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Finally got a new camera and immediately went to Great Sand Dunes National Park to have fun playing with the shadows, contours, and textures. I had forgot how much fun it is shooting these scenes. A new scene would present itself every couple of steps.
My new camera set up is a Nikon D850. My Canon gear got stolen out of my truck back in December and I had been thinking about switching to Nikon, so this provided a good opportunity. So far, I'm very impressed but there are a few things that I'm getting used to. I have a lot of images from the sand dunes coming.
A trip to the Christmas market in Truro with the Google Pixel Pro 6 to see how it handles low light conditions.
All Jpeg images edited with Google b&w pre-set.
Certainly alot easier than taking the camera and a selection of fast prime lenses also people tend not to take too much notice of a phone.
Would the images have been that much better with the camera RAW files and post processing with Lightroom?
My tramping buddy leads the way along the ridge as we head for Tama Peak (high point to the left). I follow behind, stopping to grab a shot here and there then hurrying to catch up...
A reminder of these 4 days at the camping with my boy.
We had a really good times,
2 years ago he finished the walk on my shoulders, this year he was leading the way. "Tempus fugit"
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Belton House is a Grade I listed country house in Belton near Grantham, Lincolnshire, England. The mansion is surrounded by formal gardens and a series of avenues leading to follies within a larger wooded park. Belton has been described as a compilation of all that is finest of Carolean architecture, the only truly vernacular style of architecture that England had produced since the Tudor period. The house has also been described as the most complete example of a typical English country house; the claim has even been made that Belton's principal facade was the inspiration for the modern British motorway signs which give directions to stately homes. Only Brympton d'Evercy has been similarly lauded as the perfect English country house. For three hundred years, Belton House was the seat of the Brownlow and Cust family, who had first acquired land in the area in the late 16th century. Between 1685 and 1688 Sir John Brownlow and his wife had the present mansion built. Despite great wealth they chose to build a modest country house rather than a grand contemporary Baroque palace. The contemporary, if provincial, Carolean style was the selected choice of design. However, the new house was fitted with the latest innovations such as sash windows for the principal rooms, and more importantly completely separate areas for the staff. As the Brownlows rose from baronets to barons upward to earls and then once again became barons, successive generations made changes to the interior of the house which reflected their changing social position and tastes, yet the fabric and design of the house changed little. Following World War I (a period when the Machine Gun Corps was based in the park), the Brownlows, like many of their peers, were faced with mounting financial problems. In 1984 they gave the house away—complete with most of its contents. The recipients of their gift, the National Trust, today fully open Belton to the public. It is in a good state of repair and visited by many thousands of tourists each year The Brownlow family, a dynasty of lawyers, began accumulating land in the Belton area from approximately 1598. In 1609 they acquired the reversion of the manor of Belton itself from the Pakenham family, who finally sold the manor house to Sir John Brownlow I in 1619. The old house was situated near the church in the garden of the present house and remained largely unoccupied, since the family preferred their other houses elsewhere. John Brownlow had married an heiress but was childless. He became attached to two of his more distant blood relations: a great-nephew, also called John Brownlow, and a great-niece, Alice Sherard. The two cousins married each other in 1676 when both were aged 16; three years later, the couple inherited the Brownlow estates from their great-uncle together with an income of £9,000 per annum (about £ 1.17 million in present day terms) and £20,000 in cash (equivalent to about £ 2.59 million now). They immediately bought a town house in the newly fashionable Southampton Square in Bloomsbury, and decided to build a new country house at Belton. Work on the new house began in 1685. The architect thought to have been responsible for the initial design is William Winde, although the house has also been attributed to Sir Christopher Wren, while others believe the design to be so similar to Roger Pratt's Clarendon House, London, that it could have been the work of any talented draughtsman. The assumption popular today, that Winde was the architect, is based on the stylistic similarity between Belton and Coombe Abbey, which was remodelled by Winde between 1682 and 1685. Further evidence is a letter dated 1690, in which Winde recommends a plasterer who worked at Belton to another of his patrons. Whoever the architect, Belton follows closely the design of Clarendon House, completed in 1667. This great London town house (demolished circa 1683) has been one of the most admired buildings of its era due to "its elegant symmetry and confident and common-sensical design". Sir John Summerson described Clarendon House as "the most influential house of its time among those who aimed at the grand manner" and Belton as "much the finest surviving example of its class". John and Alice Brownlow assembled one of the finest teams of craftsmen available at the time to work on the project. This dream team was headed by the master mason William Stanton who oversaw the project. His second in command, John Thompson, had worked with Sir Christopher Wren on several of the latter's London churches, while the chief joiner John Sturges had worked at Chatsworth under William Talman. The wrought-ironworker John Warren worked under Stanton at Denham Place, Buckinghamshire, and the fine wrought iron gates and overthrow at Belton may be his. Thus so competent were the builders of Belton that Winde may have done little more than provide the original plans and drawings, leaving the interpretation to the on-site craftsmen. This theory is further demonstrated by the external appearance of the adjoining stable block. More provincial, and less masterful in proportion, it is known to have been entirely the work of Stanton.
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I took this photo on the Rham-Plateau which makes up part of the former fortifications of Luxembourg city. It is inside a tunnel that leads to higher ground on the city wall and a munitions depot. When I explored it I immediately realized that the light and rails would make a great tunnel photo. But there was nobody there! So I waited at the entrance for people to come by and asked them if they were up for a short impromptu photo shoot. Amazingly, they went for it. I was very happy. This is one of my favorite photos from the trip.
Sixty years ago toward the end of July each summer, my folks packed me into our faithful dark green 1951 Buick Special and dropped me off for a week long Bible Camp at Lake Koronis near Paynesville, Minnesota. The week was a great respite from the drudgery of farm work that filled my days on the farm.
The camp was where many aspiring young people eagerly met to sort through a pool of potential mates from several surrounding states while innocently using Bible study as a method of approach.
Each morning except for closing day on Sunday, an amateur trumpet player would irritate us campers as he pierced the early morning hour waking us up for a day of festivities.
The first order of the day called for everyone to groggily assemble on an open part of the campgrounds where we were led by a dear man, Jay Walden from Minneapolis, who had a great voice he used to lead the campers in calisthenics that he exuberantly started off with jumping jacks while atop a picnic table.
There was a great variance in enthusiasm from his audience. There were a few compliant campers that were like this swan but for the most part the majority were more similar to the half dozen ducks directly behind the swan to the right who are quite content to sit and watch and probably make murmured comments.
(Photographed near Cambridge, MN)
Last Sunday's walk, New South Wales, Australia.
Saturday challenge - Leading lines
52 in 2022 challenge/27 Pointing the way
Emily and I spontaneously decided to drive up to Lancelin yesterday just to explore and spend the day doing something out of the norm. Of course I brought the camera along just in case I found any interesting dunes. Between all of the dunes covered in tyre tread marks from the motorcyclists, this dune stood out and caught my eye.
Canon 5D Mk II + 17-40mm F4 L USM
The beautiful Home Road. Bridge, Dublin, OH
I shot this in color and B&W during the blue hour facing west after sunset and decided that monochrome worked best, the lines were gold so I needed to tone them down a bit.