LR-16610 - The walled garden at Hinton Amper House and Gardens
I was going to spend ages merging two image or tidying the wrought iron work, but I liked the blur and the distance clarity of the tree, hope you do to :)
End of the day, temperature was dropping as was the light, shot just before the wicked, wicker fence Happy Fence with an escape route !
Canon EOS 7D
Helios 44-2
f2.8
Gardens
The vision of one man, Hinton Ampner is best known for its magnificent garden with stunning views to the south.
The elegant country house was remodelled by Ralph Dutton, the 8th and last Lord Sherborne, in 1960 after a devastating fire, and contains his collection of Georgian and Regency furniture, Italian pictures and objets d'art.
The gardens were also laid out by Ralph Dutton and are widely acknowledged as a masterpiece of 20th-century design, mixing formal and informal planting, providing all year round interest. citation Have to say the place would have looked amazing during the day only there for an hour and a bit
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Great Broadband
Saturday, 23 March 2013
Curly Whirly Garden
It Happens, normally on a Friday so keep an eye out
It Happens, normally on a Friday so keep an eye out, originally uploaded by Rusty Marvin (Chasing Mad March Hare's).
LR-18210 - Post Fence/Gate Friday, like you do, liked the idea of the post on the right, but spotted that eye watching me, the background well you have to have something.
Happy Fence Friday, everyone have a great weekend and hoping the weather is better where you are than it is here going to need some strong post to keep those fences in place.
Dedicated to all those who just want to do that simple little job after lunch on Friday and land up being there till nearly Saturday, because of sods law
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Female Blackbird
LR-18006 - Continuing on from the other day we had some sunshine, one day only and the birds were having a ball in the garden with all the new food, whilst others sat on the fence and watched, this girl decided it was time for a bath in the top pond waterfall. 10 minutes of pure fun watching I can assure you. She was there that long went indoors changed the lens walk back out and she was still splishing and splashing around.
European Blackbird, Turdus merula (female)
Another one up for the old lens (25 years +) on the Canon
Canon EOS 7D
Optomax 300mm f/5.6 - lowest setting (which brings me back to the digital lens comment about f settings, ok another day).
Free hand - No AF, IS or USM on this one so quite pleased with the results at 30 foot away, 1/3 crop of the original
Maybe it's time to spend a lot of money on a lens to capture these moments:)
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Friday, 22 March 2013
The Coastal Path could be dangerous !
The Coastal Path could be dangerous !, originally uploaded by Rusty Marvin (Chasing Mad March Hare's).
LR-16119-ps - Here is one of a couple of concepts/ideas I am not sure if they work for you ?
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Central Heating
LR-16174 - Been a bit busy editing some photo's from a shot for Red Nose day in the UK, hence the lack of postings. Another one from a few weeks back when the weather was nice and the skies where filled with white fluffy stuff that didn't fall to the ground.
Hope you all have a good week Normal service may resume shortly
To the best of knowledge this was;
Lens: Tamron 28-70 1:35-4.5 42mm f3.5
It was a test subject right next to where we were sitting, so each of the six lens had a pop at this :)
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What's in the Water?
LR-16154 - Bit of sunshine from a couple of weeks back, the bright bit on the hat is sun :)
Today is a flask and blanket or duvet day, it's raining, windy and very grey, with spring just four days away.
The story quite complex here, and the image does not portray the whole story with the gentleman escorting two ladies and having afternoon tea, later a stroll along the promenade alternately holding or cuddling each of the woman at different times, so I'll have whatever he had! Perhaps it's the hat?
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Happy Fence with an escape route !
LR-16614 - Don't fence me in. Happy Fence Friday, have a great weekend
Bit of fence ARt, last Saturday started out well as we crossed the Solent and then sort of went down hill weather wise from then on in :( Early mothers day treat from our son for his mummy was a British pub lunch, which seemed to, well it did in fact take most of the afternoon, so didn't get to the tea and cakes until the light started to fade:(
Right at the end of the day and the visit, quite pleased how this came considering the time of day, only got a few shots in, but sometimes that's how the canvas falls. Nice day out and a couple of reasonable photographs can't complain.
Canon EOS 7D
Lens: Tamron 28-70 1:35-4.5 42mm f3.5 - Quite pleased with this older lens, didn't seem to work out that well on DMC G1, but seems to turn out some nice stuff in low light and maintain the depth of colour. Of course no IS, USM or AF so it is all manual, but that's the fun of it for me :) The Helios 44-2 would have work, but no time to try it
Where Hinton Amper House and Gardens
The vision of one man, Hinton Ampner is best known for its magnificent garden with stunning views to the south.
The elegant country house was remodelled by Ralph Dutton, the 8th and last Lord Sherborne, in 1960 after a devastating fire, and contains his collection of Georgian and Regency furniture, Italian pictures and objets d'art.
The gardens were also laid out by Ralph Dutton and are widely acknowledged as a masterpiece of 20th-century design, mixing formal and informal planting, providing all year round interest. citation Have to say the place would have looked amazing during the day only there for an hour and a bit
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