Houghton Lodge (where?)

[snaarman]

Wet grey miserable Bank Holiday. We don't want to end up stuck in a traffic jam going the the same place as everyone else. No...

So we revisited Houghton Lodge (Hampshire, near excellent Stockbridge). It was almost empty: Probably about 8 families there. The tea shop was open. We got a bit wet, but what a nice quiet experience.

Here's the Pete snaps:

In the summer house by the river Test









Arty stuff at the end of the tea room conservatory. Lovely.




Pete

[OM USer]

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I know Stockbridge but never hear of Houghton Lodge. Thnak you for the heads up Pete and some nice piccies so I know what's there.

[snaarman]

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I don't often take pictures of swans these days, but in this case I make an artistic exception...




Down by the Test at Houghton Lodge in the Alpaca field.

[raymondo]

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Hi, I also have never heard of Houghton Lodge but seems like a nice place to visit. I love no2, the woodshed with all the moss on the roof, (as they say in my neck of the woods) a beltin pic, thanks

[Zuiko]

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I particularly like No 4, you have an uncanny knack of doing this type of photograph so well.

[Phill D]

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I like #4 too. I would never have thought of cropping it like that, I'd have tried to include all of the subjects and just produced an ordinary snap. Nice tip Pete.

[Beagletorque]

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My vote goes to the three swans in #1!

[snaarman]

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I particularly like No 4, you have an uncanny knack of doing this type of photograph so well.

Many thanks folks. You made an old bloke very happy...

Yes: The clock and bush picture just jumped out at me as I looked down the old long greenhouse (now part of the tea shop). On the end wall was the clock, a tree and a door.

But how to frame and take the picture? There was the unwelcome door that forced the composition and meant I had to push the tree half out of frame in order to exclude the door* That is not my usual approach to composition but in this case I think it turned out surprisingly well.

Pete

*I have been known to rearrange the world slightly to assist a composition if no-one is looking, but I wasn't going to get away with that on this occasion.

[Wee man]

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Another vote for No. 2