the tudor mill, a photo from Cheshire, England

Photographer's Note

Dunham Massey a Country estate including mansion with important collections and ‘below stairs’ areas, impressive garden and deer park. An early Georgian house built around a Tudor core, Dunham Massey was extensively reworked in the early years of the 20th century. The result is one of Britain’s most sumptuous Edwardian interiors, housing exceptional collections of 18th-century walnut furniture, paintings and Huguenot silver, as well as extensive servants’ quarters. Here is one of the North West’s great plantsman’s gardens with richly planted borders and majestic trees, as well as an orangery, Victorian bark-house and well-house. The ancient deer park contains a series of beautiful avenues and ponds and a Tudor mill, originally used for grinding corn but refitted as a sawmill c.1860 and now restored to working order.

dareco, snunney, Buin, rushfan2112, tyro, axiotea, LamCam heeft deze opmerking als nuttig gemarkeerd

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pcp (3396) 2007-12-21 7:35

HI Geof,

Beautiful and perfect light and good image balance in your picture with nice colors.

TFS

Senthil

dareco (17136) 2007-12-21 7:37

This is very beautiful!! I love these old houses so much! Once again the lighting and colors are excellent. TFS

snunney (130967) 2007-12-21 8:10

Hello Geof,
A nice capture of this beautiful old building. The golden light brings out the detail in the brickwork perfectly. Very good perspective and clarity.

Buin (42580) 2007-12-21 9:07

Hallo Geof!
This is a really lovely sight! One can feel the breath of history here. I like the atmosphere of this place very much. These windows with the stained glass (?) are beautiful - and last but not least I like the light here very much. A truly worth seeing building!
A merry Christmas and some calm and a bit contemplative days to you and your family!
Greetings from cold but very sunny Germany!
Frank

ysabaner (1069) 2007-12-21 11:39

Hello Geof,
Very nice historical building, wonderful composition, well done.
Yahya

rushfan2112 (2965) 2007-12-21 14:18

Hi Geof. Beautiful colours - as ever. Almost looks like the Cotswolds - thoughI'm all-too familiar with its whereabouts! The low, warm, winter lighting is perfect for the colour of the bricks. Excellent work. Paul.

tyro (30513) 2007-12-22 13:42

Hello, Geof.

A great picture and a great note to accompany it.

Wonderful colours and sharpness too.

But I just wonder if it is slightly skew - perhaps a counter-clockwise rotation of a couple of degrees would correct that. I notice that when I take landscape pictures, I always seem to hold the camera squint and need a couple of degrees rotation clockwise to correct it. I thought it was just part of the ageing process, but when I look back at pictures I took 30 years ago, the same was true then! Funny, you would imagine that one would be more likely to get it wrong with portrait-style pictures, but I don't seem to be so afflicted with those.

Still a lovely picture all the same!

Best Wishes,

John.

axiotea (21651) 2007-12-23 8:30

Hello Geof
The sunlight is very pleasant and illuminates nicely the scene! I like the way you've presented this house with the bricks creating nice patterns and the trees adding graphism.
All the best
Marilyn

LamCam (3717) 2007-12-31 7:36

Hello Geof
Lovely gentle sunlight to show off the mellow brickwork of this beautiful building. Dunham Massey sounds just the job! - probably more interesting to me than some of the rather impersonal massive 'Stately Homes' which, to be honest, can leave me rather cold. I would certainly appreciate the gardens too.
Your shot shows the textures off very well and you have included just enough blue sky and trees to put the building in context.
Have a Happy, Healthy, and Creative New Year!
All the best Maggie