The Timeball Tower Metal Print

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The Timeball Tower, Williamstown.
"The Lighthouse was erected in 1852, and replaced earlier navigational aids established from the time of the first settlement in 1835. A Timeball apparatus mounted on top of the bluestone tower operated regularly until 1926.
The Timeball Tower is situated at Point Gellibrand, Williamstown. Its original use was as a signalling device to ships. From 1858 until 1926 the large ball on the top was dropped each afternoon at one o'clock to allow shipmasters moored offshore to correct their chronometers.

In 1932 it was adapted for use as a lighthouse by the addition of a 30ft circular brick tower and it operated as such until 1987. The Williamstown Historical Society has recently had the brickwork removed and the tower restored to its original design. ":http://www.justimagine.com.au/au/vic/williamstown.asp?fState=vic
Canon EOS 500D
Edited in Photoshop CS5 using texture layers by "Princess of Shadows":http://princess-of-shadows.devia...

Margaret has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Printmaking from RMIT but has worked for many years in other mediums. She has work in the National Gallery of Victoria collection and in other private collections including international.Margaret loves photography but most of all she loves taking those photographs further and making them into a completely new creation. Since discovering Digital Art she has begun to create the kind of images that reflect her own personal response to the landscape, flowers, animals and birds on our planet. Margaret's works tend to be moody and reflective with subdued colours and lots of texture although occasionaly bright clear colours creep in. Margaret uses a Canon 500D to capture her images and edits them in...