3am wakeup call...

Andy

just back home from my few days in london. i had the good fortune of being able to eat and shoot with my good friends gubbs and luben :food

earlier, i posted some castles in infrared here and so now, let's look at some color shots.

but first - the important stuff. gubbs, mrs g, and gubbs' two lovely daughters took me to a wonderful nepalese restaurant, and did we ever feast.. about 6 kinds of curry, lamb, chicken, prawns, veggies (spinach, potatoes), papadums, naan, hoo-boy it was a spice fest. a thoroughly enjoyable time.

a few of the dishes


ang dorjee, our gurkha waiter


well let me tell you, luben solev takes his sweet light seriously. he calculated that sunrise would be at 0446hrs, so gubbs and luben picked me up at my hotel at 0315hrs! :yikes


mrs g had kindly picked out a lovely hotel for me in the area, and well, for the three hours i slept, i certainly didn't need this lap of luxury :lol3 :uhoh



so, we made it to bodiam castle, right at sunrise. after four days of mostly rain :cry it was worth the extra effort to get there for some sweet light






i think the best part about being a landscaper is that after the sweetlight, you get to :eat breakfast :lol3


waximondo, this ought to qualify as a "proper english fry-up" :lol3


enjoy (next to zero sleep) photography,

gus

Hmmm.curry.

Hows 'ol china going with his stop signs ? :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol

Andy

Humungus wrote:

Hmmm.curry.

Hows 'ol china going with his stop signs ? :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol

lemme tell you, i was about ready to grab the wheel more than a coupla times, 'gus!

Eric&Susan

Great shots as usuall Andy . I really love that first castle.


Eric

ginger_55

Absolutely gorgeous castle, Andy.

Is there a moat? or is that the water? Isn't there a plank that you ride the horses over to get to the castle?

ginger

Dee

Yep, that sure was some fancy hotel she found you! :

Oh my, that castle was well worth the wake up call! Had to re-orient myself with the steering wheel on the "wrong" side

And, yes, I have memories of friend eggs, fried tomatoes, and lots of tea and fried toast for breakfast! :

wxwax

Lovely castles and hotel room. I've done that and hated myself for it - leave a luxurious hotel room without ever having taken advantage of it. Where was it?

And yes, that's a Brit brekkie. No stewed tomatoes, though.

Phil U.

Wow - yes sweet light. I'd say it was worth it. Beautiful. Good food, good times, good pics.

Andy

found one more

Seamus

It looks like you had a great trip Andy, photos are excellent and the food looked delicious , it was worth the early start.

Seamus.

Nikolai

For this image

I would agree to have zero sleep, not just 3 am wakeup..
Awesome, Andy!
Good job spotting, Gubbsy!

WaterfallRich

Great shots and story, Andy! I love that 1st castle shot also.

jeff lapoint

that castle shot is amazing! nothing that hasnt already been said, but it was just what i needed today. brings me back to the time i spent surfing in easkey (northern tip of the republic of ireland). way smaller castle there though!

2 days before the biggest exam of my life...just wanted to thank you for the relaxation and good memories that photo brought back to me. thats the beauty of dgrin and photography in general...not so much about the technique or gear (though that stuff is fun) but really about where your photos can take the viewer.

-j

gubbs

Humungus wrote:

Hmmm.curry.

Hows 'ol china going with his stop signs ? :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol

andy confused me gus! he was telling me to take the third on the right at roundabouts, I didn't know where we were going until I realized he thought we went roundabouts anti clockwise

gubbs

andy wrote:

lemme tell you, i was about ready to grab the wheel more than a coupla times, 'gus!

His hands were too full of CR's so the wheel was safe

gus

gubbs wrote:

andy confused me gus! he was telling me to take the third on the right at roundabouts, I didn't know where we were going until I realized he thought we went roundabouts anti clockwise

Imagine a world without round-a-bouts How would 0zzie drivers practice fist fighting ?

Gus

erich6

Awesome pictures Andy. Sounds like a great trip all-around. Good food, company, and photo-ops...hard to top that! Thanks for sharing!

Erich

Pupator

Hey Andy,
Several nice shots here, but this one is clearly the winner in my book.

Andy

Pupator wrote:

Several nice shots here, but this one is clearly the winner in my book.

hey paul and welcome to dgrin my friend -- so nice to see you again

thanks for the kind words, for joining, too. hope to see you share some of your excellent photography with us

Andy

ginger_55 wrote:

Absolutely gorgeous castle, Andy.

Is there a moat? or is that the water? Isn't there a plank that you ride the horses over to get to the castle?

ginger

not so much a moat, as a lake around the castle there's a long bridge, take alook again...

thanks for stopping, and commenting, i really appreciate it

TristanP

That first castle shot is a killer. Absolutely worth the abbreviated rest to capture it.