Don Donovan's World - St. Luke's, Richmond, Tasmania

Ramblings of a much published New Zealand author - 24 October 2012

Leaves From My Sketchbooks. 66. St. Luke's, Richmond, Tasmania

As I was making this drawing my friend Robin was setting up his camera to do what any artist can but most cameras can't - to capture the image without undue perspective, narrowing towards the top.

He had a fancy shift lens on his SLR Leica which was designed to give a front elevation - rather like an architect's rendering. These days it's easy to correct parallax with Photoshop but digital cameras and computer manipulation hadn't been invented when we went to Tasmania.

There's that lovely butterscotch sandstone again; you could almost eat it!

© DON DONOVAN. 

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