NZ Visual Diary - entry 149

Braemar on Parliament Street (redux)

There are buildings that I love so much, I wander back to them from time to time to consider the difference in light and other elements of the visual scene.

I featured Braemar on Parliament Street in entry 101 of this substack blog.

I returned to Parliament Street the other day while on a walkabout with a mate from the States, Roberto (Bob) Schaefer, a storied director of photography. Roberto and I grew up in Hartsdale (New York) and completed together the grades of the Ardsley School District. Until a month ago, we had not seen each other since high school graduation in June of 1969.

Yes, we had much conversational ground to cover, which we did while wandering about Auckland cameras in hand.

We were on our way to the Courtville Apartments building, at the corner of Parliament Street and Waterloo Quadrant, when I stopped at Braemar next door.

There were two notable differences in the scene before me when compared to the image I captured in the previous post on Braemar: the quality of light and an absence of cars in front of the building. In my previous post about this Victorian era building, I elected to crop out the wrought iron gate along the berm to eliminate the visual distraction of a row of parked cars.

Being able to render morning’s light, including the glint on the front wall, and introduce the charming front gate justified in my mind a double entry on Braemar.