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The Royal Crescent


The Royal Crescent
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Copyright: Silke Force Lady of the Lens (Silke) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2847 W: 263 N: 5947] (23588)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2008-05-08
Categories: Architecture
Camera: Nikon D-70s, Sigma 18-200 mm (F3.5-6.3), Sigma UV 62 mm
Exposure: f/8, 1/500 seconds
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2008-06-22 4:14
Viewed: 466
Points: 52
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
The Royal Crescent was an 18th Century speculative, entrepreneurial & commercial venture. John Wood the Younger designed this townhouse development for the newly emerging middle class that could not afford grand country mansions but sought and could afford fairly large homes in the city.

Originally some of the houses were rented out for a social season – to socially “acceptable” people only – by the floor or house. Sometimes these tenants would arrive with their entire household, including furniture, linens, carpets, tableware and all the necessities of home.

Today eight of these houses are each occupied by single families, one house is a museum, and the central two houses form a hotel.

I tried to capture the sweep of the building from this angle and show how the lawns are laid out - you might notice if you look carefully, that there is a break in the expanse of grass. This was to keep sheep from wandering all the way to the front doors of these grand homes, for the lower portion (where I am standing) was still grazing land when the houses were built. However, this wall (called a Ha-Ha) was built in such a way as to make the stretch of lawns appear continuous when viewed from the buildings above.

Tech: Captured in Raw, adjusted contrasts, levels and colour saturation slightly in raw, converted to jpg, cropped out excess lawns at the base of the picture, adjusted curves, added framing at top at bottom, resized, sharpened, and signed

Thanks for looking and enjoy the rest of your weekend in safety and good health.
shelbeesmom, Derona, Masroor, harpya, chrisJ, kross1, lisapw1, patshoo, tnahari, PierreFrigon, dareco, Refugee, Hendrika, glint, sorinabal has marked this note useful
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A wonderful panoramic view here of these stone buildings! Love how you processed this! I like the curve (crescent) here and the colors are so vivid! What a place to visit, someday I want to hit all of Europe! What? No white specs? No white specs that are really sheep? HAHA! I meant to say sheep yesterday on your pic and just didn’t because……… half asleep! Marvelous work….so glad I harassed you into posting!
B-)
Linda

Hi Silke

Very good shot of this iconic landmark.
Like your composition and POV with the building on the right.
TFS

Regards Derek

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  • ttreen Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1407 W: 130 N: 3826] (15896)
  • [2008-06-22 5:21]

Hi Silke,
I do not think I'd be considered "socially acceptable" LOL
I really love the colors here .. perfect POV to show the buildings... Looks like and amazing place.. very peaceful


Enjoy your Sunday

Tricia

Hi Silke..great panoramic shot...wonderful tones and details.

Roger

Hello Silke

Other wonderful look of this beautiful place.
The architecture is fantastic!
An excellent panoramic of this building.
wonderful tones and details.
Congratulations, I like that!

Sérgio

Hi Silke,

Superb shot! Lovely composition. Beautiful green color combined with the blue sky. Strong old building. Seems a train with a long tail. Did you sharpened it?

P.S: Thanks a lot for your kind attention on my note.

Regards,
Masroor

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  • chrisJ Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 4220 W: 414 N: 6630] (42005)
  • [2008-06-22 7:26]

Hi Silke

Good perspective control, with superb sharpness & colour. I like the u shaped dip of the long corridor at left. Tfs!

This is a nice panoramic shot of this amazing piece of history and architecture. The detail is nice even from a distance. Excellent work in composing the shot and the color contrast between the green grass and the stone building is really nice.
Regards,
Kevin

Impressive architectural scenery,Suitable composition that show the character of building,well prepare POV and good sharpness,Good work,TFS.

Hi Silke. This brought memories to me when I lived in England in Weston Super Mare. I saw this place and the photo is a perfect representation. The composition , the curve ,vivid colors,and the framing makes it a beautiful postcard of the most prominent feature of Bath. The other notable place in Bath are the Roman ruins.Congratulations.

Hi dera Silke,
Very beautiful panoramic view vith excellent perspective.TFS.
Cheers,

hAyAti

Hi Silke
great panorama shot. good POV. lovely colors of sky and grass. good composition.
tfs
tsilla

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  • Janice Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3265 W: 267 N: 7730] (32968)
  • [2008-06-22 13:23]

What a building - I've never heard of it before Silke. Very grand.
"Acceptable" Was that where you and Roy stayed in Bath???
Well composed image showing us the curve and the details of the building. The colours are good and I do like the whispy cloud streaks in the blue sky too.
Thank you
Janice

Fantástica imagen con una gran muestra de la arquitectura del 18Th.
Buen comentario y estupendo el formato escogido para esta presentación.
Un cordial saludo, JL.

Very interesting capture of these buildings.
Excellent capture.
TFS
Pierre

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  • dareco Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1717 W: 16 N: 840] (15143)
  • [2008-06-22 19:14]

This building is SO GORGEOUS!! Very nice depth and the detail is excellent. A really beautiful picture. TFS and have a great week!

An impressive POV Silke showing the full curve. Excellent colour and detail and well presented. TFS,
David

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  • pozaru Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3555 W: 736 N: 2391] (18990)
  • [2008-06-22 23:26]

Love this panorama !
Gorgeous compo and colors.

thanks,
v

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  • Janone Gold Star Critiquer [C: 3409 W: 0 N: 0] (0)
  • [2008-06-23 0:05]

House under the sun.!
But thanks, Garden is to empthy for me. Will take too long before trees are big enought the shelter on it.
Excellent composition of 'this Street of houses', Silke.
Jan

Well Silke, you toatlly managed to capture that sweep.
So the lawnmowing sheep were stopped by that wall. I have seen a programm on Bath on television - it is an interesting town for sure.
Lovely work and presentation.

TFS
Els

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  • glint Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 620 W: 3 N: 531] (3606)
  • [2008-06-24 5:13]

hello Silke,
you have managed to catch the cuve and sweep of the crescent very well. you've even got a blue sky.Interesting notes. Architecture is always more interesting when we have her social context.
Bev

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  • Mitra Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1254 W: 75 N: 902] (7908)
  • [2008-06-24 8:06]

Very good shot of this landmark.
Like your composition with the building on the right. Well done & TFS.
Mitra

Hello Silke

A really stunning compo here, excellent POV with good detail.what an amazing peice of architecture that building is

TFS regards Helen

Merhaba
Perfect architecture. Good POV.
Well done. TFS

Kerem

Hi Silke,

I like very much this POV. Very good perspective and atmosphere, also excellent presented in this type of frame.
TFS
Sorina

Hi Silke,
Missed this posting, sorry, it is a wonderful image taken from a superb POV, superb sharp and full of nice details. Interesting note too. When the weather is good like here, is England a wonderful country. Now they have to learn how to cook and know how the serve the guests :-) (Joking guys)
Anyeway a wonderful posting which I really enjoy.
Hans

Ah, Silke. L' architecture. Gorgeously Georgian. Janos

Hello Silke,

Iv been gone awhile and I can see you have been busy with taken some wonderful photo, excllent colors here, bg pov dof excllent details well presented photo

TFS Kyle

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