A place I went to...
Brokeback Mountain totally broke my heart. I knew I was going to get upset watching it (because of Heath Ledger), but I didn't know it was going to be so beautiful and devastating. I'm definitely adding to my mental list of films that I recommend, but also to my list of films that make me cry. I don't know how I'll ever watch it again ;___;
Anyway, on a cheerier note, yesterday, we met my uncle and aunt at Kedleston Hall, which it turned out, was the place that lot of filming for The Duchess was done. I had heard of the film; it's released some time this September. We got to see quite a lot of the rooms where filming was done, and some of the dresses worn by Keira Knightley.
^Just a couple of pictures I took, although they're actually of the back of the hall, not the front.
It was a really beautiful place, although some rooms were being renovated, due to damp problems etc. They had heaps of silverware, and artifacts from late 19th and early 20th century India, which were beautiful. And so very many books. They had two rooms, with walls of shelves laden with old, carefully preserved literature; those old books always absurd names. Just some of them were: A Geographical Map of South Cheshire, Ice or Water (a factual book actually about ice and water), George Richardson's Book of Celiings and even three volumes of Bale's Dictionary which just made me laugh.
My aunt let me use her camera, which is a really good, professional one (compared to mine, which is a run-of-the-mill inexpenisive digital camera), so I wandered round the gardens trying (and failing most of the time) to take pictures of the scenery, flowers and insects, so hopefully she'll be sending me the pictures I took soon. It'll be interesting to see how they turned out.
On a completely different note, I'm hoping to make another icon post soon (which I've totally gotten out of the habit of), so yes, be prepared I suppose. I don't really know where I was going with that sentence. I'm gonna go now **runs back to Photoshop to hide**
Anyway, on a cheerier note, yesterday, we met my uncle and aunt at Kedleston Hall, which it turned out, was the place that lot of filming for The Duchess was done. I had heard of the film; it's released some time this September. We got to see quite a lot of the rooms where filming was done, and some of the dresses worn by Keira Knightley.
^Just a couple of pictures I took, although they're actually of the back of the hall, not the front.
It was a really beautiful place, although some rooms were being renovated, due to damp problems etc. They had heaps of silverware, and artifacts from late 19th and early 20th century India, which were beautiful. And so very many books. They had two rooms, with walls of shelves laden with old, carefully preserved literature; those old books always absurd names. Just some of them were: A Geographical Map of South Cheshire, Ice or Water (a factual book actually about ice and water), George Richardson's Book of Celiings and even three volumes of Bale's Dictionary which just made me laugh.
My aunt let me use her camera, which is a really good, professional one (compared to mine, which is a run-of-the-mill inexpenisive digital camera), so I wandered round the gardens trying (and failing most of the time) to take pictures of the scenery, flowers and insects, so hopefully she'll be sending me the pictures I took soon. It'll be interesting to see how they turned out.
On a completely different note, I'm hoping to make another icon post soon (which I've totally gotten out of the habit of), so yes, be prepared I suppose. I don't really know where I was going with that sentence. I'm gonna go now **runs back to Photoshop to hide**