Wide Angle Wednesday : Landscapes

Today was supposed to be wet and horrible, so we changed that to nice and sunny and took the bike off to Great Chalfield Manor, a National Trust house and garden near Melksham in Wiltshire. The photo doesn't do the place justice really, but as the only proper landscape (albeit landscape garden) wide angle shot I managed today it will have to do.

The house is accessed by guided tour only, and the tour guide was tremendously informed and entertaining, as he related the passage of time and the changes in society that affected the home. The gardens are extensive and slightly rambling - I loved the way flowers were allowed to grow through the paved walkways, and the way in which the borders drifted into wild grasses, reed and rushes at the moat edge.

And today I managed to clear the Canon 7D of the hair which had found its way into the camera! It's been an enormous bane for days, and the airshow photo's took a lot of cleaning up (happily blue sky is fairly easy to retouch!). Lodged into the enclosure around the sensor, it must have escaped from a camera brush blower I used the other week to dislodge dust from the pentaprism.

Learn from my mistake, folks. Blower brushes are film camera technology; don't let them near your dSLR! Janet's new sewing machine came with some excellent tweezers, and the hair is gone. It's worth sharing all the advice I took too, that compressed air should also not be used inside dSLR's because of the oily propellant they are charged with...