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Home » SUNDAY THEMES « Previous image  · Slide Show · Next image » « Previous image · Next image » My favourite historical building Click on image to view larger image « Previous image  · Slide Show · Next image » Photo Details veejaycee Registered: February 2009 Posts: 5,689 My wife's favourite view of Jervaulx Abbey. This is one of my favourite places, both for photography and for a place to simply relax in peaceful surroundings. Jervaulx Abbey is privately owned yet entrance is free with a box for donations should a visitor feel it worthwhile, and most do. The Abbey, a victim of King Henry VIII's dissolution of of the monasteries, is preserved but not sanitised. Plants are allowed to grow over the the structure and form a thatch which protects the ruins. The nearby Fountains Abbey is better known and I for one am happy for it to remain so. However, there the ruins have been cleared and cleaned, as a result of this, carvings have been weathered away but not so at Jervaulx. Jervaulx Abbey is a little known jewel. Visit this wonderful place for photography or spiritual renewal, you will not regret it. It is situated in wonderful oak-dotted Yorkshire pastureland between Middleham and Ripon. It is likely that you will have the place to yourself. I took this a several years ago with my then new Nikon D70 and have revisited the images from that time with more recent software and techniques which has improved the picture greatly. That is a real benefit of taking raw files - whatever you do, the original is always there and all previous changes can undone. Here I removed the effects of a badly placed and over-strong ND grad. · Date: Sun August 8, 2010 · Views: 461 · Additional Info Keywords: Yorkshire, Jervaulx Abbey, Historic, Monastery. Camera Make / Model: Nikon D70 Lens Make / Focal Length: Nikon 18-70mm @ 27mm, f14 @ 1/60, ISO 100 Filter / Type Used: CPL, ND grad State / County / Area Image taken: West Yorkshire Processing Software Applications Used NX2 - CS4 Country Image Taken United Kingdom « more · more »

Author Thread   janper44 Registered: December 2009 Posts: 7,084 Sun August 8, 2010 2:24pm I like the perspective you adopted for this image Vic stepping the eyes of the viewer through the picture by the placement of the stonework ruins, the sense of texturing that comes through in the image (I find texturing so important in pictures of this nature which help to enhance the historic feel of the buildings), and the quality of the lighting (highlighting the stonework). Diane Registered: February 2009 Posts: 4,093 Sun August 8, 2010 3:54pm I really like your exposure on this, Vic, gives a true feeling of standing there viewing it live. Especially like the view of the front wall standing there without sides to support it - emphasizes the age of this old abbey. King Kenry VIII sure left his mark on history...sure glad I wasn't one of his wives. lrw1966 Registered: November 2008 Posts: 3,889 Sun August 8, 2010 8:45pm Vic, Hi: Marvelous for the Sunday Theme. Your compositon presents all the history - of the abbey - in it purest form. Expectional notes, as always. A eye pleasing image to study and enjoy. Larry Zebedee Registered: June 2009 Posts: 1,204 Mon August 9, 2010 10:14am Hi Vic - this looks such an amzing place - so much so I have googled it and found it's only 20 miles from my house so I shall certainly be visiting this place in the very near future. I am completly obsessed with anything from the Tudor eara - King Henry had a lot to answer for taking these beautiful buildings apart. Beautiful composition, exposure and details. I do find I want to tilt it to the left - but that might just be me, you know I have one leg longer than the other Thanks Paula PhotoSteve Registered: February 2009 Posts: 1,776 Mon August 9, 2010 5:33pm My eyes detect the tilt that Zebedee describes. The also see the wonder that others so ably described. Mick Registered: January 2009 Posts: 1,608 Thu August 12, 2010 1:16pm We have discussed this picture before, I know but this shot seems to have a very yellow cast to it, weather it is the light or the reflections from the grass on the buildings or visa versa I don't know .. it does appear that you have tilt too L to R but it may be an optical illusion as the ruins seem to be at 90deg

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