More National Trust Pictures

...this time from Shugborough Historic Estate.

Took me about four weeks to get round to sorting them out. I'm getting lazy.

Complete sideshow here on this link.

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Produce being sold and a metal workshop further along.

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A scaredog instead of a scarecrow.

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Goose gunning for me. Well, it wasn't really but still...

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Shorn sheep wool, grandaddy clock and a cantilever staircase.

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Servant's Room. Barely enough room to swing a cat in here.

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I have enough trouble trimming hedges with a powered trimmer, never mind this contraption that took two people to operate.

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A curious goat.

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This silly thing was trying to eat a little frog that looked way to big for its mouth.

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Gentlemen and ladies pursued pleasures in here in this building known as "The Tower of the Winds".

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Many meals worth of game birds.

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Mansion from the front.

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There was a little island and a monument beyond this bridge that I wanted to photograph - but it was locked off. I was tempted to jump the locked gate...

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A stranger's dog fetches a stick. Unfortunately, I missed a shot where another stranger's dog attempted to get this stick before this dog did.

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A distant blue bridge leading to an arboretum. Unfortunately, locked off was that arboretum.

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The ubiquitous mirror shot...
 
hmm, if we subscribe to the idea that most subjects of pictures (nay, images overall) are generally in the center of the image, then your last seems a bit... egotistical.

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nice shots. we've a pack of similar geese around here.. nearly ran a few over the other month. :D
 
hmm, if we subscribe to the idea that most subjects of pictures (nay, images overall) are generally in the center of the image, then your last seems a bit... egotistical.

:24:

nice shots. we've a pack of similar geese around here.. nearly ran a few over the other month. :D

The ones of me I deliberately took that way to ensure I wasn't fully visible :p Thanks for the kind comments. I was a bit wary of getting too close to the geese. There were a lot of them... ;)

oooooohhhhhh very nice

i like the bridge and your skys

nice composition on the mirror shot

what kind of camera do you have?

Thank you JanieDough. :) The skies I had to bring out as it was such a cloudy day. I used lightroom and a graduated filter to reduce the exposure on a few of the sky shots.

The camera I use is: Sony Alpha DSLR-A700 Review: 1. Introduction: Digital Photography Review

I have a few different lenses, 50mm macro/portrait, 70-300mm zoom, 10-20mm wideangle and a 28-80mm for everyday (this one is the worst and I need to replace it at some point).

Lovely Siph, thanks for showing us:thumbup

You're welcome :)

You have some very nice shots there Siph. Thanks for the trip.

Thanks Guy!

Cool photos, lmao at the chicken with the frog!:24:

Thank you Peter. At first, as you do - I thought the chicken was pecking at a piece of bread or something a visitor had left behind. Turned out it had it's eyes on something a tad more ambitious. I never did stop to see if it got anywhere - was with mates so didn't spend ages in any one place.
 
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