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A visit to the National Trust run Stowe in Buckinghamshire.
Stowe is the creation of many 18th- century landscape designers, architects and craftsmen, and showcases some of Capability Brown's finest work. It's a towering achievement that still influences garden design today.
After early contributions from Sir John Vanbrugh and William Kent, Stowe's first garden designer, Charles Bridgeman, kickstarted the radical transformation away from formality. Lord Cobham funded huge development to create a grand canvas of idealised nature. Grassland, trees, lakes, temples and monuments: all are meticulously constructed to shape perfect views. By the mid-19th century, Richard Temple, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, ultimately aimed to impress Queen Victoria and outdo the neighbouring Claydon estate. This showmanship and rivalry ultimately contributed to bankruptcy.
Eleven Acre Lake at Stowe.
All the butterflies at the Butterfly Farm are so tame! This little beauty stayed on my hand for a good 3 mins whilst I slowly walked around the huge green house.
Location: Butterfly Farm, Stratford Upon Avon.
Taken with: Lumix- DMC-G2
Edited with: Photoshop CS2
"Are you sure about this, Charlotte?" Jason asked nervously.
Charlotte threw her arm around his shoulder and gave him a smile. "Of course, Jason."
"What's with all of the equiptment?"
"Nothing, nothing," Charlotte said quickly, widening her eyes inoccently. "Just lie still and it'll all be over soon."
"Is this going to hurt?"
"I've got everything under control."
"That's what I'm afraid of."
Charlotte laughed. "Don't worry."
"Will this kill me?"
"No, silly, why would you think that?" Charlotte asked with sugary sweetness in her voice.
"There's a coffin over there."
"That's to hold my, ah, chemicals."
"Chemicals?!"
Charlotte laughed and stood up. "Trust me."
"Wait, what's that needle for?"
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No, this is NOT an excerpt of SunRaze. But I'm sure Charlotte wished it would be.
This is just something fun I did when playing around shooting for SRz2.1
Petworth House in Petworth, West Sussex, England, is a late 17th-century mansion, rebuilt in 1688 by Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, and altered in the 1870s by Anthony Salvin. The site was previously occupied by a fortified manor house founded by Henry de Percy, the 13th-century chapel and undercroft of which still survive.
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/erddig/
Erddig, near Wrexham. A National Trust property.
I am not sure but there is something re-assuring in the way this man looks. Or in the way he is. Something tender and wise.
Stowe Landscape Gardens, Buckinghamshire.
The National Trust.
Left - Congreve's Monument, 1736.
By William Kent (1685-1748).
For Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham (1675-1749).
Grade l listed.
A memorial to William Congreve, the playwright. It is in the form of a pyramid with an urn carved on one side with Apollo's head, pan pipes and masks of comedy and tragedy; the truncated pyramid supports the sculpture of an ape looking at itself in a mirror. , the playwright. It stands on a small island in the Octagon Lake.
Right - The Pebble Alcove.
By William Kent (1685-1748).
For Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham (1675-1749).
Grade ll* listed.
Built of stone before 1739. It takes the form of an exedra enclosed by a stone work surmounted by a pediment. The exedra is decorated with coloured pebbles, including the family coat of arms below which is the Temple family motto TEMPLA QUAM DELECTA (How Beautiful are thy Temples).
This nice lady in the middle helped us out to find our way to the black cat delivery service. She was a legend - but couldn't say 'loch'.
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire.
The National Trust.
Grade l listed.
Butler's Pantry.
Fireplace by Longden & Co, Sheffield.
Detail.
With peeling paintwork and overgrown courtyards, Calke Abbey tells the story of the dramatic decline of a country house estate. The house and stables are little restored, with many abandoned areas vividly portraying a period in the 20th century when numerous country houses did not survive to tell their story.
The site was an Augustinian priory from the 12th century until its dissolution by Henry VIII. The present building, named Calke Abbey in 1808, was never actually an abbey, but is a Baroque mansion built between 1701 and 1704.
The house was owned by the Harpur family for nearly 300 years until it was passed to the National Trust in 1985 in lieu of death duties. Today, the house is open to the public and many of its rooms are deliberately displayed in the state of decline in which the house was handed to the Trust.
Old equipment in the lower level of the Orpheum.
The Twin Cities Photography Group on Meetup.com took a back stage/on stage/around the stage tour of the Hennepin Theater Trust theaters.
Photos from other members of the group are at www.meetup.com/tcphotogroup/photos/1152290/