Holiday snaps
Sep. 12th, 2010 11:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livI had this idea that switching to a digital camera would mean speedier turnaround for getting my shots processed. It hasn't really worked, it still takes me months to get round to uploading photos from my camera and tweaking them and putting them online. Anyway, here's a few snaps showing "what I did on my holidays", as they say:
I only ended up taking a couple of photos in the local park at Trentham; I am rather pleased with how the DNA sculpture one came out, though!
We walked around Wrexham as far as Offa's Dyke. It was incredibly beautiful, but hard to photograph because landscapes like that just come out as unbroken green. There are quite a few shots of machinery from the museum of the mining industry that we visited, though.
When the parents were here, we visited Chatsworth House, the seat of the dukes of Devonshire in Derbyshire, which is famous partly because it was used as the setting for Mr Darcy's Pemberley in the recent-ish film of Pride and Prejudice. Anyway it's quite ridiculously photogenic, and I had fun trying to come up with some shots that aren't too postcardy.
It's very well worth visiting, actually; it really is in a different class from most stately homes. They've put a lot of effort into making it interesting to visitors, and there's one of the most phenomenal private art collections I've seen. The really interesting thing is that they're still buying contemporary art, it's not all fossilized in the 18th century.
I only ended up taking a couple of photos in the local park at Trentham; I am rather pleased with how the DNA sculpture one came out, though!
We walked around Wrexham as far as Offa's Dyke. It was incredibly beautiful, but hard to photograph because landscapes like that just come out as unbroken green. There are quite a few shots of machinery from the museum of the mining industry that we visited, though.
When the parents were here, we visited Chatsworth House, the seat of the dukes of Devonshire in Derbyshire, which is famous partly because it was used as the setting for Mr Darcy's Pemberley in the recent-ish film of Pride and Prejudice. Anyway it's quite ridiculously photogenic, and I had fun trying to come up with some shots that aren't too postcardy.
It's very well worth visiting, actually; it really is in a different class from most stately homes. They've put a lot of effort into making it interesting to visitors, and there's one of the most phenomenal private art collections I've seen. The really interesting thing is that they're still buying contemporary art, it's not all fossilized in the 18th century.
