The Blue Bridge from my previous post and this Red Bridge both link to the island garden and arboretum. The Shugborough guide book provides information that would be missed on a casual glance:
The island garden is flanked by the original course of the River Sow on the side near to the house and the new course of the river to the rear of the island – a channel which was dug out in the early 19th century. It is reached by the Red Bridge at one end and the Blue Bridge at the other.
Patrick Lichfield used a large area of the island to create an arboretum – his lasting legacy to Shugborough. Over many years he has planted oaks on the island including one grown from an acorn taken from the White House lawn.
These are now an elegant swathe of tree specimens starting with North American tree species near the Blue Bridge. European species in the central section and Asian oaks forming a fitting backdrop to the oriental planting surrounding the Red Bridge and the Chinese House.
What a delightul place!
I think you would enjoy a visit.
very Monet!
Now that you come to mention it…
It is a shame there wasn’t a nice blue sky to set it off!
photoshop?
I could do, but I confess I like my photos to be as natural as possible. As in what I saw on the day.
I normally only crop and use the adjust colours using histogram because the digital format doesn’t capture the colours properly. With my latest camera the colour adjustment is rarely necessary. Apart from cropping the photos are as the camera took them.
The photos that haven’t worked properly but are still good enough to use (for example just a bit of camera shake), I run through my photo artwork program and label them as such
Here is the only photo where I experimented on adding a nice blue sky:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/-cherrypie-/409015836/
Very nice to look at, specially on a dull, gray winter day.
The red makes the photo doesn’t it?
Will be nice when they put the top coat on too
I prefer the red on to the garish blue though, but both very striking and an unusually intricate design at each end for a small bridge.
I like the red version too, the blue one is rather wishy washy…
Wealth allows for intricate designs
Oh that’s beautiful – it can go with the blue bridge.
I did mention that the two bridges provided a link…
The designer certainly knew what he was doing here & beautiful shot too.
Thank you