I only like going on long walks if I can take hundreds of pictures along the way. And when I say hundreds, I actually mean more like a thousand! I just can’t take any chances; what if I miss THE shot. Rather be safe than sorry right? I am definitely going to go on a ‘get to know your SLR’ course so that the storage capacity on this computer is spared ‘thousands’ of fuzzy, obscure, ‘arty’ images. By the way, if anyone is looking for an image of pretty much anything that lives or grows in The New Forest (mushrooms, flowers, ponies, acorns, insects etc), please get in touch- I can help!!
The theme for this week’s OCD Photographers Club (OCDPC) is the breathtaking Stourhead Garden in Warminster, Wiltshire. An hour’s drive from Salisbury, depending on the traffic, and you arrive in ‘on of the World’s finest 18th-century landscape gardens’.
In 1946 Sir Henry Hugh Arthur Hoare gave Stourhead to the National Trust, and what a good job he did. The closest us mere commoners will ever come to the lavish lifestyle of Lords and Ladies is by watching Downton Abbey and visiting National Trust treasures such as Stourhead.Walking around the garden, the man made lake reflects the golden colours of the autumn leaves and the follies provide yet another reason to explore.
The gardens are open all year round, and dogs are permitted on leads from November to February. For all the detail visit the National Trust site:
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| The Palladian Bridge can be seen in the 2005 movie Pride & Prejudice |
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