Dorset
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Close-up of a bluebell. Technical Data / Date : 21-Apr-2007 13:36 / Camera : Nikon D70s / Lens : Nikon 60mm F/2.8 Macro / Focal Length : 60mm / Shutter Speed : 1/120 / Aperture : f/8 / ISO : 200 This image was featured in the Flowers in Macro group on 19th September 2008.
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Images taken in Edinburgh (Scotland) and Christchurch (Dorset). / BEST VIEWED LARGE / / / Browse Dorit’s gallery by print format: / ~ Landscape Format / ~ Square Format / ~ Portrait Format / ~ Panorama Format / Image Collections: Featured work Layered with Texture Monochrome Camera Paintings Floral Triptychs This & That
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Looking down Millhams Street in Christchurch, England on a quiet Sunday afternoon. / / / Browse Dorit’s gallery by print format: / ~ Landscape Format / ~ Square Format / ~ Portrait Format / ~ Panorama Format / Image Collections: Featured work Layered with Texture Monochrome Camera Paintings Floral Triptychs This & That
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These Punch and Judy theatres seem ever popular and say as much about the traditional British seaside as fish and chips or bucket and spades! Selective colouring.
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A public right of way crosses a corn field in Dorset! What a wonderful path to take across the fields through the rows of corn. /
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Half an hour before sunset and the low angle of the sun brings out the rich autumn colours of the beech avenue within the Kingston Lacy Estate, Dorset.
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The beautiful folded landscape of Eggardon Hill. Eggardon Hill is located on chalk uplands about four miles to the east of Bridport in Dorset. It stands 250 metres above sea level, and has wonderful panoramic views all around. From about 300BC it was used as a hill fort. Nowadays it is a popular place to walk, but is often windy and swathed in fog.
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Milton Abbas was originally called Middleton, that is middle tun the middle farm or hamlet. In about 933 a Saxon king, Aethelstan founded a monastery there. In 964 King Edgar replaced the monks with Benedictines. In 1752 the manor was sold to Joseph Damer (1718-1798), who later became Earl of Dorchester. In 1771 he decided to build a new mansion and he employed Sir William Chambers (1723-1796) to build it but the two men fell out and Chambers resigned in 1774. The new house was completed by James Wyatt (1746-1813). Damer also employed the famous landscape gardener Capability Brown (1716-1783). Damer decided to remove the existing houses in the town because they spoilt his view. He waited till leases ran out and in the 1780s he demolished the existing cottages and replaced them with new ones further away. He also moved the almshouses. The new settlement was renamed Milton Abbas.
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Lyme Regis, the ‘Pearl of Dorset’, is perhaps best known for the Cobb, a protective harbour wall built during the early years of the port. It provided an artificial harbour and a protective breakwater to shelter the town from storms. The first mention of the Cobb is from an early 14th century report, mentioning serious storm damage to the structure. The Cobb was originally detached from the shore at high tide, but was eventually completely attached in the latter half of the 18th century. Early the following century, it was completely reconstructed in Portland Stone. Jane Austen stayed in the resort and featured it in two of her novels – “Persuasion” and “Northanger Abbey”. Author John Fowles lived in Lyme Regis and his best-known novel, “The French Lieutenant’s Woman”, was set here. The film adaptation with Jeremy Irons and Meryl Streep also features the famous Cobb. On the horizon can just be seen the wedge shaped Isle of Portland. Canon Ixus 970 I5
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The Church in Arne, Dorset was built in the 13th century by order of the Abbess of Shaftesbury, the first being Ethelgeva, King Alfred’s daughter. The building was first a Chantry but was then annexed as a Chapel of Ease to Holy Trinity church in Wareham. It was dedicated to St. Nicholas and consists of a body and chancel under one roof with a Porch and buttress on the south side, unchanged to this day. The architecture is early English with the East Window being a triplet, dating the building around 1220 AD. It is of interest that the heads of some of the windows were hewn out of a single stone. There is no tower, but a heavy bell is hung in the West end roof space; this bell was cast by Mears in1782, replacing the original bell of 1625. The Altar was made from pre-Reformation stone which had been buried outside. This stone has five small crosses carved on it and is placed on a timber frame. On the south side of the altar is a piscine, like a basin or drain often seen in old churches for disposing of water used in sacred vessels. Above the door can be seen the remains of an early fresco, date unknown.
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A view across the front at Lyme Regis from beneath the Millennium Clock. Lyme Regis is a coastal town in West Dorset, England and forms part of the Jurassic Coast. The town lies in Lyme Bay, on the English Channel coast at the Dorset-Devon border. It is nicknamed “The Pearl of Dorset”. In the 13th century it developed into one of the major British ports. The town was home to Admiral Sir George Somers, its one time mayor and parliamentarian, who founded the Somers Isles, better known as Bermuda. Lyme Regis is twinned with St. George’s, in that Atlantic archipelago. Lyme is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086. The Royal Charter was granted by King Edward I in 1284, with the addition of ‘Regis’ to the town’s name. This charter was confirmed by Elizabeth I in 1591.
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Thorncombe Wood, near Dorchester, Dorset A 26-hectare site close to Dorchester with a wide diversity of habitats including heathland, woodland and a pond. Thorncombe Wood is listed on the Ancient Woodland Inventory, is a Site of Nature Conservation Interest and features the remains of a Roman road which is a Scheduled Ancient Monument. Canon Ixus 970 IS
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Majestic Ruin Corfe Castle, probably Dorset’s finest stronghold, has had a long and sometimes turbulent history, stretching back over 1000 years. Positioned strategically in the gap between the Purbeck hills, it was perfect for defending inland Dorset against attack from the sea. During the English Civil War, the castle twice came under siege by Parliamentarian forces. At the time of the first siege in 1643, Sir John Bankes was away from his estate, so defence of the castle was led by his wife Lady Mary Bankes — “Brave Dame Mary” as she became known. The siege lasted for six weeks before the Parliamentarians withdrew with the loss of 100 men. The second siege, in 1646, was resisted for two months before the castle was betrayed by a member of the garrison. After its capture, the castle was slighted (destroyed) with some explosives and mainly by undermining to ensure that it could never stand again as a Royalist stronghold. In the centuries that followed, the local population took advantage of this easy source of building material and masonry; door frames and other items originally from the castle can be seen in a number of houses in the village. This shot was taken from up on East Hill. Date: 7th March 2009
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Taken from Maiden Castle, Dorchester, Dorset, as the sun cast its final rays at the end of a glorious spring day Canon Ixus 970 IS Orton effect, blended layers plus one of my own textures
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This is the cottage that the Poet Thomas Hardy / was born in, it is situated at Lower Bockhampton, Dorset, UK. / It is a National Trust Property. / Thank you for looking. / BEST VIEWED LARGER Edited in Dynamic Photo HDR & Orton Effect.
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Kimmeridge Bay last night, Nikon D300, 0.9ND attenuator, 0.6ND, 10mm Sigma
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HDR photograph of Abbotsbury, Dorset Canon 5D with EF35-80mm 3 shot handheld HDR using a wall for support (f8.0 at 1/30, f8.0 at 1/80, f8.0 at 1/200) processed with Photomatix Pro and Photoshop.
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Gad Cliff The county of Dorset in England has been my home for nigh on 30 years, and yet it always seems possible to find some previously unknown (to me) treasure, like this view for example. Gad Cliff is close to the abandoned village of Tyneham (taken over by the army during the second World War) between Kimmeridge and Lulworth. I’ve been visiting Tyneham for years and have seen Gad Cliff many times, towering above the village to the South, but I had not fully appreciated its true magnificence until last week, when we walked the coastal path between Kimmeridge and Worbarrow. Looking west beyond the cliff are Worbarrow Bay, Mupe Bay and Mupe Rocks (top of shot, just left of centre). Further along the coast lie Lulworth Cove, Durdle Door, the town of Weymouth and the Isle of Portland. Hope you like the shot, thanks for visiting! Number of views to date = 100 Date: 24th May 2009 This shot was featured by the United Kingdom group, 31st May 2009
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Pulpit Rock / Isle of Portland / Dorset Another delve into the archives / Photo taken Aug 2006 / William was sailing at the Topper Nationals at Weymouth Camera powershot s50 /
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A long exposure of the remains of Swanage Old Pier, Dorset, UK. Dec ‘09 – sold a matted print, many thanks!
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Bright Star In September 1820, poet John Keats landed at Lulworth Cove in Dorset, England on his way to Italy as a passenger on board the sailing brig ‘Maria Crowther’. Apparently he wrote the poem Bright Star (below) to commemorate his last night on English soil. Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art- / Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night / And watching, with eternal lids apart, / Like nature’s patient, sleepless Eremite, / The moving waters at their priestlike task / Of pure ablution round earth’s human shores, / Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask / Of snow upon the mountains and the moors- / No-yet still stedfast, still unchangeable, / Pillow’d upon my fair love’s ripening breast, / To feel for ever its soft fall and swell, / Awake for ever in a sweet unrest, / Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath, / And so live ever-or else swoon to death. John Keats In common with many places along the Dorset coast, Lulworth also has a smuggling history. Photograph taken: 27th September 2009
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Late October poppies in North Dorset, UK.
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Sturminster Marshall / This is a very pretty little villiage nestling in the beautiful Dorset countryside. And what a beautiful summers morning it was. PERFIC!! / Edited from RAW in CS3 and finished off in Picasa3 FREE DOWNLOAD /
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