We went to Gundaroo today, a short drive from Canberra out into the country, where we walked past a little library that always amuses me. It is typical of pioneer architecture in Australian country towns established a hundred or more years ago. Today the sky was a perfect winter blue, a great day to be out in the street photographing in portrait and landscape.
The photo challenge is to take a photo of the same subject vertically and horizontally. I took 99 photos today, less than half of them vertical, more than half … well, horizontal. Here are two.
is it still in use… great photos and piece of Oz history.. 😉
Gundaroo – literary institute – love it.
Perfect example of orientation.
It’s used for the local volunteer bushfire brigade meetings and as a polling place for elections. The little town is heritage listed as an example of a 19th-century Australian country town.
The owners had grand designs to build a bigger library building but could never get the funds together.
I’m glad you like them.
Thank you for the info Trish,, I like history like this 😉
Love these shots, though I like the horizontal one the best — it gives all the details.
It is often hard to find funding for Literary Institutes… 🙂
Decuate use of the pertinent format for each picture. Nice shots!
What a great little building!
What’s funny in Gundaroo is that the ‘library’ has no books but the cafés and shops sell large numbers of books, new and used. Thanks for looking at my photos and preferring one.
Thanks, I think. (I’m not familiar with the word ‘decuate’ – could you translate it for me?)
I agree. We have quite a number of these 19th-century buildings around the country – since we’re not very old we tend to heritage-list anything that’s still upright if it was built in the 1800s.
Oh, I’m so sorry! it was a mistake from translating in a rush from Spanish (adecuado), I meant “adequate”.
If that’s not the cutest place! It looks like a train station. Great shots, Trish.
Gundaroo is based on the Aboriginal word for the nearby river, now called the Yass River. And the building was donated to the village by a man who established a Mutual Improvement Society and wanted a library for it. These things make us chuckle now.
Thanks Gemma. No trains in these parts! Gundaroo doesn’t even have a water supply (other than tanks).