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Geoff Chandler · Jan 29, 2008, 11:52 AM

I was out walking new years eve with my cousin and family - we came accross this place - she said she would just love to own it. This first shot is straight off the camera - just re-sized...

Geoff Chandler · Jan 29, 2008, 11:54 AM

Sorry to double post - it was the only way I could see to attach the other view..

This one I fiddled with to make a soft edge within a border

Both taken with a Nikon D80 & Sigma 17 - 70

Torgny · Jan 29, 2008, 12:02 PM

Geoff Chandler wrote:

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I was out walking new years eve with my cousin and family - we came accross this place - she said she would just love to own it. This first shot is straight off the camera - just re-sized...

Wonderful image. "So Brittish". Effective diagonal composition. A bull´s eye. All of the house, including the three chimneys, filling up the space.

The gable with the tree structure, even the door in that special green colour. Congratulations

Torgny

musket · Mar 29, 2008, 7:26 AM

Good shots, well spotted,I wonder if there was a reason

for one chimney pot being smaller than the other in each stack

and it could well do with a whitewash wall coating.........

........musket.

Geoff Chandler · Mar 29, 2008, 12:07 PM

Thanks Musket - I don't know the reason for the different chimney pot heights - would be interesting to find out...

hercules · Mar 30, 2008, 6:42 AM

Nice shots, what would that house cost:G

Geoff Chandler · Mar 30, 2008, 7:30 AM

Now ya got me!!

It's not in my part of the country for a start - but it's gotta be in the vacinity of £1m

As I say - maybe houses are much cheaper there...?

bahadir · Mar 30, 2008, 9:22 AM

Oh, as a brick fetishist:GI find the 1st picture, especially, quite appealingwitheye catchingcomplementary colours ofterracotta and greenery enhanced by fine details

You might, still, use the burn toolto eliminate the slight distracting effect ofthe white sky altogther...Btw, I am, too, quite pleasantly usingthat lens: Sigma 17 - 70 ; )

The Barbarian · Apr 5, 2008, 8:46 AM

A wonderful, whimsical-looking house. I too, would like to live in one like that.

I don't know if it would work for chimneys, but when prairie dogs build their burrows, they always make one entrance higher than the other. Wind then pulls a vacuum on the higher of the two, and thereby ventilates the burrow.

I need to do a little research.

Jan 29, 2008, 11:52 AM	#1
Geoff Chandler Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 85	I was out walking new years eve with my cousin and family - we came accross this place - she said she would just love to own it. This first shot is straight off the camera - just re-sized... Attached Images

Jan 29, 2008, 11:54 AM	#2
Geoff Chandler Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 85	Sorry to double post - it was the only way I could see to attach the other view.. This one I fiddled with to make a soft edge within a border Both taken with a Nikon D80 & Sigma 17 - 70 Attached Images

Mar 29, 2008, 7:26 AM	#4
musket Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 2,782	Good shots, well spotted,I wonder if there was a reason for one chimney pot being smaller than the other in each stack and it could well do with a whitewash wall coating.................musket.

Mar 30, 2008, 9:22 AM	#8
bahadir Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Izmir, Turkey Posts: 6,263	Oh, as a brick fetishist:GI find the 1st picture, especially, quite appealingwitheye catchingcomplementary colours ofterracotta and greenery enhanced by fine detailsYou might, still, use the burn toolto eliminate the slight distracting effect ofthe white sky altogther...Btw, I am, too, quite pleasantly usingthat lens: Sigma 17 - 70 ; )

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Mar 29, 2008, 12:07 PM	#5
Geoff Chandler Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 85	Thanks Musket - I don't know the reason for the different chimney pot heights - would be interesting to find out...

Mar 30, 2008, 6:42 AM	#6
hercules Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Sparta, Greece Posts: 2,649	Nice shots, what would that house cost:G

Mar 30, 2008, 7:30 AM	#7
Geoff Chandler Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 85	Now ya got me!! It's not in my part of the country for a start - but it's gotta be in the vacinity of £1m As I say - maybe houses are much cheaper there...?

Apr 5, 2008, 8:46 AM	#9
The Barbarian Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 2,394	A wonderful, whimsical-looking house. I too, would like to live in one like that. I don't know if it would work for chimneys, but when prairie dogs build their burrows, they always make one entrance higher than the other. Wind then pulls a vacuum on the higher of the two, and thereby ventilates the burrow. I need to do a little research.