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A very cool visitor in Ramstein AFB, Germany, was this NATO-owned C-17 Globemaster!
I now have 2 out of 3 planes in the fleet, based in Pàpa, Hungary! The sun pierced through the sky at the right time!!
Sheffield Park Garden is an informal landscape garden five miles east of Haywards Heath, in East Sussex, England. It was originally laid out in the 18th century by Capability Brown, and further developed as a woodland garden in the early 20th century by its then owner, Arthur Gilstrap Soames. It is now owned by the National Trust.
De Strategic Airlift Capability is een samenwerkingsverband van 12 landen, waarvan 10 NAVO lidstaten en twee landen van de 'Partnerschap voor de Vrede'.
Om een gezamelijke luchtbrug te onderhouden heeft de SAC drie C-17 toestellen onder hun hoede. Al deze toestellen staan gestationeerd op Pápa Air Base in Hongarije. Op de staart van de C-17 is de naam van deze vliegbasis te lezen.
Broadway Tower is a folly on Broadway Hill, near the large village of Broadway, in the English county of Worcestershire, at the second-highest point of the Cotswolds (after Cleeve Hill). Broadway Tower's base is 1,024 feet (312 metres) above sea level. The tower itself stands 65 feet (20 metres) high.
The "Saxon" tower was the brainchild of Capability Brown and designed by James Wyatt in 1794 in the form of a castle, and built for Lady Coventry in 1798–99.
Blenheim Palace and the famous bridge seen across the lake, created by the great landscape designer Capability Brown.
The lake is the flooded river Glyme, a small tributary of the Thames. A long exposure blurs the movement of the water and clouds, drawing attention to the static elements of the shot.
Landscape garden, parkland and woodland in East Sussex. Designed in the 18th century by Capability Brown and Humphry Repton.
Although I really like my 100-400 IS ii zoom with it's close focusing capability and versatility, for shooting dragonflies, flowers and other fairly small subjects, it's magnification tops out around 1:3 so fine detail in something like a dragonfly will only be so good, and can not compete with a true macro lens that can get a true macro ratio of 1:1 where a full frame sensor or 35mm film camera can record actual size, where something that is say 0.5" by 0.5" in real life is recorded at that same size on the sensor or film.
For this shot I was going for detail in the dragonflies head. I used flash to add some light so I could keep the ISO down yet still use a small aperture, while taming the background. Add too much flash and the background is jet black, don't add enough and the background becomes glaring and distracting in this instance. I knew the entire subject would not be in sharp focus as range of focus is shallow shooting this close, but that was fine.
I really do enjoy shooting Macro, or close to the 1:1 magnification. It is very challenging and rewarding unlocking detail unseen by the naked eye, opening up an invisible world.
Although I would like to have a longer focal length macro lens such as a 180mm to keep possible magnification around 1:1 while allowing more distance to skittish subjects, a lens like that brings other challenges, in that you need faster shutter speeds if hand holding. and of course those lenses are larger and heavier.
Photography in general is full of decisions and compromises all of which can change the balance of exposure, field of view and range of sharpness, ultimately changing the resulting image as captured. To me, it is always a challenge and always enjoyable.
Highclere Castle is a Grade I listed country house built in 1679 and largely renovated in the 1840s, with a park designed by Capability Brown in the 18th century.
Also very well know for the hit tv series Downton Abbey.
If you like this one, I'm sure you'll love some of the prints I have on Imagekind!
From the name Sheffield Park, you might assume that this was in Sheffield. It is, but it's not the one famous for its steel.
This is Sheffield Park Garden in East Sussex, which is not a million miles away from the seaside town of Brighton.
Sheffield Park Garden has some excellent autumn foliage, and is also home to one of the national Azalea collections; so it's particularly pretty in both spring and autumn.
The garden was designed by Lancelot "Capability" Brown an internationally renowned landscape gardener from the eighteenth century.
Tech:
Canon EOS 400D (aka Digital Rebel XTi), Canon EF-S 10-22.
Three exposures (0+/-2), centred at f4.5 @ 1/45th ISO100
3xRAW converted to 16bit TIFF and CA corrected with DPP, HDR and ToneMapping in Photomatix, final contrast and sharpening in Photoshop CS2.
N.B image replaced Sep09 to correct a minor colour cast.
Vanbrugh's Grand Bridge in Blenheim Park seen from the South. You can see from the sky that it was both cloudy and windy; the light was changing so rapidly that I gave up using manual plus autobracket and set the camera to automatic / aperture priority, something I don't usually do but the light was changing so fast that it was very difficult to use manual settings.
There is a little bit of recent history to this photo, as you can see the bridge is framed by trees. The tree on the left of the photo is one of a recent planting of new trees; I have photos of this area from the mid 1990's in which the area of this tree was grass with saplings. It's now grown enough to become a part of the Blenheim scene. Replanting of Blenheim is necessary because the original trees (mainly beech) were planted in 1770 in the Capability Brown reworking of the Park; as they typically live for around 200 years the original trees are dying. I think replanting was started a bit late; it would have been better done in the 1950's, but there are now some major areas occupied by trees that are some 15-20 years old. I think this is the first time that one of the 'new' trees has played an important part in one of my pictures. I hope that these will secure the Blenheim landscape for the future.
Blenheim Palace is the home of the Duke of Marlborough; it was given to his ancestor John Churchill following his victory at the Battle of Blenheim in 1704. Blenheim is also the birthplace of Sir Winston Churchill.
Blenheim is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Croome, Worcestershire. Both house and gardens at Croome Court were designed by Capability Brown between 1751-2, rebuilding an earlier house from the 1640s. The estate was requisitioned in WW2, but was not used for troops, being offered to the Dutch Royal family, but nearby, and partly within the grounds, RAF Defford was established, an important location for the Telecommunications Research Establishment. They left in 1957 as the runways were too short. The house was sold by the Croome Estate Trust in 1948, and became St Josephs Special School until 1979. Taken over by the Hare Krishna movement, it became known as Chaitanya College with involvement from George Harrison, who created recording studios within the house. They left in 1984 and the house was used for several short-term activities, including a training centre; apartments; a restaurant and conference centre; a hotel and golf course, and a private family home. In 2007, it was purchased by the Croome Heritage Trust, who leased it to the National Trust. Croome Court is grade 1 listed.
Croome D'Abitot, near Pershore, Worcestershire, West Midlands, England - Croome Court, High Green
June 2025
Prior Park Landscape Garden surrounding the Prior Park estate south of Bath, Somerset, England, was designed in the 18th century by the poet Alexander Pope and the landscape gardener Capability Brown, and is now owned by the National Trust
Palladian architecture bridge (one of only four of this design left in the world)
Blenheim Palace is one of the finest examples of the English baroque style. It was constructed under the direction of the “A list” of early 18th Century designers, Sir John Vanburgh, Nicholas Hawksmoor and Capability Brown. UNESCO recognised the palace as a World Heritage Site in 1987.
The birthplace of Winston Churchill
The 'Saxon' tower was the brainchild of Capability Brown and designed by James Wyatt in 1794 in the form of a castle, and built for Lady Coventry in 1798–1799. The tower was built on a beacon hill, where beacons were lit on special occasions. Lady Coventry wondered whether a beacon on this hill could be seen from her house in Worcester — about 22 miles (35 km) away — and sponsored the construction of the folly to find out. Indeed, the beacon could be seen clearly.
We took a trip to the National Trust property of Croome Court in Worcestershire yesterday. It is a beautiful country home and estate. The gardens designed and landscaped by Capability Brown - a delight to walk around on a warm sunny day.
I couldn't resist this group of laid back visitors ... and their dog. LOL the dog was trying to get dad up to play - dad wasn't budging!
Capability Brown was a was a well known English gardener and landscape architect (born 1716 died1783 )He worked on many of the parks of well known English country house
Capability Brown's landscaping at Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire. A B&W 10 stop ND filter was used to give a 25 second exposure.
To expand the operational capability of the air expeditonary wing, I needed an eye in the sky - an airborne surveillance and command post: an AWACS in its pre 2000 configuration. It is 88 studs long by 84 studs wide. As far as I can tell, at this scale, it is unique. The only functional elements are a free turning radome and front crew door. As the wings are long and made of slopes laying horizontaly, I've used a fishing line tied to engines #2 & 3 to hold them into position. The system is discrete and works very well - for transport and display purpose.
Following on from my post about David Garrick's villa in Hampton, this is his rather splendid Temple to Shakespeare, which he built in his riverside garden.
Garrick, widely regarded as England’s greatest actor/manager, was devoted to Shakespeare and frequently appeared in his plays on the London stage. He consulted the landscape gardener Lancelot 'Capability' Brown, who lived nearby at Hampton Court, about the grounds, and it was he who suggested building a grotto-like tunnel (which still exists) under the road between the house and the riverside part of the grounds. He also suggested creating serpentine paths, which have recently been reconstructed in the Temple Lawn gardens.
The octagonal Temple was built in 1755-6 not only to entertain visitors but also to house some of Garrick’s mementos to his beloved Shakespeare, which he had collected over the years. The riverside grounds are freely open to the public, and the Temple is open on selected days.
Garrick died in 1779 and, appropriately, was buried in Westminster Abbey beneath the foot of Shakespeare.
Information adapted from the Twickenham Museum’s website: www.twickenham-museum.org.uk
Temple Newsam House is a magnificent Tudor/Jacobean House over 500 years old surrounded by extensive gardens. The present gardens were landscaped by Capability Brown in the 1760s and are a stunning place to visit at any time of the year - and no better time than autumn.
Probably Prior Park's best known feature, the Palladian Bridge, is an elegant and eye-catching example of architecture. The Palladian Bridge at Prior Park Landscape Garden was built in 1755, the last of three of its kind built in England.
It was created in the 18th century by local entrepreneur Ralph Allen, with advice from 'Capability' Brown and the poet Alexander Pope.
Palladian architecture reached the height of its popularity in England during the 18th century.
Venetian architect Andrea Palladio inspired the building of structures such as the bridges at Prior Park and at Stourhead.
Palladio himself was influenced by the classical architecture of the ancient Greeks and the ancient Romans.
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Kirkharle Hall was a country house at Kirkharle, the former seat of the Loraine family, now much reduced and in use as a farmhouse. The estate church is dedicated to St Wilfrid (634-709AD) and is Grade 1 listed, with most of the building dating from 1336.
Kirkharle's most famous son is Capability Brown, the notable landscape gardener.
Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown (bapt.1716 -1783) was born in Kirkharle and baptised in St Wilfrid's Church, Kirkharle, on 30 August 1716. His actual birthdate is not known. He was the fifth of the six children of William Brown, a yeoman farmer and Ursula, née Hall, who had also worked in the big house on the Kirkharle estate.[11]
Lancelot attended the village school in nearby Cambo until the age of 16. In 1732, the young Brown began work at the Kirkharle estate, learning many skills in gardening, planting and land reclamation, leaving to further his career in 1739.[11]
Sir William Loraine, 4th Baronet, inherited the estate in 1755 aged 6 and when he came of age, Brown produced a design plan for him to replace the early 18th century formal gardens with a more naturalistic landscape, probably around 1770.[10] Brown's scheme included single trees, tree belts, a serpentine lake and a new approach, but was only partially implemented. The lake was not created, only part of the semi-circular approach was laid out, and the walled garden may not have been built.
Thanks to Wickipedia
Croome Court and Landscape in Worcestershire was
Designed by Capability Brown with plenty of help from
Robert Adam. The land used to extend to around 20,000 acres
Back in the late 18th Centaury.
These days there's about 700 acres, plenty for a good walk.
Taken at Croome Park... the bridge spans the lake created by "Capability" Brown as part of his design for the park. Croome was one of his earliest commissions and this year we are celebrating the 300th anniversary of Brown's birth.
The gateweay to Roche Abbey (by Maltby Beck), a ruined Cisterian monastery situated near Maltby, in South Yorkshire. The abbey is at the Northern edge of what was once Sherwood forest, and Robin Hood is said to have taken mass there regularly.
Like most other abbeys, it was dissolved by Henry VIII in 1538, following which the local community despoiled it for timber, stone and lead, as well as the property within. The remains were left to fall to ruin, and the land came into the hands of the Earl of Scarborouh, who emplyed the famous landscape gardener Capability Brown who buried much of it under turf in the late 1700s. There it remained for two centuries until excavated in the 1920s, and is now cared for by English Heritage.
Taken on a walk with the NTU Chaplaincy, using a Pentax Optio S.
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By the artificial lake created by Capability Brown for the Duke of Marlborough Estate at Blenheim, Oxfordshire
Soldiers from the 53rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team of the Florida National Guard move a litter during pre-mobilization training at Camp Blanding Joint Training Center. The team recently used the Exportable Combat Training Capability or XCTC, which gave them a more realistic feel to their training. (Photo by 1st Lt. Paul O'Leary, Florida National Guard)
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Chatsworth House est un vaste château situé dans le Derbyshire, en Angleterre, à quelques kilomètres de la ville de Bakewell. Édifié originellement au xvie siècle pour Bess of Hardwick, comtesse de Shrewsbury, Chatsworth est le fief des ducs de Devonshire, dont le patronyme est Cavendish. Le domaine se trouve sur la rive gauche de la rivière Derwent et dans les limites du Parc national du Peak District.
En 1687, l'architecte William Talman reconstruisit le château dans un esprit baroque et en fit la première des country houses d'Angleterre. Au xviiie siècle, le parc fut redessiné dans le goût néoclassique par le paysagiste Capability Brown et agrémenté de fabriques par l'architecte James Paine.
Le château, ouvert au public, contient d'importantes collections de mobilier et d'objets d'art ainsi que des toiles de maître, dont la première version des Bergers d'Arcadie de Nicolas Poussin.
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Chatsworth House is a stately home in Derbyshire, England, in the Derbyshire Dales 3.5 miles (5.6 km) northeast of Bakewell and 9 miles (14 km) west of Chesterfield (SK260700). The seat of the Duke of Devonshire, it has been home to the Cavendish family since 1549.
Standing on the east bank of the River Derwent, Chatsworth looks across to the low hills that divide the Derwent and Wye valleys. The house, set in expansive parkland and backed by wooded, rocky hills rising to heather moorland, contains an important collection of paintings, furniture, Old Master drawings, neoclassical sculptures, books and other artefacts. Chatsworth has been selected as the United Kingdom's favourite country house several times.
Created in the style of Capability Brown, that great designer, whose forte was creating “natural” landscapes, the park has broad vistas of parkland, bounded by extensive plantings of a variety of deciduous trees, including redwoods, sycamore, cherry, yew and plane. Coppices of beech, oak, chestnuts and lime dot the open parkland.
Water is an important element in the creation of such settings and the estate was fortunate in that the Awbeg River flowed through it and was diverted to form lakes, cascades and ponds, greatly enhancing the beauty of the setting. And, of course, where you have waterways, you must have bridges and there are a few delightful arched stone bridges framed by abundant foliage
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Stowe Gardens
The history of the gardens
In the 1690s, Stowe had a modest early-baroque parterre garden, owing more to Italy than to France, but it has not survived, and, within a relatively short time, Stowe became widely-renowned for its magnificent gardens created by the man who owned Stowe at the time, Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham. In the 1710s and 1720s, Charles Bridgeman, the garden designer, and John Vanbrugh, the architect, designed an English baroque park, inspired by the work of London, Wise and Switzer.
In the 1730s, William Kent and James Gibbs were appointed to work with Bridgeman, who died in 1738. Kent had already created the glorious garden at Rousham House, and he was joined by Giacomo Leoni to build temples, bridges, and other garden structures. Kent's Temple of Ancient Virtue (1734) looks across the Elysian Fields to the Shrine of British Worthies.
In 1741, Capability Brown was appointed head gardener. He worked with Kent until the latter's death in 1748, before his own departure in 1751. In these years, Bridgeman's octagonal pond and eleven-acre lake were given a "naturalistic" shape, and a Palladian bridge was added in 1744. Brown contrived a Grecian valley which, despite its name, is an abstract composition of landform and woodland. As Loudon remarked in 1831, "nature has done little or nothing; man a great deal, and time has improved his labours".
View from the Terrace over the South lawn. A Capability Brown landscape. The tent and disturbed ground near the lake are part of an excavation of Gawthorpe Hall which stood on the site until the early 1700's when Edwin Lascelles had Harewood House built.
'The Harry Potter Tree', Blenheim Park, Oxfordshire.
This took me totally by surprise as I rounded a corner on the narrow winding footpath around this part of the lakeshore. (And it is quite scary).
Very few people around despite the promise of decent weather, and I had the place to myself.
This amazing Cedar of Lebanon had role in the 2007 film Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and stands overlooking the lake and bridge, close to the place I took a recently posted image of them.
Now sensitively fenced off by a wicker fence to avoid over-excited children (many now adults) doing any damage it is probably part of the original planting by Capability Brown when he created the lake and landscaped the park between 1763-1774.
The tree is only a few yards from the bridge on a very beautiful, unsigned and easily to miss path that winds along part of the lakeshore and woodlands and can be part of a very attractive series of looping walks.
It can also be accessed FREE OF CHARGE as it is one of the public footpaths that cross the park.
(The Blenheim Palace website doesn't mention this annoying gap in their extraordinary commercialisation of the estate. Unless I've misread it there is a very hefty entrance fee of £28 that says 'Park and Formal Garden Only'. Fine(ish) if you want to visit the formal gardens which I wouldn't recommend at this time of year.
However I suspect by the amount of people strolling around, this is not policed, and a friendly blind-eye is turned to locals and dog-walkers.)
There are two free public footpath entrances quite close to each other just on the outskirts of Woodstock on the Chipping Norton road. As the road drops down to the little river as it leaves Woodstock, there is an entrance through a green gate that looks like a driveway entrance (painted ubiquitous Farrow and Ball 'Lichen' green as is the unspoken law in this part of the world.)
The other entrance is about 100 yards up the hill at the end of the raised pavement...
Both completely legal, loved and well used.
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Broadway Tower is a folly on Broadway Hill, near the village of Broadway, in the English county of Worcestershire, at the second-highest point of the Cotswolds (after Cleeve Hill). Broadway Tower's base is 1,024 feet (312 metres) above sea level. The tower itself stands 65 feet (20 metres) high.
The "Saxon" tower was the brainchild of Capability Brown and designed by James Wyatt in 1794, in the form of a castle, and built for Lady Coventry in 1798-99. The tower was built on a "beacon" hill, where beacons were lit on special occasions. Lady Coventry wondered whether a beacon on this hill could be seen from her house in Worcester — about 22 miles (35 km) away — and sponsored the construction of the folly to find out. Indeed, the beacon could be seen clearly.
Over the years, the tower was home to the printing press of Sir Thomas Phillipps, and served as a country retreat for artists including William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones who rented it together in the 1880s. William Morris was so inspired by Broadway Tower and other ancient buildings that he founded the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings in 1877.
Today, the tower is a tourist attraction and the centre of a country park with various exhibitions open to the public at a fee, as well as a gift shop and restaurant. The place is on the Cotswold Way and can be reached by following the Cotswold Way from the A44 road at Fish Hill, or by a steep climb out of Broadway village.
Near the tower is a memorial to the crew of an A.W.38 Whitley bomber that crashed there during a training mission in June 1943.
In the late 1950s, Broadway Tower monitored nuclear fallout in England; an underground ROC Corps bunker was built 50 yards from the Tower. Manned continuously from 1961 and designated as a master post, the bunker was one of the last such Cold War bunkers constructed and, although officially stood down in 1991, the bunker is now one of the few remaining fully equipped facilities in England.
Sheffield Park Garden is an informal landscape garden five miles east of Haywards Heath, in East Sussex, England. It was originally laid out in the 18th century by Capability Brown, and further developed in the early years of the 20th century by its then owner, Arthur Gilstrap Soames. It is now owned by the National Trust.
The gardens originally formed part of the estate of the adjacent Sheffield Park House, a gothic country house, which is still in private ownership. It was also firstly owned by the West Family and later by the Soames family until in 1925 the estate was sold by Arthur Granville Soames, who had inherited it from his childless uncle, Arthur Gilstrap Soames.
Sheffield Park as an estate is mentioned in the Domesday Book. In August 1538, Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, entertained Henry VIII here. By 1700, the Deer Park had been partially formalised by Lord De La Warr who planted avenues of trees radiating from the house and cleared areas to establish lawns. In the late 1700s, James Wyatt remodelled the house in the fashionable Gothic style and Capability Brown was commissioned to landscape the garden. The original four lakes form the centrepiece. Humphry Repton followed Brown in 1789–1790. In 1796, the estate was sold to John Holroyd, created Baron Sheffield in 1781. It is particularly noted for its plantings of trees selected for autumn colour, including many Black Tupelos.
By 1885, an arboretum was being established, consisting of both exotic and native trees. After Arthur Gilstrap Soames purchased the estate in 1910, he continued large-scale planting. During World War II the house and garden became the headquarters for a Canadian armoured division, and Nissen huts were sited in the garden and woods. The estate was split up and sold in lots in 1953. The National Trust purchased approximately 40 ha in 1954, now up to 80 ha with subsequent additions. It is home to the National Collection of Ghent azaleas.
In 1876 the third Earl of Sheffield laid out a cricket pitch. It was used on 12 May 1884 for the first cricket match between England and Australia. The Australian team won by an innings and 6 runs.