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Elvaston Castle is a stately home in Elvaston, Derbyshire, England. The Gothic Revival castle and surrounding parkland is run and owned by Derbyshire County Council as a country park known as Elvaston Castle Country Park. The country park has 200 acres (0.81 km2) of woodlands, parkland and formal gardens.
The centrepiece of the estate is the Grade II* Listed Elvaston Castle. The castle has been neglected and is in need of restoration. Due to its condition, the building is not open to the public, and since 2008 has been listed on the Buildings at Risk Register.
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Two Starlings interacting in flight. We have an exhibition at my camera club shortly and I needed a mono print, as starlings are lacking in colour, I thought this would suit.
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I had thought to do some shots for a website, in Formal, Casual and Lingerie. However between me asking the parameters and submitting, the rules changed so it was a waste of my time. So lets post them here!
This is the Formal clothing one.
So called because of the formal layout of the garden at Loseley Hall and the modern sculptures in the background which seem to be figures meeting.
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Drive slow
Where we goin', ain't no time zone
'Cause my home
Is wherever you and I go (let's go)
Got all this life, but I'm not livin' here without you
Got all this time, don't wanna spend it all without you
And I know
We gotta fall in with our eyes closed
I just need you tonight
'Cause I don't wanna waste the rest of my life
All I need is you plus me, every day of the week
Minus the distance
I just need you tonight
'Cause whenever you stay, I feel so alive
All I need is you plus me, every day of the week
Minus the distance...
Black Phoebe. A cute little flycatcher that always looks so formal to me in their black jacket and crisp white shirt
It has been a very long time since I have dressed up for anything. My life has become far more casual and my daily wardrobe consists of comfortable clothes - fitness wear, t-shirts, jeans, etc. Do you like the trend toward casual wear or do you miss dressing up?
Taken at Sunny's Studio
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Backdrop/Pose: Black and White Sweet
I've always thought these black phoebes look rather formal in their black dinner wear with crisp white shirt. Turns out, they catch flies for a living.
A Formal Farewell to Summer... The weekend of the Balloon Festival was pretty much the only weekend this summer when I got to do things that felt like life was "normal" again... so now, I am unofficially declaring summer OVER... at least for me! And that's just fine... I like Fall better anyway! (And yes... this is my take on "poetic license"... I added the sunset colors) Happy Fall y'all!!
American Coot enjoying his alone time. They very much tend to gather in close packs in the middle of the lake on cold winter days seemingly to stay warm. Not unnoticed by a pair of eagles who constantly harass the group swooping in for a quick meal. The good news, I've yet to see them actually score a win.
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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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The Fort Gary Hotel Concert Hall and Crystal Ballroom are on the 7th double height floor.
The Fort Garry was built 1911-13 for the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway.
The hotel was designated a National Historic Site of Canada 15 January 1981 and was formally recognized as a Canadian Historic Place 30 March, 1990.
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Wood Duck drake at the Wissahickon Creek, PA in Spring last year
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