Steve Paxton's photos with the keyword: Fremantle

The Big Ball & Chain was originally nestled in the sand at the beach for the 2015 Sculpture by the Sea exhibit in Cottesloe. These days it sits near the train station in a park. The creator, Norton Flavel (who also created the Big Hand in Armidale, NSW) wanted to pay homage to the first convicts who arrived by sea in shackles. I thought it looked just a bit more at home behind the fence like the convicts . you are looking at about 3 time normal human size.

The famous Fremantle ‘Containbow’ is made up of nine shipping containers and painted in rainbow colours to create the Big Rainbow Sea Container. It towers over us at 9 metres high, 19 metres long and weighing in at 66 tonnes. I was the uber driver for my wife today as her car had to be repaired. this morning this was a solid line of cars and semis both brides to get to north fremantle at a crawl. A truck hauling two sea containers like above rolled over blocking both lanes . traffic was reduced to a crawl 20min trip blew out to 1h 20m. I was able to come back early for the pick up to get these three displays. On my trip back from north Fremantle after dropping my wife at work there was a solid line of trucks for miles trying to get into North Fremantle container area.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingo_Flour_sign The dingo logo was painted by artist Les Nash in 1940 for £40. According to his daughter Mona Rankin it took her father about a week to complete the logo. Nash first sketched the dingo onto graph paper and then used the gridded panels on the silo to guide his large-scale transfer of the design onto the silo itself. It is about five and a half storeys high. It was painted over during World War II, but its outlines were still faintly visible. Refugees and migrants coming to Fremantle saw the sign, and it remains a useful reference point for boaters and anglers. It was mostly re-painted in March 2001. In 2010 the flour mill was renovated, and the dingo now gets re-painted every month. Just in case you thought it was a miss print 5 1/2 stories high this is the side view its far from small.

As we had the two Great grandchildren we took them for a drive to a place we both knew.

timegents.com/2019/11/18/fremantles-cleopatra-hotel While looks like a normal shot it is far from it. This is a 5 shot freehand vertical Panorama of the Building front. This is easy after years of taking Milky way bows. Clara and I thought we would go for a walk in Fremantle as we have not for years after we closed the Cafe .

It good to see the turn around from the rundown building we use to park next to. www.perthnow.com.au/local-news/perthnow-fremantle/royal-george-hotel-redevelopment-to-open-in-2023-c-4442908

One of the Quirky statues in the Fremantle area. Its good its Thursday in a new week and all the last few day behind both my Wife and self. In all this I have only had a very Bad Flu ( even though Vaccinated for Flu) my wife got covid both our tests where so different. I got down to the stage of not wearing glasses due to the weight on my nose /face. Looking a whole lot brighter for both of us.

The view out to the Entrance of Fremantle Harbour. Please note I will be missing in action for the next few days. My wife tested positive to covid today I feel like i saw her yesterday. I feel like i have been hit by a bus you know the saying every time I stand my feet hurt , in this case my whole body hurts. done a lot of sleeping and trying to keep warm. You all take care.

Part of the outside exhibit for the maritime museum. My grand son said I was missing all day as they dawdled, I took photos but I always knew where they where and when they moved I moved with them.

The front door of one with the date plaque on it. these are very slowly being restored back to the way the where so they can be rented out. living in the heart of Fremantle.

The Fremantle prison fremantleprison.com.au/history-heritage/history/a-brief-history is just behind these building's. these where built to house the warders of that prison. Built in 1858 by prison inmates.

On an early trip to Fremantle we watched the Lawn tennis set up in front of our car.

A shot you would not get, taken from the top of the Fremantle Port Authority building. I was lucky one of our customers took me up and let me shoot some photos A truly elevated view.. Part of the back catalog as no moving about at the moment even here.

Historic homes of Fremantle.

This home always fascinated me the owners never tried to hide the past life of the building.

Playing the Didgeridoo an almost Institution in Fremantle.

Just the night lights on the monument and the city lighting.