...and a last bit of colour from Peckover House

I used a whole role of film from these gardens. I could put the majority of them up. But I will settle for 12 altogether.

They line the plants up in pretty cool ways, so you can look down the rows and get varying amounts of colour. I think there is too much green in the background and I could have been at a lower angle. But screw it.

Returning to the theme of solitary plants...

(One is the loneliest number...)

I don't know why this was there. But a wheelbarrow full of soil and plants would make a different kind of garden fixture.

I like the look of these things. I never would have thought I would take an objective interest in the shapes and forms of plants.

Here's a half decent example of the varying flora and fauna...

...as is this. It really is a great place to see. It's also shielded off nicely from Wisbech, even though it's in the centre of it. A good place to get away, quietly.

A little more colour

Carrying on with the colour theme, these are all from Peckover House and Gardens in Wisbech. The house has a pretty interesting history. It's an old Georgian house built buy the Peckover family who were Quakers, and had made their money in Banking. The house itself is nice to look around. It's not entirely open so you can't see it all, and it's been mocked up to look how it would have done more than 150 years ago. It's a pretty small place though, and they don't get a lot of money for the upkeep apparently. The funding for National Trust places have to battle it out with each other, the story goes.

The gardens really are the main attraction. I never thought I would take much interest in gardens in a photographic sense. At the same time, it's also pretty nice to sit down and relax. They do excellent cakes too.

If I were to line up two of the best (or at least favourite) photos I've taken, two of them are here below. The first is the one immediately below here. If I was interested in making them look a little better, I would probably crop the top of this a little. But it works.


This next one is pretty neat. It was just a solitary red flower amongst others. The high contrast film probably helps. I like how deep the red is.


This one is definitely one of my favourites. It's white on more white.


The next couple are just two that I like a lot. Whilst not consciously aware of it when I take photos, there is something about solitariness that I think makes for interesting scenes. You can kind of see that in most shots that I have taken. I like focusing on one thing amongst many, that stands out. Or even focusing on something unremarkable and making it stand out. It's not a unique idea, but it works for me in a big way.


Feel free to tell me what any of these flowers are. I'd be quite curious.