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Flower of the Day – 26th January 2023
I can honestly say, restricting my blogging down to 3 days a week has really helped with my arthritis in my hands. And I’ve got some of the jobs I want to do finally finished. Every January I have a multi clear-out. You know the type, cupboards, drawers, wardrobe and whatever else I find that […]
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Mid-Week Monochrome #119 – Ruins
Here we are another week and another Mid-Week Monochrome Challenge. I don’t know about you, but it is beginning to feel like Christmas was months ago. Camera Settings Camera: Canon EOS 70DLens: EF-S18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 ISF/Number: f/6.3Focal Distance: 18 mmISO: 100 Shutter Speed: 1/100 secPhotograph Date: 22.10.2022Location: Nymans in West SussexPhotographer: AshSoftware: Adobe Lightroom Classic and […]
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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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Powder Paint Dahlia
Six months into our photography jaunt, we discovered a place called Nymans, which is owned and maintained by the National Trust. Within the grounds, there are formal flower gardens, the ruins of buildings destroyed by fire, and the main house. It was while walking around these beautiful gardens and admiring the summer flowers that I […]
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Pink Dahlia
Normally I don’t use my mobile for taking images… especially flowers where I just love to use my macro lens. However, the following image was photographed using my Samsung A51 5g. Sofia in her lens-artists challenge this week, asks us to explore exposure. And I just love how the light hit the centre of this […]
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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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Floral Friday – FF#76 – Solitude Rose
One of the gardens I love to visit in last spring early summer is the rose garden at Nymans. As you walk into the gardens the fragrances of the beautiful roses being grown, are such a beautiful smell. However, visiting in late October, the rose garden was bare, the roses were getting prepared for their […]
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Garden Wall Door
As you walk through the ruins of Nymans there is a brick wall with a solid wooden door and old latch, which leads you out into the main gardens. Camera Settings Camera: Canon EOS 70DLens: Canon EF-S18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 IS F/Number: f/7.1ISO: 100Focal Distance: 27 mm Shutter Speed: 1/13 secPhotograph Date: 22.10.2022Location: Nymans West SussexPhotographer: AshSoftware: […]
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Purple Lunaria Flower
Sometimes a flower just stands out at you and says please photograph me… And that is what this beautiful Camera Settings Camera: Canon EOS 70DLens: Canon EF-S18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 IS F/Number: f/6.3ISO: 100Focal Distance: 120 mm Shutter Speed: 1/100 secPhotograph Date: 22.10.2022Location: Nymans in West SussexPhotographer: AshSoftware: Adobe Lightroom Classic Posted as part of:
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Penstemon Flower
Camera Settings Camera: Canon EOS 700DLens: Canon EF-S18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STMF/Number: f/6.3ISO: 100Focal Distance: 90 mm Shutter Speed: 1/80 secPhotograph Date: 22.10.2022Location: Nymans, West SussexPhotographer: AshSoftware: Adobe Lightroom Classic Posted as part of:
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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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Orange Dahlia
Camera Settings Camera: Canon EOS 70DLens: Canon EF-S18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 IS F/Number: f/6.3ISO: 100Focal Distance: 80 mm Shutter Speed: 1/160 secPhotograph Date: 22.10.2022Location: Nymans, West SussexPhotographer: AshSoftware: Adobe Lightroom Classic Posted as part of: