Woodworm teatime

[ColinM]

On the edge of Dartmoor (UK) is an old house with fantastic gardens called Cothele.
It's managed by the National Trust and the house is full of items that previous generations acquired.

I've no idea of the age of the crockery here, but love the feeling of wear & dilapidation of the table .



More info on the location here
http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/cotehele/

[ColinM]

Parts of the house date back hundreds of years and it was fascinating to hear stories about what the lives of previous generations were like.

The main hall was full of armour & weapons from different ages in history. Upstairs, another room had a peephole to let the masters keep an eye on what was going on. This picture was taken @50mm and is stacked from two images focused on the armour and on the hole.

[Anthony]

Colin, thanks for posting these.  I will have to visit Cothele the next time I am in the West Country.

[ColinM]

Thanks Anthony, it's worth a visit and on a good summers day it's possible to spend a whole day exploring the house, extensive gardens and riverside area and still maybe not see everything.

I guess Devon has quite a mild climate and the garden has a really wide range of semi-exotic (for the UK) plants and trees.
I posted this on another thread

[Gary]

The peephole shot is very interesting.

[Olivier]

The peephole shot is very interesting.

indeed, and it took me a while to get it!
Looks like a great place for a quiet afternoon.

[elsa hoffmann]

Looking at the last image - I wondered what it would be like to live in such a beautiful place.

[ColinM]

Thanks Gary and Oliver

indeed, and it took me a while to get it!

I guess with any image produced by stacking, you could argue that it never appears like this in real life - your eye would either be focused on the wall & cover-leafed hole, or the suit of armour in the room beyond.

Of course, most of the stacked images we normally see are for macros - there they seem more 'natural' because no one really sees real life with the minuscule DOF that a single close-up shot would produce. Our brains do the stacking for us.

[ColinM]

Looking at the last image - I wondered what it would be like to live in such a beautiful place.

Thanks Elsa, yes the grounds are beautiful.

When they take you round the bedrooms with tapestries hanging from every wall and four poster beds, and describe what life was like there hundreds of years ago, that's something else too. A bubble of privilege for the lucky few, but at least their wealth meant it got preserved.

[elsa hoffmann]

It couldnt have been easy to live a 100 + years ago, even if you had wealth. I mean - there was no internet!

[Bruno Schroder]

I'll keep this place in mind for a visit next time I'm in Dartmoor.