I decided it would be good to revist one of my earlier haunts of old. I surveyed our chances of getting away with creating a spectacular light show in the middle of some woods at midnight. Careful planning was needed if we were to pull this one off. I looked at my previous daylight shots, and planned which were to be my first shots. i didn't want to create too much of a light show from the nearby road. I left the external shots for last, then we made our quick escape as quietlty as we had come just before the stroke of midnight.
I noted the time of sunset the night before and decided it would be good to be and set up, and in place half an hour before darkness fell. A beautifully lit evening greeted us as we walked to the castle through the woods. A ruined castle and woodland path was a great setting for lovers tonight.
Harewood castle was the subject of several paintings in the late 1790s by William Turner
A fantastic tequila sunset said good bye to the day as all around fell silent. Darkness fell and it was time to play with the torches.
The castle was founded by Sir William De Aldeburgh, he was granted a licence to crenellate, in 1366. He built the rectangular tower house, on a steep slope where it was visible for miles around. The main block of two storeys, is flanked by four angle towers, one being a plain entrance tower, the chapel is situated over the portcullis chamber. The lower kitchen wing is of four storeys, with a barrel-vaulted basement containing the well.
The castle was last occupied in the 1630s and in 1656 it was put up for sale as an 'upstanding source of stone and timber'. The Wentworths sold Harewood and Gawthorpe to Sir John Cutler, by which time the castle had probably already been partly dismantled. At Cutler's death in 1693, it passed to his daughter and then to another relative, John Boulter, who died in 1738, his estates were sold to pay debts.
Fantasy castle indeed!
There's more piccies of the castle here.
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=265602590&blogID=422870733
I noted the time of sunset the night before and decided it would be good to be and set up, and in place half an hour before darkness fell. A beautifully lit evening greeted us as we walked to the castle through the woods. A ruined castle and woodland path was a great setting for lovers tonight.
Harewood castle was the subject of several paintings in the late 1790s by William Turner
A fantastic tequila sunset said good bye to the day as all around fell silent. Darkness fell and it was time to play with the torches.
The castle was founded by Sir William De Aldeburgh, he was granted a licence to crenellate, in 1366. He built the rectangular tower house, on a steep slope where it was visible for miles around. The main block of two storeys, is flanked by four angle towers, one being a plain entrance tower, the chapel is situated over the portcullis chamber. The lower kitchen wing is of four storeys, with a barrel-vaulted basement containing the well.
The castle was last occupied in the 1630s and in 1656 it was put up for sale as an 'upstanding source of stone and timber'. The Wentworths sold Harewood and Gawthorpe to Sir John Cutler, by which time the castle had probably already been partly dismantled. At Cutler's death in 1693, it passed to his daughter and then to another relative, John Boulter, who died in 1738, his estates were sold to pay debts.
Fantasy castle indeed!
There's more piccies of the castle here.
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=265602590&blogID=422870733
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