I took my Hasselblad with a roll of Portra 160 to the small but beautiful village of Milton Abbas for the day. The village has a long history, but what is seen today is little more than 250 years old. One Joseph Damer having purchased the whole village and knocked it all down to use the stones to build himself a large house. An easy stone quarry! That done he built a new village outside of his park, and it is that, I visited. It has an unusually wide street with most of the cottages being very similar.
The main attraction however is the Abbey. Athelstan, first king of all England, camped here on his way to meet the Danes in battle, he was victorious, and so built a chapel here to commemorate his victory. The chapel still stands at the top of 111 steps but can no longer be accessed. The Abbey church – rather like a small cathedral, was founded in 933 was destroyed by a thunderstorm in 1309, and was rebuilt in the 14th and 15th centuries!
I’ve been here before so I knew the light levels were lowish inside, and even 400 iso wouldn’t help much, so I brought along my tripod. So finally on this visit I got some decent photo’s!
In the image of the Altar above I get a strange optical effect. The top row of tracing looks like there is camera movement, shake, but there isn’t any. It’s just how the tracing is cut! Below, from almost the same spot to did a 180° turn to photograph the organ.
Chatter: Hasselblad 501cm with Zeiss Planar 80mm. Kodak Portra 160.
S.H.O.U.T. 