Classic Stourhead View

Very calming image, with layers back to front, the daisies create some important foreground detail which matches the tones of the reflections on the lake.
 
Like the view through to the ornate building at the far side of the lake and the tones throughout are really lovely. A very pleasant image and one that you can return to easily to view again. By chance did you take a shot in portrait mode?
 
Tommy said:
Like the view through to the ornate building at the far side of the lake and the tones throughout are really lovely. A very pleasant image and one that you can return to easily to view again. By chance did you take a shot in portrait mode?
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I did, but only got half the frame. The winder on the Nikon had stopped functioning properly.

Thanks all. Stourhead is a bit marvellously photogenic place, and very familiar as I was at school nearby - as well as regular visits with Mum & Dad, we used to do CCF night exercises in the woods leading up to Alfred's Tower. Fay Godwin made a couple of her most famous photographs there, but sadly not when I was there!
 
CCF night exercises! Those were the days. Memories of very heavy ex WWII canvas bivouacs and stumbling around in the dark with a .303 rifle. Happy days.
 
Pity the camera lost you the upper part of the Bristol Cross. Cropping to just above to just above the finial ( if that's the right word) on top of the lower arch might make the loss less apparent. Nice image though.
 
John2 said:
CCF night exercises! Those were the days. Memories of very heavy ex WWII canvas bivouacs and stumbling around in the dark with a .303 rifle. Happy days.
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That's it! I remember being terrified on one occasion because a body had recently been found in the woods, and we'd all not long ago seen the film 'The Beast in the Cellar'!

John2 said:
Pity the camera lost you the upper part of the Bristol Cross. Cropping to just above to just above the finial ( if that's the right word) on top of the lower arch might make the loss less apparent. Nice image though.
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Good thought, John.
 
My abiding memory is of the occasion we were patiently guarding the lantern that marked the target for the attacking team but gradually became bewildered when nothing seemed to be happening. It turned out that the attacking group carefully made their way silently towards the target only to find that they were about to surround a street lamp in a nearby housing estate. The event became legend. They never lived it down.
 
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