Conical Towers - First C&C

Mellor

This is my first C&C thread, these photos are almost pretty much my first ever taken. Would like some comments, the PP was minimal and any improvments would be a help too.

The towers caught my eye as they are unusually shaped. I seen them from a road and took a while to find a route to them. They were taken shortly after midday, and the sun was pretty harsh, hense some overexposed sky









more on flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23520301@N07/

Fajitas!

The focus is really strange on the first one. I'd love a tiny bit more detail in the foreground.

The second one would look great from a lower viewpoint, if you could get the path to lead into the two towers.

Again, a lower angle would be great in the last one too.

All in all, a good showing though - Now... Where is that?

rymus

they're the funkiest towers I've ever seen. I must go there!

Mellor

I thought the fore ground in the first was distracting so I blured part of it,
I'll put up the other one later on.
As for the location, its just on the dublin kildare border, between leixip and celbridge, its quite hidden, I managed to catch a quick peek, and had to return to find them.

Cabaal

there mad looking towers, I'd love to see them up close.

barryfitz

they are class, im livin fairly close to Celbridge and I never knew about them. Can you access the towers themselves?

Edit:the first one is extremely busy in the foreground, the second one is best for me

Mellor

Might have better access from the other side, but it is difficult.
I don't like the first one really, I might upload the original here. I should og probably used a non circular lens blur to take away foreground distraction

Mellor

Here is the first one unedited, in colour, and a lower angle shot for Fajitas





I only took these of the camera quick just now, so didn't have time to do much with them. I over exposed sky in the second irrates me.
Click the pics to go to flickr, I think

KNO3

Nice shots

The nice looking tower with the stairway is called the "wonderful barn" its basically a folly that was built built to store grain in the grounds of Castletown house AFAIK, the ones beside it I think were used to house doves, there's another one on the southside of Dublin in Churchtown which looks very similar, that one is visible from the roadway called the bottle tower, but its not as nice as the one above which I think its modelled on.

Mellor

Interesting info on the origin, it a good distance from castletown, but it previous years im sure the lands of the connelys at castletown were expansive

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wonderful_Barn

KNO3

I have never been to the one in Celbridge but I live close to the one in Chuchtown so thats how I knew about the history, I looked up before, the one in Churchtown though is a poor relation to the one you have photographed tbh.