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Old Wardour’s colourful history has left it a memorable combination of medieval castle, Elizabethan mansion, Civil War battleground and 18th-century landscape garden. The remarkable hexagonal castle was built in the 1390s for John, Lord Lovell, a wealthy courtier and soldier. In the 1570s an Elizabethan administrator, Sir Matthew Arundell, added up-to-date Renaissance features. Then, in a Civil War siege of 1644, Henry, Lord Arundell, blew up one side of his own castle, while recapturing it from the Parliamentary army.
In the 1760s and 1770s the 8th Lord Arundell built a country house, New Wardour Castle, nearby, and turned Old Wardour into a picturesque park of ruins, lake and woodland.
Langen, Bregenzerwald
Dec. 2024
Olympus XA4 macro, Zuiko 3,5/28 mm
Eastman Double-X 5222, Kodak D-76 (1+1)
SE 5 Lithprint onto Fomatone 532 II
Old Trees. © Copyright 2022 G Dan Mitchell.
A group of very old and weathered trees, Yosemite National Park.
For as long as I’ve gone to the Sierra I have marveled at trees eking out an existence on little more than whatever collects in narrow cracks in granite. These slow-growing trees are often seem stunted and twisted, and sometimes they seem more dead than alive. But portions of the trees carry on, slowly putting out new growth. The texture and coloration of the wood of these trees seems almost to have more in common with the granite than with other trees.
We were surprised by rain on our recent visit to the Yosemite high country. The clouds softened the light, revealing details that might otherwise be lost in harsh shadows. This vignette includes much of what I see in such trees. There is a central section with strong growth, but to the right is one of those gray trunks that is almost granitic, to the point that lichen grows on it.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, “California’s Fall Color: A Photographer’s Guide to Autumn in the Sierra” is available from Heyday Books, Amazon, and directly from G Dan Mitchell.
So today's photo is gonna be something different from my other photos. In fact, I shot this pic accidentally. But what do you think? :) ©[http://www.flickr.com/photos/99933540@N05/]
Has long been a photographer favorite. The seedlings and spruce trees are increasingly ruining the shot.
Here is what it looked like in 2018:
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A step back in time to a visit to Old Wardour Castle --
Built by John, Lord Lovel, in the late 14th century, Old Wardour is composed of a five-sided tower around a central courtyard. A large hall unusually provided with large windows on the outer wall, a sign that Wardour was meant as much for prestige as for defence.
Old Wardour Castle is located at the heart of a maze of winding, narrow lanes, in a rural location yet only a few miles from the town of Shaftesbury. Lovel's creation was, in its day, one of the grandest, most impressive residences in England. The castle was later purchased by the Arundell family who remodelled the medieval castle as an Elizabethan manor.
Wardour suffered greatly during the Civil War, and the Arundells finally built New Wardour Castle to replace it in 1776. The old castle became the centrepiece of a pleasure ground, a park replete with fanciful grottoes, a stone circle, and a tea house in classical style, all built to entertain the Arundells and their guests. Today, Old Wardour is an unusual and attractive combination of medieval fortress, Elizabethan manor, and Georgian pleasure ground.
At the heart of the grounds is the castle keep, standing to four storeys in places. The keep is arranged around a central courtyard with a well. Off this courtyard several spiral stairs rise to the upper floors. One of these, the stair to the Great Hall, was remodelled by Robert Smythson for Sir Matthew Arundell as a Roman triumphal arch, with beautifully ornamented columns.
The upper floors have many of the most important rooms, including the Great Hall, Lobby, and Great Chamber. There is a Buttery, where food was stored, a Pantry, and Kitchen area with large fireplaces. You can climb to the top of the tower, with wonderful views across the lake below.
At the foot of the castle lawn is the classical tea house, while further up the slope is a Grotto and small stone circle.
Testing my new 7Artisans 75mm f/1.25.
After have used only 21-50mm (lately 40mm) for many years I thought it'd be interesting and educational to try something slightly longer, so when I stumbled upon this for an incredible low price I couldn't resist.
Very pleased with it so far. It has a gentle rendering that should fit my style well.
Ust in Trondheim, Norway.
Old Town across the lake; it's decidedly one of the prettiest sceneries in my hometown. I tend to shoot here at least once every year, and I did get a series of sunset shots just two months earlier.
Explore August 4, 2021
Poland, Łódź, Art Nouveau power plant of Karol Scheibler's factory, built in 1910 according to the design of the Latvian engineer Alfred Frisch. The uniqueness of the building is not only the fact that it is a very rare example of Art Nouveau industrial architecture, but also a construction technique that was innovative at the time. The structure of the building is made of reinforced concrete.
This image is MJ and I made it from a prompt dedicated to a good friend "Old Earth" that I do love so much.
Westbound NS 29G blasts toward the summit at Blue Ridge, ducking under this old steam-era overpass on the way.
iPhone 12 Pro. 8360
The Old Congregational Church is an historic church building on Greenville Road (Rhode Island Route 116) in the Smithville-North Scituate village of Scituate, Rhode Island. The wood-frame shingled church was designed by Clark Sayles (a protege of noted church-builder Elias Carter) and complete in 1831. The church was regularly used in the 19th century, but attendance declined in the later years, and it was only occasional used until 1940, when it was given to the town. In 1974, the building was listed on National Register of Historic Places.
The Scituate Art Festival has been held on the church grounds every autumn since 1967. The art festival was founded to raise funds to restore the church interior.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Congregational_Church_(North_Scituate,_Rhode_Island)