For those not able to visit Westonbirt (BIG)

[CHJ]

 

[Travis]

Out standing---Super---As you can tell, I like pictures with color

Thank you very much

Travis

 

[BMac]

Absolutely beautiful!

I would love to build a bungalow in the middle of that.

Brendan

 

[paulm]

Beautiful Chas, thanks for taking the time to post them up.

Cheers, Paul

 

[cambournepete]

Thanks for posting those Chas - what camera do you use?

 

[Paul Chapman]

Lovely pictures, Chas 8)

Cheers :wink:

Paul

 

[CHJ]

Thanks for posting those Chas - what camera do you use?

Just a budget Nikon P80 Pete in snap happy mode for these.

The pictures uploaded are at a much reduced size for bandwidth reasons but do carry the Exif data if you have means of extracting it.

Typical Exif data:

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[dedee]

So apart from trees what else does Westonbirt have? :wink:

Lovely photos. Thanks for sharing

I have spent many hours cutting down oversised & inappropriately planted trees from our garden. It is nice to see large trees growing in the right place.


Andy

 

[head clansman]

hi

autumn with it's glorious colors , nice .hc

 

[CHJ]

So apart from trees what else does Westonbirt have? :wink: ..
Andy

Peace and tranquility for the most part, manic crowds when special events are on, but with excess of 600 acres there is always a quiet spot or two.

Westonbirt National Arboreta and Friends of Westonbirt

 

[laird]

Thanks for sharing that.
We had trees with green leaves a week ago. Heavy rain and a couple of gales - trees with no leaves. So endeth autumn (whatever that is).

 

[newt]

Super when did you take them

 

[CHJ]

Super when did you take them

Last Sunday Pete. whilst out for a browse with Paul.J and his family.

Between;
DateTime : 2009:10:25 10:37:00
DateTime : 2009:10:25 13:32:34
for those particular shots.

 

[Paul.J]

Thank you for a very enjoyable weekend Chas and Di.
Better put a couple of the piccys up out of the nearly 300 me and Swmbo took,and this was just a tiny fraction of the ground we covered :shock:
Hope you like em

 

[Doug B]

Lovely photos boys.

How much of that turnable timber did you manage to sneak home :lol: :lol:

 

[bugbear]

Thank you for a very enjoyable weekend Chas and Di.
Better put a couple of the piccys up out of the nearly 300 me and Swmbo took

Speaking as a fellow digital "shoot everything" merchant, I have a question.

Do you *keep* everything, or do you review and purge ruthlessly?

BugBear

 

[CHJ]

I carry out a gentle purges as I go, but I admit to storing a fairly high percentage of later rejected shots (for display) on the basis that DVD storage is cheap.

1. On initial viewing; delete the accidental button presses and those clever shots against the sun etc. that didn't work.

The rest get transferred to HD for DVD BU as bulk transfer from card.

2. On batch transfer/sorting; cull the duplicates, exposure brackets & obvious poor composition.

The results of that, including any manipulated images are again committed to DVD.

Having in a past life gone through a phase of obsessive photographic interpretation and sole searching looking for the perfect composition etc. alongside a collection of family snaps. I find several decades on it's the casual family snaps or the obscure often poor composition images that have been transferred warts and all to digital that now get pulled out of the archives for reference, memories being more important than perfection of image.

 

[newt]

Do you still think its worth a visit this week?

 

[CHJ]

Do you still think its worth a visit this week?

Certainly, the strong winds have abated and there were still a good many specimens still to reach their full turn colours.

If you are at liberty to pick your day obviously try for sunshine but don't get too put off by showers, some of the most dramatic effects appear between cloud movements.
The bulk of the colour shots were taken as we progressed into Silk Wood from the Garden Centre gate end and back through the acer plantations.

The views of the silk wood from the banks just below the visitor centre provided some dramatic native colour blends.


Even in the winter months we find some very dramatic vistas as the conifers vie with the deciduous in colour casts/changes, we are fortunate to live within 15-20 min drive and although surrounded by woodland ourselves visit westonbirt at least once a month.

 

[newt]

Chas may try tomorrow