Farewell to Tyntesfield

Back, safe and sound, with square format and we're finally at the end of the Tyntesfield series.

Tyntesfield Forever

Yet another Tyntesfield image. This time, I actually know what type of flower we're looking at - its an iris.

Fomat-itis

Yet another Tyntesfield image. I'm a bit anal about image formats - generally, I work with 3:2 or square and if I can't make the image fit one or the other, then I discard it. In, what is for me, a radical departure I've gone for 5:4 in this case. Enjoy.

PS: we are getting near the end of the Tyntesfield series now, honest. 

Tyntesfield Thunderbolt III

Another image from the Tyntesfield series. I made a conscious decision not to clone out the spider.

Tyntesfield Thunderbolt II

Another image from the bank holiday Tyntesfield session.

Tyntesfield Thunderbolt

As noted elsewhere, we spent the recent Bank Holiday Monday at Tyntesfield. As it happened, the day was perfect for outdoor photography, with very little wind and hazy sunshine, which gave good light levels with few real shadows. The only fly in the ointment was that I had my Tamron super-zoom on the front of my Alpha 550, but I just made the best of it and produced some half decent images, like this one.

This was made whilst wandering round the formal garden which, as far as flower photography is concerned, is a bit like shooting fish in a barrel. The result is a whole host of images which have a certain similarity to them - some photographers would call this a series. 

I'm undecided about what to do with them - one half of me wants to post each individually over the next few weeks whilst the other wants to composite them all into one and get it over with. Watch the space to see which half wins out.

Bottling It

We went to Tyntesfield on Bank Holiday Monday and followed the 'Pirate Trail' - how pirates and Tyntesfield are related is anyone's guess, but never mind - which took us to the stable block, where I made this image of a load of dusty brewing kit, all catalogued and labelled by the National Trust.

Rubber Stamp

I really don't know if this is a good image or not.

We have a rubber plant in our garden room and the other day I noticed the rather graceful shape of one of its leaves. I very rarely post composited images, but I felt that this one need something, and as I've noted, I've been getting bored with the rather 'straight' images that I've been making.

Purple Patch

There are loads of these purple flowers all over our garden and have been for a number of years. But they're the devils own job to photograph as they sit at the top of really long stems and sway about like crazy on even the calmest evening.

Nevertheless, there was a very calm evening a couple of weeks ago and I made this image, which sacrifices depth of field - and composition, some might say - for clarity.

I'm fairly pleased with it and I like the colours, but it somehow fails to move me. Fundamentally, I'm getting bored with making this sort of image, as I alluded in my previous post.