A visit to Chirk Castle

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A very interesting castle....started in 1295...as one of the Welsh Border Castles, then home to the Middleton family and in early 20th century leased to Howard de Walden...who invested heavily having made his money from importing saffron....from which the town of Safron Walden is apparently named....I hope the guide wasn't making this up!

This is also my first proper outing with the 200D and using the 18-55STM only.

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...taken from that most important feature of National trust properties...the tea room.

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....this is at ISO6400...not too bad but not great.....the portrait is Princess Anne....the one who became Queen Ann after William of Orange

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the Long Gallery at ISO1600

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also ISO1600

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the artist in me says its ok to cut people in half

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super views

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across the cheshire plain into Shropshire...the Wrekin on the horizon left

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Re: A visit to Chirk Castle

Nice series Brian


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Re: A visit to Chirk Castle

Thanks Peter.

[colin C]

Re: A visit to Chirk Castle

Nicely done Brian. Looks well worth a day out.

[tesarver]

Re: A visit to Chirk Castle

Looks like the 200D did the job. Nicely done Brian

Tom

[enneo]

Re: A visit to Chirk Castle

Nice set Brian. Did you get you get a strong whiff of cocoa from chocolate factory below.

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Re: A visit to Chirk Castle

Thanks All, Derek ....no I didn't, is there one there?...the only one I could see was the MDF factory bellowing out steam constantly.....but otherwise an unspoilt landscape.

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Re: A visit to Chirk Castle

I think the 200D is a very good performer....not really tried it with primes yet...used only STM zooms so far.....the 55-250STM seems to take a long time to focus which I'd noticed on the 100D but seems slower is anything on the 200D.