Spring time at Painshill

Photography Landscape posted on Apr 06, 2013
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I'm finding it extremely difficult with new camera to get file sizes down to a size I can post here without ruining photo Painshill near Cobham, Surrey, England, is one of the finest remaining examples of an 18th-century English landscape park. It was designed and created between 1738 and 1773 by the Hon. Charles Hamilton (MP). Charles Hamilton was born in 1704 in Dublin, the 9th son and 14th child of the 6th Earl of Abercorn. He was educated at Westminster School and Oxford, and went on two Grand Tours, one in 1725 and a further one in 1732. In 1738 Hamilton began to acquire land at Painshill and, over the years, built up a holding of more than 200 acres. His creation was among the earliest to reflect the changing fashion in garden design prompted by the Landscape Movement, which started in England in about 1730. It represented the move away from geometric formality in garden design to a new naturalistic formula. Many of the trees and shrubs planted by Hamilton were sent to him from Philadelphia by the naturalist John Bartram. The garden was open to respectable visitors, who were shown round by the head gardener for a tip, and was visited by many well-known figures including two visits by William Gilpin, pioneer of the Picturesque, Thomas Jefferson with John Adams, and Prince Franz of Anhalt-Dessau separately, on special tours of gardens, and the important landscape garden author Thomas Whately. Then as now there was a particular route round the park recommended, designed to bring the visitor upon the successive views with best effect. Views from Painshill were painted on plates for a Wedgewood service of porcelain commissioned by Catherine the Great of Russia. Want to see larger version with better colours click Here

Comments (11)


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MrsRatbag

7:58PM | Sat, 06 April 2013

This is lovely, David; I was wondering how this place would look in the spring. Can't wait to see it again with my new camera!

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Richardphotos

9:07PM | Sat, 06 April 2013

congrats on the new Canon. I have a 5D Mark III myself superb landscape

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abreojos

9:32PM | Sat, 06 April 2013

This is a great shot! Love the POV! I have the same problem. Many of my post are at 38% quality to meet the kb requirements here. I can't even get one small enough to post a thumb!

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rainbows

3:38AM | Sun, 07 April 2013

Beautiful capture, dear David. Hugs for all day. Spider. xx

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ontar1

7:44AM | Sun, 07 April 2013

Beautiful place David, love the pov, outstanding capture!!!!!!!!!!

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dakotabluemoon

8:06AM | Sun, 07 April 2013

Such a beautiful capture of spring.

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Sunflowers159

9:09AM | Sun, 07 April 2013

Great photo. Thanks for posting it. I just have a compact digital camera so all I do is post process my photos and reduce the size at that stage but what I have problems with - and this is increasing so I don't know whether it's because my camera is almost 10 years old or some other reason - is an increasing tendency to a nasty blue tinge and washed out colours. Do you have any tips - apart from what I do now in post-processing?

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X-PaX

11:12AM | Sun, 07 April 2013

Very nice capture. Well done.

bebert

11:27AM | Sun, 07 April 2013

très joli

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danapommet

11:22PM | Thu, 09 April 2015

A lovely photo and zoom with the daffodils in the foreground and the beautiful sky as a background. Well done!

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morganahope

2:58PM | Mon, 04 July 2016

wow.... wonderful place !!!


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Photograph Details
F Numberf/10.0
MakeCanon
ModelCanon EOS-1Ds Mark III
Shutter Speed100/5000
ISO Speed100
Focal Length20

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