Up and out a little later than scheduled (thanks to a little too much Claret), but made it to our first stop, Dunham Massey. First problem…the house wasn’t actually open! So a quick walk around the gardens and then we headed on South to the Shugborough Estate, where we found a very nice house and BUGS! Here are the second set of pictures from our trip:
After a brief break for a little writing, I picked up my camera again and travelled up to Manchester with my Dad. Day 1 was an early start, but well worth it, visiting another stunning house built ad designed by a favourite architect of mine, Robert Adam. It’s a beautiful place and even the Old Man was suitably impressed with its grandeur!
Following a picturesque drive through the Peak District (and passed the Devil’s A**e), we arrived at the second destination of the day: Little Moreton Hall. A peculiar litle Tudor house, all built on timber frames and now warped quite incredibly! All in all, a very succesful day of driving and walking, with some nice pictures too!
a day of wandering some of the local market town, but nothing particularly grabbed me apart from the lovel old building in the centre of Old Amersham, so here it is!
Just the one house, as it was actually my 1st wedding anniversary on Monday, so it was off to Ham House and Gardens first thing, which was a very nice house. After that, we had high tea at our wedding venue (Grim’s Dyke) by way of celebration.
This time accompanied by the lovely Mrs. B, we ventured south and saw two beautiful National Trust properties. Apart from a brief traffic jam based shouting match (damn you M25!), it was a wonderful day and I have the most patient wife a budding photo person could ask for (FYI – she’s literally reading this over my shoulder right now…)
An incredible day spent celebrating the marriage of Dean & Meg. Got to meet friends and family, and we all partied hard until the early hours too! Here are some of the pictures I took around the day (trying not to get in the way of the ‘real’ photographers!).
While wndering the lovely Walled Garden, I was stuck by the lovely bees flitting around and quite happily moving around with people waling through, so I decided to try to get a couple on camera. Unfortunately, the weather (or wind, to be precise) was slightly against me, but here are some of the images I was able to get.
After a couple of days at home I decided to venture out to another National Trust site and this time it was the Wimpole Estate, in Cambridgeshire. It was an interesting place, but the gardens were whhere I became a little obsessed with flowers and bug hunting. More of that to follow though, below are some of the pictures from around and inside the house.
Spent an evening at Regents Open Air Theatre yesterday, seeing the musical ‘Ragtime’. It was an interesting production and prior to the show I took a walk around the park with Mrs. B, as well as her Sister (Keri) & boyfriend (Giancarlo). It was a lovely walk and the show was certainly interesting, if not the all-singing, all-dancing, and fun-loving 1920s musical we were quite expecting (to be honest, it was a little depressing actually).
Anyway, here a handful of pics from the walk.
On to the main visit for yesterday, the stunning Waddesdon Manor! It really is beautiful and a fascinating collection of art and other pieces in the house (no photography allowed sadly).
Anyway, I wandered around and around the house once with the 18-70mm and then with the 70-300mm. As well as the house being stunning, I really enjoyed some of the sculptures and modern art dotted around the grounds. Anyway…enjoy:
