An Arrowtown entrepreneur has merged her passions for history and photography.
Photographer Karen Reid launched her business, Old Fashioned Costumed Photography, last December.
She operates from the area in front of the Lakes District Museum.
Ms Reid said she had photographed scores of visitors dressed as elegant ladies and gentlemen, grizzled gold-miners, saucy bar girls and musicians. Those being photographed would hold props such as parasols, tools, guns, instruments and baskets of bread and flowers.
The visitors choose to pose in front of a store, steam engine or wagon for a straight-faced Victorian style portrait, a normal smiling picture and a photograph where they just have fun.
They choose which sepia-toned photographs they want mounted on a souvenir card designed as a period newspaper and giving a brief history of Arrowtown. The cost is $25.
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Photographer Karen Reid launched her business, Old Fashioned Costumed Photography, last December.
She operates from the area in front of the Lakes District Museum.
Ms Reid said she had photographed scores of visitors dressed as elegant ladies and gentlemen, grizzled gold-miners, saucy bar girls and musicians. Those being photographed would hold props such as parasols, tools, guns, instruments and baskets of bread and flowers.
The visitors choose to pose in front of a store, steam engine or wagon for a straight-faced Victorian style portrait, a normal smiling picture and a photograph where they just have fun.
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Ms Reid, of Arrowtown, stands in the forecourt of the Lakes District Museum with one of the backgrounds and some of the props and costumes she uses in her portraits. Photo by James Beech.
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