Hinton Ampner is an old estate, which is now owned by the National Trust. When I say old – Roundheads set up camp in the parkland during the Battle of Cheriton in 1644! It sits within the South Downs National Park, and so it sits in an area of great beauty. If one were walking the South Downs Way, it wouldn’t be a massive diversion to the front gate.
Perhaps because of all this, the parkland contains a number of old trees- very old! One or two are as old as 600 years, most are over 100. There is an “Ancient Tree Trail” that I mostly walked, complete with tripod and camera. Most of the images I took were colour and I think will work better. I was tempted to start a roll of black and white, when I saw the twisted trunk below! Above, is, if I’ve read the map correctly, is a Sweet Chestnut Tree a couple of hundred years old.
Above are two Lime Trees, originally planted to line the avenue that ran up to the original Tudor house. They were planted in the early 1800’s.
I’m hopeful that the images I made in colour are going to turn out better. Those are yet to be processed as I like to send at least a couple of rolls off at a time to spread the cost of postage over more film, and I have one roll still in camera to finish up! Of course I will post some of those if they are worthwhile. Processing of these B/W shots of course I did at home.
Chatter: Hasselblad 501cm with 80mm, Delta 100, processed in Ilfosol 3 1+9, 5 mins at 22° ish – as that was the ambient temp including the “cold tap water!”
S.H.O.U.T. 