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Compton Castle is a medieval fortress with high walls, towers and a portcullis, is set in a landscape of rolling hills and orchards. Compton Castle is a . It has been home to the Gilbert family for nearly 600 years, including Sir Humphrey Gilbert - half-brother to Sir Walter Raleigh.
A Compton Tortoiseshell Butterfly catching some April sunshine alongside Mourning Cloak Butterflies after a winter hibernation. Seen in Bronte Creek Provincial Park, Oakville, Ontario.
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Compton Castle is a medieval fortress with high walls, towers and a portcullis, is set in a landscape of rolling hills and orchards. Compton Castle is a . It has been home to the Gilbert family for nearly 600 years, including Sir Humphrey Gilbert - half-brother to Sir Walter Raleigh.
A misty morning captured from a hilltop in Dorset, looking at the village of Compton Abbas surrounded by rolling mist with St. Mary's church spire and a few trees above the mist...
Making use of the longer lens on the Sony crop sensor camera to get in tighter so as not to have to crop the image during processing and reduce the image size.
Captured at 150mm I would have needed around 225mm on the full frame which one day I will get around to purchasing.
Compton Castle is a fortified manor house in Devon, a few miles from Torquay.
Origiinally the manor house was built in the mid-14th century. The fortress-like front was added about 1520. Although some of the building was in ruins by the 18th century, restoration of the central hall was completed during the 1950s prior to coming into the hands of the National Trust. It is listed as a Grade 1 set of buildings.
(3 image HDR).. Had a little halloween fun.. half baking this HDR image of a very rare medieval fortress.. which was home for nearly 600 years to the Gilbert family.. including.. Sir Humphrey Gilbert.. - half-brother to.. Sir Walter Raleigh..
Hope you like it.. have a great day & thanks for looking..
A little Info..
'The walls are three feet thick local limestone with red sandstone and Beer stone dressings'..
'Missiles could be dropped through ‘machicolations’ - projections from the roofline with slots in the floor'..
'The defensive curtain wall surrounding the castle is 7.3 metres high'..
'In 1583, in the name of Queen Elizabeth I, Sir Humphrey Gilbert colonised Newfoundland'..
'Two years later his half brother, Sir Walter Raleigh, started planning the Roanoke Colony in North Carolina'..
'Sir Humphrey’s youngest son Raleigh Gilbert continued exploring, settling the Popham Colony in Maine in 1607'..
A Grade I listed Robert Adam mansion set in Capability Brown landscaped parkland, the house is now an art gallery...well worth a visit, a lovely place to spend a few hours....inside and out!
www.comptonverney.org.uk/110575-2/
Textures with thanks to Kerstin Frank and flypaper.
Another one of the storms from last year , this one was taken looking out from Compton bay ,and is a few sucessive strikes stacked together.
Compton is a small hamlet near Wetherby in West Yorkshire, England consisting mainly of a pig farm and a horse stables. This pond is located between the farm and stables
The 39 foot-tall Compton's Double Falls, in the Upper Buffalo Wilderness of the Ozark National Forest.
Popular with windsurfers and wave surfers this bay has some interesting rock structures at low tide.
Freshwater bay and village in the distance in the centre between the cliffs.
So a long exposure image with Lee super topper ND15 filter, ISO 50, f/8.0 and shutter at 123 seconds.