Moreton Corbet

 How wonderful to finally be allowed to leave the house and to meet up with people outside. I have really missed that. So a photowalk was in order and an excursion planned.

The destination of choice was a beautiful woodland full of silver birch and pine trees. So peaceful and lovely to walk through, but with the overcast and drizzly weather, absolutely hopeless for photography. At least for someone with my limited skill set!

I tried a bit of intense fartnarkling to make something of a picture, but when it ended up looking absolutely nothing like it started, I thought better of it, so you will have to wait to see gorgeous photos of magical woodlands!

Next stop, Moreton Corbet. This was more like it!

This is somewhere that the overcast and slightly stormy weather really suited.

The Castle was built in varying stages from the 12th to the 18th centuries. Sadly it was so badly damaged during the civil war that it was deemed unrepairable and was left to decay. 

I do find it so incredible that parts of it seem almost untouched while other parts have completely disappeared. When you stand at the bottom and look up, you definitely wonder how long the rest of it will remain.

Nice to see a little reminder of spring and beauty and fresh beginnings taking root amongst the dereliction.

I have played around with the image in lightroom a bit, had to balance out the sky and also straighten the perspective a bit otherwise the buildings would look a very jaunty angle and more likely to topple than they actually are!

Taken from the English Heritage website, this is what the castle originally looked like. Pretty impressive I think.

So a fabulous day walking with a dear friend and a few half decent photos to boot! Doesn't get much better.

Lessons Learned: Sadly that which looks beautiful to the naked eye doesn't always translate to a beautiful photo. We have all seen gorgeous landscapes but when we see the photos they look flat and lifeless. So it was with my woodland photos, but they can't all be masterpieces!

Diet Diary: Here we go again. Through the latter stages of lockdown, eating cake has become almost a compulsion and it was the donning of hiking trousers after many months of avoidance that has made me realise the time has come to get my act together again. Darn!