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House, 91 (29%) were taken from the Mount Ainslie lookout.  Such shots tend to emphasise depth of field, with the most effective images incorporating the Australian War Memorial in the foreground, and with a background of hills surmounted by less than 25% of sky.  In these shots, portrait layout seems to capture best the strong visual relationship between the Australian War Memorial, Anzac Parade, Lake Burley Griffin, Old Parliament House and new Parliament House.

   Figure 98.  View from Mt Ainslie, 2007
   Source:  Flickr, collection of jthommo101, www.flickr.com/photos/jthommo101/474973036

If any of these five related cultural elements were to be removed, the strength of the image would diminish considerably, as it would if Anzac Parade were to be narrower, less distinctively coloured or flanked by obtrusive buildings or roads.  The trees provide a strong framing element.

The photographer who took the image above subtitled it, 'The most photographed scene in Canberra'.  While this assertion is not easily tested, this image is certainly typical of numerous similar shots displayed on the FlickR website.  As will be seen below from other sources, this is a 'classic' Canberra image.

About 60% of the FlickR photos of Anzac Parade taken in the direction of new Parliament House are shot from in front of the Australian War Memorial rather than from the Mount Ainslie lookout.

  Figure 99.  Anzac Parade, 2006
  Source:  Flickr, collection of Dr Hotdog, www.flickr.com/photos/11878856@N00/108671965

   Figure 100.  Anzac Parade, 2009
   Source:  Flickr, collection of CS Hiland, www.flickr.com/photos/hokiespice/4051593264, site inactive 4 August 2022

The aesthetic qualities of both preceding shots are based upon the strong perspective created by Anzac Parade, which leads the eye to Old Parliament House.  The compositions differ, as do all 176 shots from the Australian War Memorial at road level, mainly in the placement of the camera.  'Dr Hotdog' has chosen the Stone of Remembrance as the foreground, while CS Hiland has chosen to stand further back and frame the image with the flagpoles in front of the Australian War Memorial.  The Stone of Remembrance, flags, bollards and the railings either side of the steps have all been chosen by numbers of photographers as the foregrounds of their compositions.

With shots of Anzac Parade in the direction of the Australian War Memorial, photographers tend to be as concerned with the choice of background as much as foreground, that choice being between the Australian War Memorial or Mount Ainslie, as seen below.  In both cases, it is Anzac Parade itself which provides the foreground rather than any discrete object, and its strength as such has much to do with the striking colour of the centre median and often the shadows that play on it.

   Figure 101.  Australian War Memorial, 2006
   Source:  Flickr, collection