Fountains Abbey

Yorkshire, all taken with 1Ds MKII

First with 17-35 F2.8 : lens, ND grad

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Second with 100-400 F4.5-5.3 L lens

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Third with 12-24mm lens

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Last 12-24mm, a bit of experiment with duo-tones
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NO 2 is my favourite Les - you will need to look for the white stag when you are up here next week

No. 1 - I am really starting to appreiate the power of those Lee filters

Two and three for me Les, and four. Hell, even one is pretty good too.

One is a fine photo, but two has impact, three is a great composition, and I like the processing of four. Is the light/dark zone in the sky in #4 just an illusion caused by the ending of the clouds above the tree or what has caused it?

1. I love the angle and fg interest (blue sky above the Abbey,nice touch)

2. Cracking deer portrait

3. Very impressive mate,the angle,the sky,the lens distorsions,everything about it is very impressive.

Love the first and third ones myself. I would like to know the story behind the statue though. Two naked guys wrestling/fighting, what's up with that?
Regardless of that, I love the depth you've captured and, as mentioned, the sky, composition and distortion are great.

Classics each one. The stag is maybe a bit too centred (could have been a smidgen more to the left) for my tastes, but certainly looks great and proud.

The abbey itself is a classic Lesmac capture, nice one!

HrcRacing wrote in post #2336099
. I would like to know the story behind the statue though. Two naked guys wrestling/fighting, what's up with that?

Don't know, Dimitri is a big fan of nude male wrestling, I'll ask him

Lesmac wrote in post #2337458
Don't know, Dimitri is a big fan of nude male wrestling, I'll ask him

Of cours i know all about it,thats what the ancient Greeks use to do.

If you want to know though,it would have to be in a personal basis guys.
,hahahahahahahaha.

Lesmac wrote in post #2337458
Don't know, Dimitri is a big fan of nude male wrestling, I'll ask him

That certainly explains all the baby oil in his camera bag then.

rudgej wrote in post #2337960
That certainly explains all the baby oil in his camera bag then.

John, you'd better keep a close eye on your bag the next time you go out shooting with Dimitri!

Les, in #3, why did you cut off the bottom of the statue, thus including more sky? Also, could you give some details about the structures scattered around the grounds (including the foreground subject) in the first shot? Thanks.

J T wrote in post #2337980


Also, could you give some details about the structures scattered around the grounds (including the foreground subject) in the first shot? Thanks.

The Abbey was founded by Benedictine monks in 1132 and taken over by the Cistercians three years later. By the mid-12th century it was the richest abbey in Britain. The Abbey fell into ruins during the (Henry VIII's) Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 16th century

Why did Henry Vlll want to close the monasteries?

Prior to 1536, Henry had ordered that Thomas Cromwell, his Vicar-General, carry out an audit of the monasteries, which he did with four men in just six months, resulting in some wrong decisions. Cromwell reported 'Manifest sin, vicious, carnal and abominable living is daily used and committed amongst the little and small abbeys'. The reports of Cromwell often differed with the reports of the relevant Bishops and he tended to brand all houses as corrupt

The closure of the monasteries was initiated by the Suppression Act of 1536, which transferred to the Crown all the lands and property of any religious house with an income less than 200 pounds per year. Within four years, however, all monasteries in Britain had been dissolved - even those with an income greater than 200 pounds per year.

Why did Henry close the monasteries?

• He could not obtain a divorce from his wife, Catherine of Aragon
  
• He resolved to break with the Catholic religion, on hearing that his divorce had not been approved by the Pope He refused to accept Papal authority
  
• He needed money to fight his wars against France and Scotland
  
• He wanted to establish a new Church of England, independent of the Church of Rome

rudgej wrote in post #2337960
That certainly explains all the baby oil in his camera bag then.

And the goat