Banquetting house, Chipping Campden.

[ancient_mariner]

One from a wander on a generally non-sunny BH, this may have had a little help.

chipping campden banquetting house by Toni Ertl, on Flickr

C&C welcome.

 

[Bobsyeruncle]

Nice.
Like how the light highlights the building against the moody sky.

 

[sirch]

this may have had a little help.

I'm sure a lot of people will like it, nothing wrong with it at all but personally I am a bit unconvinced by the level of contrast between the bright building and the dullness of the rest of the scene

 

[gramps]

Very appealing

 

[ancient_mariner]

Thank you gentlemen.

I'm sure a lot of people will like it, nothing wrong with it at all but personally I am a bit unconvinced by the level of contrast between the bright building and the dullness of the rest of the scene

You're quite right about that, and the bushes & grass could also use a little work, having only bumped what was already there on the building and wall.

 

[Pound Coin]

That looks like the East one?

 

[ancient_mariner]

That looks like the East one?

That's right, although I hadn't realised there were 2.

 

[Pound Coin]

Yes, they are the only usable remains from the massive house that was there (of which there is just the remaining ruin). I think they were used for relaxing in after a banquet, rather than for actually banqueting. The main house was deliberately burnt down and you can see the result of this in the town - lots of red hued bands in the stone on the buildings. The stone turned red in the extreme heat of the fire.

The two banqueting houses are quite different internally; the one you photographed has more rooms, that are more modernised. The other one is, I believe, more like it would have been.

 

[Neil Burnell]

Ooh this would make a superb dark and moody mono, great conditions.

 

[ancient_mariner]

Ooh this would make a superb dark and moody mono, great conditions.

It will.

Thanks Neil.