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Our go to after easter treats. The kids have soooooo much left over chocolate we had to melt it some of it down to make rice crispie cakes. They are delicious! Crunchy cereal and smooth sweet chocolate...
The new freshman class begins training with the Corps of Cadets a week and a half before classes begin. This prepares them to become the newest members of the Corps of Cadets.
Fireworks over the Isle of Wight to mark the end of Cowes Week.
Taken from between two beach huts in the driving rain at Hill Head in Hampshire
Our holiday park, Golden Sands, was located up this lane behind the industrial estate on the left.
When people tell you about the lovely scenery in Devon, they don't mention this bit!
QV building, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
Yes, it's that time of the year, Fashion Week. Those who know my work may not actually realize I'm based in Melbourne, having spent very little time here over the past couple of years. Anyway, something a little different from me.
Canon 1DsMkIII, 24-105mm 4L, ISO 200, f4, 1/1250. Combination of outdoor and stage lighting.
hard theme this week,
but here's my take on it! :)
i've been going through a weird shoe phase
the past few weeks (hence all the shoe pictures),
so that's what inspired this one.
52 Weeks Project.
Meet Inês.We did a great photoshoot last weekend and she acecpt to participate in my 52 Week project.
It was the first time for her, but she did it great.
Stobist: One Elinchrom D-Lite 4 set to 2/6 with soft box above model. One Elinchrom D-Lite 4 set to 2/6 with soft box bellow the model. One Cromalite 160 w/s flash bare set to full power to background.
Set up here
Photoshoot video coming soon.
Although I actually made this photo during week 1, I am including it for my submission for week two because I thought it was a good example of an interesting photo made with a long shutter speed. In this case, the shutter speed was 15 seconds. I was drawn to the way the light bright shone on the girl’s face and captured her facial expressions even as her positioning changed.
The artist whose work struck me this week was Michael Wesely’s collection of flowers, Stileben. In this collection, the flowers are displayed in a vase on a clean, monochrome surface with a plain wall in the background. The extended length of the exposure (i.e., several days) allowed the artist to capture the lifecycle of the flowers, as they can be observed in both their freshly-cut and wilted stages. I will admit that prior to this class, when I thought of “long exposures,” I thought of photos made over the course of multiple seconds or even minutes – I never considered you could make a photo over several days, weeks or years! The Stileban collection stood out to me because it demonstrated how even a “still” image could capture time or, in this case, the lifecycle of a plant.
This week's theme was "light".
I was able to get out and take a photo. <3 Brian and I were taking back a movie and I asked him to pull over on the side of the road so I could snap a photo of the headlights and streetlights. It was so cold and windy; I think that the cold front has finally reached us.
This photo made me think of a song by The Postal Service called "Sleeping In". I haven't listened to them since I was in high school; it brought back so many memories. I especially recalled sitting in the cold underneath the bridge by the river with close friends listening to traffic pass over us.
It amazes me what can trigger your memories.
So, this isn't anything fancy or extremely creative...it was cold and I couldn't stand the thought of asking Brian to stand out in the cold with me longer than I already had. <3
This is the second appearance in the Nifty Fifty group for Calvin. One of my most photographed resident models and perfect for this weeks furry theme. He always welcomes rubs under his furry chin.
For week 4, I took a headshot of my brother! I used my 135mm FD mount lens, and it proved to be wonderful once again. My brother was a good sport for putting up with me!
Croome Court is a mid 18th century Neo-Palladian mansion surrounded by an extensive landscaped parkland at Croome D'Abitot, near Pershore in south Worcestershire. The mansion and park were designed by Lancelot "Capability" Brown for George Coventry, 6th Earl of Coventry, and was Brown's first landscape design and first major architectural project. Some of the internal rooms of the mansion were designed by Robert Adam.
The mansion house is owned by Croome Heritage Trust, and is leased to the National Trust who operate it, along with the surrounding parkland, as a tourist attraction. The National Trust own the surrounding parkland, which is also open to the public.
Location[edit]
Croome Court is located near to Croome D'Abitot, in Worcestershire,[1] near Pirton, Worcestershire.[2] The wider estate was established on lands that were once part of the royal forest of Horewell.[3] Traces of these older landscapes, such as unimproved commons and ancient woodlands, can be found across the former Croome Estate.[4]
House[edit]
Croome Court South Portico
History[edit]
The foundations and core of Croome Court, including the central chimney stack structure, date back to the early 1640s.[5] Substantial changes to this early house were made by Gilbert Coventry, 4th Earl of Coventry.[6]
In 1751, George Coventry, the 6th Earl, inherited the estate, along with the existing Jacobean house. He commissioned Lancelot "Capability" Brown, with the assistance of Sanderson Miller, to redesign the house and estate.[7][1] It was Brown's "first flight into the realms of architecture" and a "rare example of his architectural work",[8] and it is an important and seminal work.[9] It was built between 1751 and 1752, and it and Hagley Hall are considered to be the finest examples of Neo-Palladian architecture in Worcestershire. Notable Neo-Palladian features incorporated into Croome Court include the plain exterior and the corner towers with pyramidal roofs (a feature first used by Inigo Jones in the design of Wilton House in Wiltshire).[1] Robert Adam worked on the interior of the building from 1760 onwards.[10]
The house has been visited by George III,[2][11] as well as Queen Victoria[7] during summers when she was a child, and George V (then Duke of York).[11]
A jam factory was built by the 9th Earl of Coventry, near to Pershore railway station, in about 1880, to provide a market for Vale of Evesham fruit growers in times of surplus. Although the Croome connection with jam making had ceased, during the First World War, the building was leased by the Croome Estate Trust to the Huddersfield Fruit Preserving Company as a pulping station.[12]
The First World War deeply affected Croome, with many local casualties, although the house was not requisitioned for the war effort. This is possibly because it was the home of the Lord Lieutenant of the County, who needed a residence for his many official engagements.[13]
During the Second World War Croome Court was requisitioned by the Ministry of Works and leased for a year to the Dutch Government as a possible refuge for Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands; to escape the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. However, evidence shows that they stayed two weeks at the most, perhaps because of the noise and fear created by the proximity of Defford Aerodrome. They later emigrated to Canada.[14]
In 1948 the Croome Estate Trust sold the Court, along with 38 acres (15 ha) of land, to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Birmingham, and the mansion became St Joseph's Special School, which was run by nuns[15] from 1950[11] until 1979.[15]
The house was listed on 11 August 1952; it is currently Grade I listed.[10]
In 1979 the hall was taken over by the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (Hare Krishna movement), who used it as their UK headquarters and a training college[16] called Chaitanya College,[15] run by 25 members of the movement.[16] During their tenure they repainted the Dining Room.[17] In 1984 they had to leave the estate for financial reasons. They held a festival at the hall in 2011.[16]
From 1984 onwards various owners tried to use the property as a training centre; apartments; a restaurant and conference centre; and a hotel and golf course,[15] before once more becoming a private family home,[2][15] with outbuildings converted to private houses.[15]
The house was purchased by the Croome Heritage Trust, a registered charity,[18] in October 2007,[19] and it is now managed by the National Trust as a tourist attraction. It opened to the public in September 2009, at which point six of the rooms had restored, costing £400,000, including the Saloon. It was estimated that another £4 million[2][20] to £4.8 million would be needed to restore the entire building. Fundraising activities for the restoration included a 2011 raffle for a Morgan sports car organised by Lord and Lady Flight. After the restoration is complete, a 999-year lease on the building will be granted to the National Trust.[21] An oral history project to record recollections about Croome was funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund.[15] As of 2009, the service wing was empty and in need of substantial repair.[22]
Exterior[edit]
The mansion is faced with Bath stone,[7] limestone ashlar, and has both north and south facing fronts. It has a basement and two stories, with three stories in the end pavilions. A slate roof, with pyramid roofs over the corner towers, tops the building, along with three pair-linked chimneys along the axis of the house.[10]
Both fronts have 11 bays, split into three central sets of three each, and one additional bay each side. The north face has a pedimented centre, with two balustraded staircases leading to a Roman Doric doorcase. The south face has a projecting Ionic tetrastyle portico and Venetian windows. It has a broad staircase, with cast stone sphinxes on each side, leading to a south door topped with a cornice on consoles. The wings have modillion cornice and balustrade.[10]
A two-story L-shaped service wing is attached to the east side of the mansion. It is made of red brick and stone, with slate roofs.[10] It was designed by Capability Brown in 1751-2.[22] On the far side of the service wing, a wall connects it to a stable court.[10]
Interior[edit]
The interior of the house was designed partially by Capability Brown, with plasterwork by G. Vassalli, and partially by Robert Adam, with plasterwork by J. Rose Jr. It has a central spine corridor. A stone staircase, with iron balusters, is at the east end.[10]
The entrance hall is on the north side of the building, and has four fluted Doric columns, along with moulded doorcases. To the east of the entrance hall is the dining room, which has a plaster ceiling and cornice, while to the west is a billiard room, featuring fielded panelling, a plaster cornice, and a rococo fireplace. The three rooms were probably decorated around 1758-59 by Capability Brown.[10] The dining room was vibrantly repainted by the Hare Krishnas in the 1970s-80s.[17]
The central room on the south side is a saloon, probably by Brown and Vassalli. It has an elaborate ceiling, with three panels, deep coving, and a cornice, along with two Ionic fireplaces, and Palladian doorcases.[10] George III was entertained by George Coventry, the 6th Earl, in the house's Saloon.[2] A drawing room is to the west of the saloon, and features rococo plasterwork and a marble fireplace.[10]
To the east of the saloon is the Tapestry Room.[10] This was designed in 1763-71, based on a design by Robert Adam, and contained tapestries and furniture covers possibly designed by Jacques Germain Soufflot, and made by Manufacture Nationale des Gobelins.[23] Around 1902 the ninth Earl sold the tapestries and seating to a Parisian dealer. In 1949 the Samuel H. Kress Foundation purchased the ceiling, floor, mantlepiece, chair rails, doors and the door surrounds, which were donated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in 1958. In 1959 the Kress Foundation also helped the Metropolitan Museum acquire the chair and sofa frames, which they recovered using the original tapestry seats.[7][23] A copy of the ceiling was installed in place of the original.[10] As of 2016, the room is displayed as it would have looked after the tapestries had been sold, with a jug and ewer on display as the only original decoration of the room that remains in it. The adjacent library room is used to explain what happened to the tapestry room;[17] the former library was designed by Adam, and was dismantled except for the marble fireplace.[10]
At the west side of the building is a long gallery,[10] which was designed by Robert Adam and installed between 1761 and 1766. It is the best preserved of the original interior (little of the rest has survived in situ).[1] It has an octagonal panelled ceiling, and plaster reliefs of griffins. A half-hexagonal bay faces the garden. The room also contains a marble caryatid fireplace designed by J Wilton.[10] As of 2016, modern sculptures are displayed in empty niches along the Long Gallery
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Sunday 8th August 2010. - Broadstairs Folk Week, Annual event at various locations in Broadstairs Town. - Broadstairs, Thanet, Kent, UK. - Motley Morris Women and Girls from Dartford performing on the jetty, Broadstairs Harbour, Viking Bay. - Motley Morris are a black faced "Border Style" morris side formed in 1981, when several members of local Cotswold Morris teams decided to perform dances from the Welsh Borders on an occassional basis. The resulting Team was called Dartford Morris after the town where they practiced. It was decided to keep the side all male. After a short while they developed their own identity with their distinctive coloured tatter jackets and using tunes and dances found in Kent. Further development led to renaming the side to "Motley Morris" as motley also means multi-coloured, this name seemed particulaty appropriate to their style. No Hankies and Bells! Their style is more primative, rhythmic and involves stick clashing. The black faces were thought originally to be some form of disguise. Nowadays it is used to make them seem more fearsome. Contrary to popular belief they do not use burnt cork - but standard stage makeup.
A few weeks travelling before my last year at Uni (hooray!) saw me at Murray Bridge for about 24 hours. Later that morning, in increasing heat (with no hat, and no water!), I wandered across to the other side of the river to wait for an expected Adelaide-bound freight. While waiting, I find the same 500 class loco doing a spot of ballasting. 3 February 1984.
Visited the excellent Horniman Museum to see their aquarium this week. The most photogenic subject was this Common Toad in the UK section.
Week 32/52 ~EP Project 52 ~ "Proverbs"
Wow......so here I am......Sunday morning and I have my photo for this week. What???? Tell me it isn't so!!! LOL
Yesterday afternoon(yes I know...this image was taken Saturday in the late afternoon...still counts I hope) a storm came by here and with it lots of lightning. Of course I ran and got my camera, set it up and waited. I love watching lightning, it just amazes me and to capture it is always a challenge. This was actually the ONLY one I was able to catch. The storm was stronger to the west of us which my view is covered by a bunch of trees and by the time that I moved to the front of the house they were few and far between. But, I got me ONE!! Yay!!!
Hope everyone has a wonderful week!!
Hugs to all
Irela
xoxoxo
Canon 50D: Lens Tamron 24-70; ISO320; f4; 28mm; 1/80
On tripod; shutter release cable; camera set on rapid fire.
Processed in LR; Lettering in PSE
Teleidoscope - "You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me." (C S Lewis)
Theme Of The Week - Film Noir
*~*~*
Victoria had been tasked to catalogue the latest shipment from Egypt.
Their lead archaeologist, Dr. Lindfors, had been killed under curious circumstances. This past week, mysterious and threatening notes had been arriving daily. They went on and on about a curse. Rubbish!
The strange thing was not the letters themselves, for they had received nonsense letters from nonsensical people for just about every new exhibit of ancient artifacts. The strange thing was that these letters were written in Dr. Lindfors' own handwriting.
"Are you sure he was dead?" the detective had asked her.
"Of course I am; I saw the body."
*~*~*
She had stayed late tonight, despite warnings from her colleagues. There was only a few more artifacts left to catalogue.
Suddenly, there was the sound of breaking glass and Victoria knew she was not alone…
For 15 Week Summer Postcard Challenge
Week 14 - Change
In spite of the enduring sunshine and lovely warmth, it's now autumn with all its attendant changes taking place in nature.
One of the most prominent indicators in the woods is the Arum Maculatum - otherwise known in its autumnal berry state as Cuckoo Pint, or Lords and Ladies and probably a host of other local names depending where you live.
Although the berries are very toxic, I'm told the root is rather delicious when cooked!
hi guys :)
i'm so sorry that i didn't upload for so long. i think i never had a 52-weeks pictures right after the other.. hm. i don't like that at all :/ but i really had no time to take pictures this week.
on monday i was too tired to take pictures because i didn't sleep a lot at the weekend.
yesterday i had to look after a little girl right after school and today i should actually learn english because tomorrow we'll write a test and i'm not prepared at all. so, big sorry that i'm in a hurry.
i don't like this a lot but it took me about 20 minutes to take it and building this white wall took me half of it. haha
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