I'm a committee member of the Leicester and Rutland Gardens Trust and do the photography for them.We have an annual celebrity which raises funds for our Schools into Gardening Fund. Chris Beardshaw did a great job last year.
With some of the funds raised we were able to organise a trip to Kelmarsh Hall in Northampton for children from Belgrave St Peters C of E Primary, and I was there to record the day. Pictures were to be used for our web site and for a record for the the school and Kelmarsh.
Kelmarsh is a special place, from the web site
Built for the Hanbury family in the 1730s by virtuoso architect, James Gibbs and builder, Francis Smith of Warwick, Kelmarsh Hall was praised by historian Nikolaus Pevsner as, “a perfect, extremely reticent design, done in an impeccable taste.”
One other arbiter of fashion to leave her mark on the Hall was Nancy Lancaster. Drawn by the house’s fine bone structure, her taste for combining comfort with formality set the trend for the Twentieth Century’s Country House look.
Her spirit still pervades the house today in the delicate terracotta colouring of the Great Hall, the exuberant Chinese wallpaper and seasonal flower arrangements.
I wanted to take pictures that did not concentrate on individuals and were more abstact. We had permission to photgraph all except one child which made life a little more challenging.
Image processing for the web page is very different and here's the layout
I make up the blocks of images to hold the text in place, separated by white borders
These are 194px by 574px, so low res but you do need good quality to start with.
I particularly liked this one, which seemed to sum up the day.
Here's the link to the page
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