We have just got home from a 70th birthday party lunch for a friend of ours, so here is a photo I took last weekend.
As I said yesterday last weekend we went to Stanley Park and this is a photo of the house built on the land.
I decided to have a bit of a play with it in Photoshop to, hopefully, make it a bit more interesting.
The site of Stanley Park was first owned by James Smith, an emancipated convict who was given the 880-acre land grant in 1837.
The following year he sold it to Gentleman John Smith (no relation), a wealthy land owner with business interests in Maitland and Newcastle.
John Smith had a contract to supply beef to the army and this was shipped from the Fullerton Cove property’s wharf.
In 1897, a descendant, Stanley Smith, built the 2 storey mansion estimated to cost around 1800 pounds, hence the property name “Stanley Park”, featuring 6 marble fire places with cedar joinery throughout.
The house now stands on 28 acres and remained in the Smith family ownership for one hundred years – the final occupants were spinster sisters who moved from room to room if the roof leaked.
The interior of the house has been rebuilt and modernised and is now a hotel and the venue for wedding parties, with hotel accommodation for the guests.
@leestevo It's hard work being retired, ha ha. This week is going to be pretty busy. We will be eating out just about every day. I think the only day I have to cook dinner this week is going to be Tuesday.
@neatz@yaorenliu@tonygig@lynnz Thanks everyone. It is a shame that the internal décor is very modern now though. The charm of the house has been lost inside.
Great capture of this beautiful looking building with such a history, love the processing Babs, I must investigate how this was achieved in Photoshop wouldn't mind having a go myself:)
@pcoulson Thanks Peter. Easy really.
Image/adjustments/black and white
Filter/solarize
Image/adjustments/curves and then adjust the curves for brightness and contrast etc until you feel it is right.
@princessliz@ethelperry@flyrobin@beryl@hermann@onlyme111@pusspup@gigiflower@gosia@epcello@thistle@kwind Thanks everyone for your comments and favs sorry for the group reply again, but I have a medical appointment in Newcastle today so will be out most of the day and then tonight we are out at the golf club for dinner.
The processing was quite easy and I have shown Peter how to do it but here it is again if anyone is interested.
I did this in Photoshop
Image/adjustments/black and white
Filter/solarize
Image/adjustments/curves and then adjust the curves for brightness and contrast etc until you feel it is right.
Cool processing on what looks to be a beautiful old house! Love the part about the sisters moving to other rooms when the roof leaked! Glad that it has been fixed up and modernized. Great capture!
Lovely capture.
Image/adjustments/black and white
Filter/solarize
Image/adjustments/curves and then adjust the curves for brightness and contrast etc until you feel it is right.
The processing was quite easy and I have shown Peter how to do it but here it is again if anyone is interested.
I did this in Photoshop
Image/adjustments/black and white
Filter/solarize
Image/adjustments/curves and then adjust the curves for brightness and contrast etc until you feel it is right.