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Fountains Abbey – National Trusts Holiday Cottage
Every Monday, Ludwig holds a Monday Photography Challenge. Now the I am nearly back to normal; it seems as if I’ve missed a load of challenges including the window challenge called Ludwigs Monday Window Photography Challenge. So, for my first entry of 2023, I give you this holiday let cottage at Fountain’s Abbey in North…
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Playing with Texture
Sometimes, playing around can be real fun. And one of the things I love to play around with is texture. Texture is everywhere! In bricks, trees, flowers, everything that surrounds us has a texture to it. Fine Arts ~ . the characteristic visual and tactile quality of the surface of a work of art resulting…
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Stoneacre House
Back in August 2018 we went to a house called Stoneacre, Otham, Maidstone in Kent. Stoneacre is a medieval yeoman’s house and garden constructed in the 15th Century. What I love about the Stoneacre house was the windows, made of wood and lead lights, which I thought would be great for Ludwig’s Monday Windows Photography…
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Bateman House
We’ve all seen and read Jungle Book and loved it. We’ve had our imaginations taken to new heights, with Mowgli, Baloo the bear and Shere Khan the tiger. It was during the making of Jungle Book, that Walt Disney passed away. It was the last film he produced and the first film to be released…
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Formal Entrance – Down House
The home of Charles Darwin, now owned and maintained by the English Heritage, is the home where Darwin wrote ‘On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection‘ in 1859 about his groundbreaking works on the Theory of Evolution. Darwin and his wife, Emma, moved into their home in 1842, where they remodelled the…
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The making of Wordless Wednesday Image and one step further.
The objective of Wordless Wednesday is to post a photo and let the photo speak for itself. Well, the manipulation of this image started out as a trial to see how far you can push the Photo Merge in Lightroom. And I have to say in this case it was great. I started out with…
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Wordless Wednesday – Scotney Castle
Posted as part of Wordless Wednesday
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My Magic Number – Fountains Hall
One thing I always do to an image when processing, is add a vignette. But sometimes I have a tendency to go a little overboard… especially on flowers. Landscapes, however, need a subtle vignette and not a heavy one, unless you are deep into woodland and want to draw the viewers eye to the centre…
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Prashley Manor House
Six years ago, we visited Prashley Manor House. And what a spectacular house and gardens! Unfortunately for me, I was at that time in a wheelchair, awaiting a hip operation. And little did we know, it was on a hill. Whilst I loved the look of the gardens, I was rather limited to where I…
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The Changing Seasons… October 2022
“The trees are in their autumn beauty, The woodland paths are dry, Under the October twilight the water Mirrors a still sky.” William Butler Yeats Here in the UK, October was rather a mild month…. In fact, with such mild weather, it delayed autumn. Normally, in October there is a chill in the air, even…
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Nymans Ruins
Since the house was purchased by Ludwig Messel and his wife Annie, back in the 1890’s there have been generations of the Messel family living at Nymans, with the eldest son of Ludwig’s and Annie, Leonard, inheriting the house in 1915. Leonard and Maud Messel, renovated the house to what it is today. However, inn…
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Nymans Revisited
Today the weather allowed us to go back to Nymans in West Sussex. It is just over 50 miles from and easy to get to. Mostly the drive is motorway driving. Even though it wasn’t supposed to rain, the clouds loomed, and was quite dismal. I will say this now…in a few of the images…
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