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Today is the last full day of our holiday in Gloucestershire and we visited Woodchester Mansion, a Victorian Mansion which was mysteriously abandoned in 1873 before it was completed. A fascinating glimpse into a Victorian house which isn't a ruin, but isn't complete either.
It's rumoured to be haunted and there are regular 'ghost evenings' held, I believe. It's also popular with film directors for films like Dracula.
So having built it up, on to the photos...
Woodchester Mansion, Gloucestershire by Cariadus, on Flickr
I thought that I'd give it some 'other worldly' treatment and used an infrared filter on the E-M5. It was a bright sunny day and the sky was deep blue, apart from a few wisps of cloud so the infrared filter has turned the sky black and the clouds white. This is a slightly tweaked jpeg out of the camera - I generally find with infrared that it works better that way than to try to convert the (very red) RAW file.
Some interior shots:
When we'd finished walking round the ground floor and exploring the cellars I was expecting to look around the rest of the mansion, the first floor and above. But then realised that of course there isn't a first floor - the floors above ground level were never built. Couldn't help feeling short-changed somehow.
It was well worth visiting, though, it's a fascinating place.
Comments/criticism welcome as always.
Just looking at the black and white corridor shots I think they should have been darker to give them a more foreboding look, but it took me ages to upload them via a dodgy mobile connection from our caravan site in the middle of rural Gloucestershire and I really can't face having to go through editing them and uploading them again, so they'll have to stay that way for the moment. Perhaps when I get home I'll play with them again.
It's rumoured to be haunted and there are regular 'ghost evenings' held, I believe. It's also popular with film directors for films like Dracula.
So having built it up, on to the photos...
Woodchester Mansion, Gloucestershire by Cariadus, on Flickr
I thought that I'd give it some 'other worldly' treatment and used an infrared filter on the E-M5. It was a bright sunny day and the sky was deep blue, apart from a few wisps of cloud so the infrared filter has turned the sky black and the clouds white. This is a slightly tweaked jpeg out of the camera - I generally find with infrared that it works better that way than to try to convert the (very red) RAW file.
Some interior shots:
When we'd finished walking round the ground floor and exploring the cellars I was expecting to look around the rest of the mansion, the first floor and above. But then realised that of course there isn't a first floor - the floors above ground level were never built. Couldn't help feeling short-changed somehow.
It was well worth visiting, though, it's a fascinating place.
Comments/criticism welcome as always.
Just looking at the black and white corridor shots I think they should have been darker to give them a more foreboding look, but it took me ages to upload them via a dodgy mobile connection from our caravan site in the middle of rural Gloucestershire and I really can't face having to go through editing them and uploading them again, so they'll have to stay that way for the moment. Perhaps when I get home I'll play with them again.
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