Lanhydrock, Near Bodmin, Cornwall

[Hatter]

Still catching up on the holiday snaps... we visited this National Trust property while down in Cornwall a few weeks ago.

The Gatehouse

From the other side:

The House

Inside


Sugar Loaves

Lemons

Miscellaneous Containers

[Ryewolf]

Excellent set Gareth, you probably could have used a bit of key-stoning in the first image. Pretty sure the latest version of Photomatix has it built in....

[CMunzel]

2 minutes ago, Ryewolf said:

Excellent set Gareth, you probably could have used a bit of key-stoning in the first image. Pretty sure the latest version of Photomatix has it built in....

What is key stoning?

[CMunzel]

I appreciate the photos of kitchen utensils, Gareth. What are the rounded shapes? 

[Ryewolf]

6 minutes ago, CMunzel said:

What is key stoning?

Keystoning is where a building seems to lean backwards in a photo. It can be resolved by using a tilt and shift lens - very expensive or in software - not nearly as expensive

[Nikonmike]

Very nice set of images B/W works well, just did a quick correction to show you, sorry its not perfect but my mouse has a stutter.

 

[CMunzel]

7 hours ago, Ryewolf said:

Keystoning is where a building seems to lean backwards in a photo. It can be resolved by using a tilt and shift lens - very expensive or in software - not nearly as expensive

Doesn’t Topaz have something similar? 

[johntwo]

Nice set Gareth.  I sometimes don't mind leaning verticals in some situations.  For me, it can on occasion serve to emphasise the relative size of a building.  I'm not sure, but I think the cones might be sugar (?)  It hasn't always been granulated or in cubes.  I'm intrigued though by what was so valuable to need to be locked up in the box in no. 7?

[johntwo]

P.S. Re sugar cones, see here:

https://www.worldturndupsidedown.com/2013/05/how-to-make-colonial-era-sugar-cone-or.html

[CMunzel]

1 hour ago, johntwo said:

P.S. Re sugar cones, see here:

https://www.worldturndupsidedown.com/2013/05/how-to-make-colonial-era-sugar-cone-or.html

Thank you John. New to me. 

[Denis]

As Gatehouses go , that is a pretty imposing building Gareth!

 

[Hatter]

Thanks, all.

Our local pub is called "The Sugar Loaf" - named after one of those cones.
Here's a very old (April 2002) photo of it with the sign.

[Hatter]

On 11/11/2019 at 09:56, johntwo said:

I'm intrigued though by what was so valuable to need to be locked up in the box in no. 7?

I really don't know, John!  They're too uneven to be eggs and too clean to be potatoes.  Here's a larger version in colour.

[johntwo]

23 hours ago, Hatter said:

I really don't know, John!  They're too uneven to be eggs and too clean to be potatoes.  Here's a larger version in colour.
 

I'm wondering if they might be sugar loaves.  Sugar was imported from the West Indies I guess, and was probably a valuable commodity in the same way tea was for a similar reason.

[Ryewolf]

I thought they might be truffles... I know tea was kept in locked chests at one time.....

[Clicker]

The perspective tool does the job in photoshop to adjust walls in those situations too . 
 A very interesting set Gareth .... intrigued to know just what those items really are in that chest too .