
> Elizabeth Bay House, similarly, reflected the rise (both in Britain and the
> colonies) of the detached villa set within several acres of landscaped
> garden as the ideal form of middle-class housing. The house was associated
> with a series of Greek Revival villas built for the heads of the 
> departments
> of the colony's civil service, on the adjacent Woolloomooloo Hill. The
> builder and architect, John Verge, was responsible for many of the
> Woolloomooloo Hill villas, although the extent to which he may be regarded
> as the designer of Elizabeth Bay House is unclear.
>
> Macleay appears to have had plans for the house by 1832, although its
> commencement was to be delayed until 1835. The house was not made habitable
> until 1839, possibly as a result of Macleay's loss of his post in 1837. At
> the time of its conception Elizabeth Bay House was by far superior to the
> house occupied by the governor but it was to be eclipsed by the new
> Government House completed in 1845. As with many of Verge's commissions, 
> its
> construction was curtailed as a result of the looming financial crisis of
> the early 1840s, which devastated early colonial society.
>
> The Villa Plan
> Its rooms are arranged around a central stair hall, connecting with it and
> with each other. The principal rooms, located on the ground floor and the
> French windows of its three principal elevations, emphasize the house's
> relationship with its garden.
>
> The villa form allowed architectural experimentation with shaped interior
> spaces. Elizabeth Bay House's cubic entrance hall leads to an elliptical,
> domed, top-lit saloon containing the stair.
>
> Here are two vertical 4 panel panorama views taken from opposite sides of
> the staircase with the GF 1 and the 20mm f1.7.
>
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Australia2010/ElizBayVertStair4PanW.jpg.html
>
> http://tinyurl.com/yj7ytjd
>
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Australia2010/LizBayStair4Pan130210W.jpg.html
>
> http://tinyurl.com/yk2mhrx
>
> Please enjoy
>
> C&C welcome as always.
>
> Cheers
>
> Howard (in extremely wet Sydney)
>
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