HOTEL WINDSOR
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA
IMAGE NUMBER 640
The Hotel Windsor is a luxury hotel in Melbourne. It opened in 1884 and is Australia's only surviving grand 19th century city hotel. The Windsor is situated on Bourke Hill in the Parliament Precinct in Spring Street.
The hotel has a significant role in the history of Australia as the place where the Australian Constitution was drafted in 1898.
Notable guests at the Windsor have included Margaret Thatcher, George VI of the United Kingdom and Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (as Duke and Duchess of York), Meryl Streep, Anthony Hopkins, Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh, Katharine Hepburn, Basil Rathbone, Lauren Bacall, Douglas Fairbanks, Byron Sharp, Claudette Colbert, Robert Helpmann, Rudolph Nureyev, Dame Nellie Melba, Dame Joan Sutherland, Dame Margot Fonteyn, Michael Dukakis, Muhammad Ali, Barry Humphries, Don Bradman and the Australia national cricket team as well as Australian prime ministers Sir Robert Menzies, Malcolm Fraser, Bob Hawke, Paul Keating and John Howard.
Technical Notes
The image was taken with a tripod-mounted Phase One 645 Camera at ISO 50. Exposure of 1/10th of a second and an aperture of F12. 28 mm Schneider Kreuznach lens with leaf shutter. The image was captured on a Phase One IQ180 80 megapixel digital back.