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Rare landscape shot for me. Was on orders on holiday to not just come home with insect photos. 😃 Still unsure of the edit... I've not really done many landscapes. Need lots more practice and lightroom swotting.
I've previously posted a deliberately grainy processing of this shot to disguise the severe noise caused by the very high ISO needed to shoot handheld 80 minutes after sunset.
This version was an experiment with the Prime noise reduction module in the Elite version of DXO Photolab 3, aided by a reduction in microcontrast. Pretty decent for ISO 12,800 I think.
It does take quite a lot of processing time (you find out when it takes about a minute to save the image as a JPEG, because that's when the processing happens) but definitely worth it. This was about the noisiest worthwhile image I could find to test it, it's very unusual for me to shoot at such a high ISO.
It might be less satisfactory if there were more detail in the image that you wanted to keep - it would rule out the substantial reduction of microcontrast and you can run up against the limitations of detail capture in very low light - but the noise reduction is very good at distinguishing detail from noise and took out a vast amount of noise from this image on its own.
Church of St Mary, Hennock Devon
The Village is recorded in the 1086 Domesday Survey. Not long after the Conquest a family named " de Hainoc " were settled here , one of them William " Lord of Heniock"' had an heiress Beatrix who brought the manor to her husband Sir Gerrard de Clist in whose family it remained for several generations.
There was possibly a now lost Saxon church elsewhere in the area which was replaced here in stone in the 12c. This was given to Torre Abbey in 1207 who presented the vicars starting with Symon de Sancto Lando, installed on September 3rd 1259, - (Torre Abbey were patrons until 1539).
The church now consists of an aisled nave, chancel, south Lady chapel, south porch, western tower and a western vestry.
The two stage tower now holding 4 bells, survives from c1250 together with the holy water stoup in the porch and the c1170 Norman font, after the rest of the church including the screens and ceilure (decorated ceiling over the rood screen) were entirely rebuilt c1450 or possibly a little later as the arms of Bishop Booth , Bishop of Exeter 1466 - 1478 are placed in one of the windows
The 15c screen is of good Perpendicular work - The groining and cornice were probably removed in 1758. The doors remain
and It has been partially restored in 1956 by Herbert Read with the screen images of saints restored by Anna Hulbert between 1977 - 1983. Previously the painted figures were obliterated by a coating of oak paint, others owe their preservation to the high backed pews which were put in the church in 1758. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/0895245se1
The registers date from 1541 - The birth of Edward VI. Is thus mentioned : — "The eleventh day of October, the year of our Lord God 1537, was borne Prince Edwarde, which was the 29th yeare of our Sovereigne Lord, King Henry VIII., by the grace of God King of England, France, and Ireland. God send him good olde age, and his father a long and prosperous reigne, Amen. Thomas Herle, vicar of Hennock."
In early 19c the church interior underwent significant change, medieval stained glass was removed, access paths were dug into the church yard and many graves were disturbed. The Rev. Washer's headstone (1604) now lies by the Lych Gate, this can't be his original burial place because this is where one of the row of poor houses once stood. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/pA2883TKD4
It was thoroughly restored in 1875 at a cost of £1400, raised by subscription, T. Wills Esq. of Kelly giving £1000. At that time the rood staircase was blocked up (the external turret having been removed) but can still be seen in the south aisle - . In the upper doorway stands the figure of a little angel with a trumpet, this figure was probably previously on the canopy of a 17c restoration pulpit www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/97h9747qp1 At some time a fireplace (now blocked up) was installed in the south wall just inside the south door, its chimney was one of the porch turrets
"Electric light was installed in 1946 to commemorate the allied victories of May and August 1945. Half the cost of the installation was given by an evacuee as a thank offering and in memory of the Rev A Tobitt, late vicar of the parish. flic.kr/p/2mvpMSA
John Salmon CCL www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1730992
33207 and 33012 head the Devon Crompton railtour passing Rewe with the 1Z39 Coleford Junction to London Waterloo
Royal Coat of Arms of Charles II who visited Dartmouth in 1671 and allowed this to be displayed here "forever", It appears to have been on the south transept gallery until removed in late 19c www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/3zC9v10410
- Church of St Saviour, Dartmouth Devon
Michael Garlick CCL www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7060696
U60 is on the return to Grundy after picking up Coke Mtys in Williamson with 4333 running the show at Ought-One on the Buchanan Branch.
Dartmouth is a town and civil parish in the English county of Devon. It is a tourist destination set on the western bank of the estuary of the River Dart, which is a long narrow tidal ria that runs inland as far as Totnes. It lies within the South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and South Hams district.
Dart Lifeboat Station was reopened in 2007, the first time that a lifeboat had been stationed in the town since 1896. It has initially been kept in a temporary building in Coronation Park.
In 2010, a fire seriously damaged numerous historical properties in Fairfax Place and Higher Street. Several were Tudor and Grade I or Grade II listed buildings.
The Port of Dartmouth Royal Regatta takes place annually over three days at the end of August. The event sees the traditional regatta boat races along with markets, fun fairs, community games, musical performances, air displays including the Red Arrows and fireworks. A Royal Navy guard ship is often present at the event. Other cultural events include beer festivals in February and July (the latter in Kingswear), a music festival and an art and craft weekend in June, a food festival in October and a Christmas candlelit event.
The Flavel Centre incorporates the public library and performance spaces, featuring films, live music and comedy and exhibitions.
Bayard's Cove has been used in several television productions, including The Onedin Line a popular BBC television drama series that ran from 1971 to 1980. Many of the scenes from the BBC's popular series Down to Earth, starring Ricky Tomlinson, were filmed at various locations around the town.
Notable tourist attractions include the Dartmouth Royal Naval College, Bayard's Cove Fort, Dartmouth Castle and the Dartmouth Steam Railway which terminates at Kingswear on the opposite bank of the river.
Boat cruises to nearby places along the coast (such as Torbay and Start Bay) and up the river (to Totnes, Dittisham and the Greenway Estate) are provided by several companies. The paddlesteamer PS Kingswear Castle returned to the town in 2013. The South West Coast Path National Trail passes through the town, and also through extensive National Trust coastal properties at Little Dartmouth and Brownstone (Kingswear). The Dart Valley Trail starts in Dartmouth, with routes either side of the River Dart as far as Dittisham, and continuing to Totnes via Cornworthy, Tuckenhay and Ashprington. The area has long been well regarded for yachting, and there are extensive marinas at Sandquay, Kingswear and Noss (approximately one mile north of Kingswear).
- Wikipedia
Barnstaple is the main town of North Devon, England, and possibly the oldest borough in the United Kingdom. It is a former river port, located at the lowest crossing point of the River Taw, flowing into the Barnstaple Bay, south of the Bristol Channel.
From the fourteenth century, it was licensed to export wool, since the merchants claimed that the town had been declared a free borough in Saxon times. This brought great wealth to Barnstaple, whose town centre still preserves a medieval layout and character. Later the town became an importer of Irish wool, but its harbour silted up, and it developed other industries, such as shipbuilding, foundries and sawmills, which today is no longer in use. Its Victorian market survives, with its high glass and timber roof on iron columns. Since 1974, Barnstaple has been a major civil parish governed by its own town council. The parish itself had a population of 24,034 as of 2017.
The East Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) landscape is characterised by intimate wooded combes, vast areas of heathland, fertile river valleys and breathtaking cliffs or hilltops. It includes the East Devon section of the Jurassic Coast - England's first natural World Heritage Site - and is a living, working landscape shaped by many centuries of farming activity.
The Devon Belle was a luxury train which ran between London Waterloo to Ilfracombe and Plymouth in the years 1947 until 1954. The train left Waterloo on the outward journey at 12.00, arriving at Ilfracombe at 17.27. The London bound service left Ilfracombe at 12.00 and arrived at Waterloo at 17.20
In this 1949 picture the train was headed by 35014 Nederland Line, it is the Ilfracombe to Waterloo service.
This picture, although far from sharp, shows us that even in his early days he took a pictorial approach using the platform trolley as a prop. I suspect that the un-sharp area is the film not lying flat in the camera, it is a 6cm x 6cm negative.
35014 was built at Eastleigh Works as 21C14, it entered service in April 1945, when Peter photographed it at Weybridge the loco had been renumbered, it was a little over 4 years old. Nederland Line was rebuilt in 1956 and the air smooth casing removed, it was withdrawn 26/03/1967 and cut at Cashmore's (Newport) in September 1967.
Peter Shoesmith 28/05/1949
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A stook, also referred to as a shock, is a circular or rounded arrangement of swathes of cut grain stalks placed on the ground in a field. Typically sheaves of grains such as wheat, barley and oats may be 'stooked' so they are ready for threshing.
I've just uploaded it to Redbubble if anyone is interested in the image as greeting cards, wall art etc. You can find it here: www.redbubble.com/people/sharonwills/works/27636877-devon...
A lovely day in Woolacombe in Devon is the natural habitat for VW campervans. Saw a number of modern variants but dear old 'Katy the camper' at 47 this year was by far the oldest...and slowest up those Devon hills.
We spent a few days in Lyme Regis in West Dorset recently, and called in at the cafe on the beach at Branscombe, out of shot to the left. This is one of my favourite places on the East Devon coast. It was really quite cold and blowy, but not enough to stop this group of elderly walkers who headed off along the coast path towards Seaton, with the lady in the red socks determinedly in the lead. Rather them than me!
The pretty little waterside village of Bere Ferrers in south-west Devon sits at the side of the River Tavy just before it joins the River Tamar on its journey to the sea via Plymouth Sound. The village is about three miles north of Saltash and the Tamar bridges. At high tide this path is covered, hence the large puddles.
A pair of recently acquired former CN SD40's head up this grain empty at Devon, MT shortly after sunrise on Oct 8, 1999. The day had started out cloudy but there were breaks starting to appear when we started chasing this train.
Yes, the Late, Great, Gregg Allman's son,
with his Uncle Duane's unique guitar-strap.
(age: 50) - Day Two - 2/14/23 - Valentine's Day
Bahamas - Platinum Theater - Late - 11:30 PM
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Allman/Betts Band - "Mahalo"
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Devon Allman - "These Days"
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