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Photo: Lower Brailes Church again

S11m•

5 years ago•29 Replies

I took a photo of this scene the other day ...and posted it.

I thought the scene was worthy of a "proper" camera... so I went there again today.

After it had stopped raining I did not have time to walk all the way there and back with my heavy camera - so I drove most of the way ...It was less than a km from where I parked the car to where I took the photo, but I walked all the way around Brailes Hill, and so it was still a 7km walk with 170m of height gain!

My max heart rate was 131 bpm, and the average 100 - which is plenty - as I am 71!

Did I over-enhance the colours? what does it look like to you on your monitor?

Edit... I have re-edited it and enhanced it less.

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leo605 years ago

Beautiful! X lots!! Xx

springcross5 years ago

It does seem just a touch over-enhanced but it may be the shadows of clouds over the fields making it look darker than it actually is. It really is a lovely photo though S11. Do you know the age of the church?

S11m• in reply tospringcross5 years ago

Yes - I did turn down the vibrance and the reds - but I should have started over again.

I was "rather disappointed" - I thought when I was out that the picture did not look very sharp in the viewfinder (I looked for the texture of the stonework on the church)... I thought that my sight was not as good as it was - but I remembered that I dropped it the other day - and I think some of the elements of the lens are out of alignment.

springcross• in reply toS11m5 years ago

Don't be disappointed, it's a lovely shot.

S11m• in reply tospringcross5 years ago

I was "disappointed" because I realised I had damaged my camera!

springcross• in reply toS11m5 years ago

That's disappointing, it's not badly damaged is it?

S11m• in reply tospringcross5 years ago

There is no visible damage… but they might have to take it all apart to readjust.

springcross• in reply toS11m5 years ago

What a nuisance!

S11m• in reply tospringcross5 years ago

Age of Lower Brailes Church:

A few stones indicate the presence of a late Saxon or early Norman church, and the earliest part of the present church dates from the twelfth century. The first recorded incumbent, in 1120, was a priest named Thomas. Since then there have been 54 incumbents, the most recent of whom, Nicholas Morgan, retired in October 2016 having served the parish for 37 years (the fourth longest).

Most of what we now know as St George’s was built between 1325 and 1375 in the decorated style which gives it its graceful proportions and light, airy atmosphere. There is some evidence that building was interrupted by the Black Death in 1349 and another plague in 1360. The varied carvings which support the roof trusses, the pattern-book font and the magnificent east window, with its five trefoiled lights and net tracery, also date from the fourteenth century.

During the fifteenth century, the 120ft (40m) west tower was added. It is an important local landmark and a Christian beacon. It houses a clock, a carillon and six bells. The clock mechanism can be dated fairly accurately at 1710; it was in working order until 1957 when it was replaced by an electric movement. The carillon mechanism (which plays hymn tunes four times a day) is of the same date and is now electrically driven. The bells are the second heaviest peal of six bells in the world. The largest, the tenor bell, weighs nearly 1.5 tons! Between 1953 and 1956, Canon Kemp arranged for the bells to be removed from the tower, refurbished and reinstalled

springcross• in reply toS11m5 years ago

Oh my goodness, you really know your stuff don't you, I'm very impressed. What a colourful history it has, I bet it's lovely inside.

S11m• in reply tospringcross5 years ago

No - I know nowt... I Googled it!

springcross• in reply toS11m5 years ago

😀 Google is the font of knowledge (well a lot of knowledge).

Jennymary5 years ago

It's a beautiful picture

5 years ago

Super view S11m and pretty photograph.

S11m5 years ago

It was green - particularly after the recent rain - I hate muddy bluey greens, it is great to have the tools to "correct" it but I overdid it. I have re-edited and changed the picture.

You can tell "it" that a house is neutral white, or a roof is neutral grey... and it adjusts the colours... or you can specify the colour temperature... which gives you a starting point before you get into too much detail.

S11m5 years ago

That house, it told me, is 4,500k colour temperature - and another, in part of the picture I cropped off, is 5,200k... but the colour temperature is the red/blue balance - and it also sets the "tint".

S11m5 years ago

I could have brought back a handful of grass as a colour sample - but "aerial perspective" makes the colour of distant objects bluer - so, if you over-correct the colours, you lose some of the sense of depth.

bobbybobbAmbassador5 years ago

I like the photograph, the greens are rich and the white house and church stand out really nicely against the red brick and the grey roof top's. 👍😊

S11m• in reply tobobbybobb5 years ago

Is it 02:12 where you are?

bobbybobbAmbassador• in reply toS11m5 years ago

I'm watching the CBS reality channel, I have insomnia, for a couple of years now. I'm often awake in the middle of the night. 😂

daveh1215 years ago

It’s perfect!

Marthabob5 years ago

So lovely. I love this part of the world. I went to school in Sibford Ferris in the 1960’s

MidoriVisually impaired5 years ago

I think the green is enhanced by the patch of sunlight in the fields beyond (contrast).

RoadRunner445 years ago

Hi, What a very picturesque view. Absolutely lovely! The church standing in the middle of the village and surrounded by patchwork quilt fields. It's a view that needs an artists brush in my opinion.

That walk which took you to this spot must have been well worth it to get this snap. You have a very good eye. I look forward to others you post.

S11m• in reply toRoadRunner445 years ago

Feel free to paint your version.

Garrett06065 years ago

Beautiful! I’m an American living in Florida but I have some immediate family living in Essex so I travel there a lot. The UK is beautiful in ways that are different from the US. It’s not just a matter of the topography, but historically there is so much interwoven into what one can see. I cannot wait until this pandemic ends and I can travel to the UK again.

Garrett06065 years ago

My travels take me to Chelmsford, but I particularly enjoy Billericay, a quaint little village that is still centered around the original Roman High Road where the 13th/14th century church still stands amidst shops that still have traces of older architecture and design. There is even a small Billericay Museum. Rumor has it that there is a building on the High Road where the Mayflower Compact was signed (rumor) being a key word.

Sarahvit5 years ago

I think the photo looks great. Lovely scenic view.

CraftypersonReading Rabbits5 years ago

That's a lovely view and pic

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