Large Format Photography Australia

Harry Spring's Kitchen, Noosa Everglades.
Gelatin-silver photograph on Agfa Classic VC FB photographic paper, image size 24.7cm X 19,3cm, from a Kodak 8x10 T-Max 400 negative
exposed in a Tachihara 810HD field view camera fitted with a Fujinon-W 300mm f5.6 lens.

Harry Spring constructed his cabin of local timber long long ago but in the spirit of the times the kitchen, always a fire hazard, was built off to the side and of corrugated iron.

Hmm, architecture that I grew up with; love it.

Looks like it is attached to the house/cabin via some kind of timber and tin roofing; bit of a no no that regarding fire to the house prevention.

A nice flat(ish) day allowing you to get shadow detail on the darker sections of the orb iron.

Mick, your comment on the fire hazard of Harry Spring's detached kitchen intrigued me. The original cooking arrangement was apparently just a stone circle fireplace with a couple of camp ovens. A local historian explained that the thing that worked against a general conflagration was the really steep pitch of the kitchen roof. This would catch any smoke or spark emissions and rapidly convect them to the chimney structure at the back.
I live and learn!

I see, that certainly makes sense. I must admit all of the kitchens I was in as a kid in the sticks, didn't have that kind of roof or chimney structure; or at least I don't remember them.

My uncle Ted had a bush house and a kitchen out the back, which also housed the copper boiler for washing. I remember a couple other people living in the sticks with their kitchens out the back as well, most I would suggest were built around 1880's to the 1920's, things started to get modern after then.

I remember reading On our Selection by Steele Rudd in the fifties and thinking that it was a fairly good description of many places and happenings that I knew about, either from stories from my elders, or what I had lived through as a kid in the sticks.

Yes, always learning.