Westonbirt Arboretum

[robinp]

(see also http://theswampbbs.com/forums/showthread.php?t=19058)
Just along the road from Prince Charles's place at Highgrove near the Gloucestershire town of Tetbury is Westonbirt Arboretum.
http://www.forestry.gov.uk/westonbirt
These photos were taken in autumn but there is something to point your camera at all year round.
Be aware (particularly if taking a group or family) that the admission fees are surprisingly high :(

Cheers, Robin

[Steve P]

Great pictures and spot on white balance to Robin! :goldcup:

[robinp]

Great pictures and spot on white balance too Robin! :goldcup:
Thanks Steve,
Too much to expect the auto white balance of any camera to cope with that mixed light and great swathes of colour so I just set them all to 5300k in the raw conversion - the difficult bit was deciding how much to turn down the exuberant colour saturation of the Olympus to get the right balance between impressive and believable :)

Cheers, Robin

[Steve P]

Yes I know what you mean re the saturation. I set my w/b to 5200k for sunny days and it looks pretty spot on with my Nikon.