Mt. Saint Bernard Abbey

As mentioned before in my previous two posts - Grace Dieu Abbey and Grace Dieu Abbey Photoshoot! -  me and my buddy Rex went on a cycle ride to go and discover an abandoned abbey. We then took a different way home and stumbled across this one, a real working monastery! It is an extremely impressive building, so we chained up the bikes and went for a wander round the gardens, which were immaculately kept and took some great snaps.

1. The front path leading to the front door

2. The building

3. A stone in the garden wall

4 - 8. Flowers in the garden

Photography Cycle Ride

The other day I decided to go out for a bike ride with my camera. Now, having played rugby for 7 years before I came to university, then stopping and replacing it with fast food, beer and playing xbox, I was a little worried about how far I could actually cycle! Nervously I set off, wondering if I could make it to the place I had in mind, with my camera equipment in my backpack!

Surprisingly enough, I climbed the hill all the way to the place where I wanted to get to, and didn't feel too bad! So I carried on and on until I started to feel a little tired then took a country road to go and see what I could discover.

Luckily enough for me, I picked a great road to turn down, because all of these photos were taken within 50 metres of me actually turning onto the road! I also really enjoyed the cycle ride, not including some of the crazy drivers out there who give you the tiniest bit of space, and I think I am going to do more of them!

Here are the photos from the day:

1. A yellow flower

2. A garden fence

3. A cool house with a windmill attached to it!

4. A bush in the garden of the house

5. A field

6.  A spiky bush

There is another flower picture but it is going to be posted on Friday, so keep an eye out for it!

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Tatton Park

Tatton Park is a little place just outside of Manchester which has a deer park, a large mansion house and some lovely gardens. One day Hana and I decided we would make the trip over there whilst we still had the car, as we were getting rid of it at the end of January. Booo!

Anyway, we drove on over, and after discovering that the house was closed were a little disappointed but went for a wander anyway. The gardens themselves are really well kept and there is a little Japanese section to it which was really well done. Here are some of the photos taken from the day, with close up shots coming in my next post, so keep an eye out for them!

1. Deer in the distance

2. Trellis

3. The gardens

4. Garden wall

5. A tree

6. A pond

7. The Japanese hut

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Lotherton Landscapes

Lotherton is back! Post number three, with number one and two here:

Her Red Coat 

Lotherton Hall Mash Up

Today's instalment is the landscapes of Lotherton Hall. As previously mention, Lotherton Hall is a really old house with surrounding gardens and a bird sanctuary. This post covers the views of the garden and the beautiful landscapes that you see from the house. The gardens are really pretty, and to be honest I much prefer shooting close up and macro shots, but these views caught my eye so I had to give it a go! here are the results:

1. View from the back of the house.

2. The entrance to the house.

3. The view from the front door.

4. A lovely little wendy house in the grounds.

5. The entrance to the  'Secret Garden'.

Which do you prefer to shoot, close ups or landscapes? Or both!

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Macro Mashup 2

Another rushed post from me as the uni work is piling up and I'm struggling to get out to take photos!

So today's post shall be a cheeky macro mashup of things I have taken which havent made it onto the blog yet! See my first Macro Mashup post for more shots!
On a quick edit point after looking through these I realised how 3 of them aren't even remotely macro! You can tell my brain was frazzled! My bad!
Today's installment consists of:

1.The birdhouse in the back garden.
2. My old hamster cage. Now there is no hamster actually in the picture, however I just really like the colours in this.
3. Pirhanas!! And yes, they do actually have gold fleck on them!
4. A Flower at Speke Hall.

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Summer Holiday : Part III

The final post about my summer holiday. Make sure you read Part I and Part II first!

Day 5

Time to leave! We had until around 4 to chill by the pool, and luckily for us it was an absolute scorcher of a day! So we spent all day sunbathing and trying to get that all important tan before we left. When 4 a rrived we had a two hour coach journey with some ridiculously drunk OAPs, and then we got our flight!
Once we landed we got our bags back and off we went to go pick up the car. At around midnight we set off back home hobbling all the way home on our spare tyre. Urgh. Finally, absolutely exhausted, we got back home and straight into bed and to sleep!

Overall it probably wasn't the best holiday, and by that I mean that it wasn't great at all, but it was still our first holiday together and it just means the next one can only be better, fingers crossed!


Here are some of the pictures I didn't put on the other two posts but I quite liked.

More Favourite Pictures

This is a pool that was in the Botanical Gardens and I loved the reflection in it!

 This is the sea from on top of a cliff. It was so clear!

Even though this is out of focus I actually really like that about it and you can just make out the smiles still on our faces.

This is another pool that was in the botanical gardens.

 This was a little house that was covered in ivy. The colours were really great and it was really quite quaint.

And that my friends is the summary of my summer holiday! Now I just have to wait until the next one!

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Summer Holiday : Part II

Here is the continuation of my summer holiday posts, day 3 and 4! Read Part I first!
 

Day 3

Rain. Rain. Rain. It sucked. There were even thunderstorms! Dark cloud allllll day so we had no sunbathing, no swimming, no beach time or anything. We did however play a billion games of 'Go Fish', our holiday favourite! We are now experts at that!

Day 4

Finally a nice day. So off to the Botanical Gardens we go! With both of us loving photography it really was an ideal place for us to go, and we got to shoot things we never would get to do back home. The colours and the shapes of the plants and flowers were incredible! We spent a couple of hours there just wandering round, taking photos of everything. Here are some of my favourite photos from the day...

Stay tuned for day 5!

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