Waddesdon Manor Lights

Traveling back from Swindon just after the Christmas stay with Nicki and her family. We all decided to visit Waddesdon Manor. Sue and I initially were not going to stay for the evening display of festive lights but we changed our minds. I decided just to take my Olympus OMD EM1 for the visit, if I had realised that we were staying on for the lights I would have used the Canon 5D mike which has a much better high ISO performance. Having said that I have some very pleasing images, all hand held and some at at 6400 ISO.

Colourscape at Waddesdon Manor

Back on the Easter weekend Sue and I travelled to Waddesdon Manor, near Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire. It is a National Trust house and a place we have visited a few times. We met up with our daughter Nicki and her family. The main attraction was the fact that they had a Colourscape event.

I was going to describe what Colourscape is but this quote is taken from Wikipedia ....

Colourscapes are large air-supported colour sculptures where colour is used to make space active, to make an ambiguous space beyond measurement. Visitors to Colourscapes, wearing coloured cloaks, choose the journey they make through the interconnected chambers, becoming part of the sculpture, as the colour they wear changes as they move, dynamically altering the space that others see. Inside Colourscape, people are entirely surrounded by colour, which is transmitted from the inner surfaces as daylight filters through the plastic membrane from which Colourscape is made. This immersion in colour is an intense experience giving rise to interesting perceptual phenomena and emotional richness

You can find the full article here ....     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colourscape

The first Colourscape was opened in 1971. The structure at Wadesdon Manor at Easter was not a large one but it did give us a great experience. The queue to get in was a bit on the long side which was due to the popularity of it and Waddesdon Manor.

The colour certainly a challenge for camera exposure and colour balance.

In the centre of the tubes was a large white dome where musicians were playing 'atmospheric / mode' music.

I found creating monochrome versions of these highly coloured images very pleasing - I hope you do too.

Eloise

Eloise - Processed in NIK Colour EFex

Eloise

Eloise

Sue

Sue with Nicki and family in the background

Sue with Nicki and family in the background

Red

Blue

Eloise, Nicki and Imogen

The Musicians 

Ocean Drum

Sue with Ocean Drum

Waddesdon Manor

On Bank Holiday Sunday we met up with Middle Sized Daughter (Nicki) and her family (Nick and Eloise) half way between here  (Haddenham) and Swindon. A fantastic National Trust House called Waddesdon Manor. We did not get chance to go into the house but the gardens were great. A good day was had by all

Magnificent house and grounds in the style of a 19th-century French château. Waddesdon Manor was built by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild in 1874

 

 

 

 

 

 

Happy Dad and Daughter

 

 

 

The house is listed in the NT book as their 'Jewel In the Crown'

 

 

Obviously not a Canon user .....