Illuminations

[puddleshark]

Went to the Secret Garden at Carey, just after sunset, to see the illuminations.


Not quite dark.


From the car park, follow the lights through the woods...


The walled garden by night. The little café was open, and if I had bought a hot chocolate when I first arrived, I could have sat by the fire to drink it. (The café too busy and the tables all taken by the time I came to leave...)








Magic mushrooms...







The stars came out, Orion above the branches of the illuminated oak, and a blackbird was singing twilight songs.



Pieces of the Berlin Wall lurk among the rhododendrons.

Comments

[summersgate]

Wonderful pictures! You must have a steady hand - or a tripod?

[puddleshark]

Thanks!

I didn't dare take a tripod, since there would be people wandering about in the dark. But I took my Sigma 50mm fixed lens, so I could shoot handheld at f1.8, and I upped the ISO to 3200.

[heleninwales]

Those are wonderful but I particularly liked the magic mushrooms and the illuminated oak.

[puddleshark]

Thanks!

I loved those mushrooms - the way they had been 'planted' on old tree stumps in The Stumpery. They really looked at home.