Charleville Castle Weekend October the 18th and 19th

kjt

Hey guys,
Brilliant weekend, great to see some new and old faces!

Muchó appreciated Seb!!

Buzz Lightyear

Thanks to everybody involved in this weekend. I really enjoyed it. It was great meeting new and old faces. I enjoyed talking to Richard, one of the owners, about family history and artifacts. Lovley man. Seb, thank you very much for organising this. Well done.

Thanks to ThOnda for cooking dinner last night and for the reheats this morning.

I'm looking forward to seeing everybodys shots.

For those of you afraid of the paranormal, I would have to advise you against going. The place IS haunted. There will be some interesting shots coming back from this weekend. :eek:

Now time for some food and time in the digital dark room

Shiny

First, thanks to Seb and the volunteers in the castle for sorting out
the event and looking after everyone throughout the weekend.

I was a last minute addition to the trip and I am delighted to have went.
Great group of people and ThOnda's cooking was excellent!! :pac:...

Currently importing everything into Lightroom to be rated.

I have a few paranormal shots captured using specialist equipment that
might be interesting.

Fajitas!

Back home myself. Again, a big cheers to Seb, Smiley and Terri - Oh, and Thonda's food last night - I definitly need to find out how to make those! Student cooking will never be the same again

Great meeting all of you, and hope you enjoyed it all, and get some good photos out of it! Next time, I promise, I'll get some sleep before I head down

Didn't know anyone cought anything paranormal, will look forward to those photos.

Now... Time to get some more sleep... :pac:

RoryW

Thanks to Seb et al for organising.

Good to meet old faces and a few new ones. Photos later. Off for shower now :eek:

And if anyone is thinking of going to Charleville Castle next year, bring ear plugs :pac:

And there was a brief mention of possibly organising an overnight to Giants Causeway in a few months.

kjt

RoryW wrote: »

And if anyone is thinking of going to Charleville Castle next year, bring ear plugs :pac:

+1.... Although it looks like the snoring scared off the ghosts for the night

ThOnda

Thanks to Seb, it was excellent. The castle started to feel like home later today. I have missed only three things - camera, fast lens and tripod. I hope I'll be ready next time.

I hope I won't see a lot of pictures of me - yes, I became a model.

And the cooking? The pleasure was on my side - I just love them. The food is called placky (plural), one is just placek.

Peal and grind potatoes, peal and press garlic, eggs (without shells), plain flour, salt and marjoram. Nothing extra, except the feast

I would like to thank everyone who was there. It was excellent. I hope we could go on in similar way.

Shiny

Model ?

Yes!

Haunted ?

Yes! :eek:

GristlyEnd

Really sorry I had to leave yesterday evening and that I wasn't very chatty. Still feel like crap but got quite a few shots I'm happy with.

Sounds like I missed a great evening and sleepless night :P

latchiko

Thanks again to Seb and the castle staff for organising the weekend and making everybody feel at home. It was a great weekend and it was nice to meet all you guys.
I'm looking forward to seeing people's photographs from the castle, it was great witnessing so much creativity!

ThOnda

I warrrrrn ya, Shiny, I warrrrrn ya!

Cabaal

great weekend, nice to put faces to the names, not sure when I;l get time to process stuff

kjt

Hmmm a little spooky. I was up on the top floor this morning on my own and looking over the photos I can see a door as closed in one of my shots. Deffo nobody up there as I was there for at least 30mins.

Ghosty-licous

whyulittle

Em, has the rocking chair mysteriously moved closer to you too?

kjt

Haha, na I moved that myself... I think :eek:

ThOnda

Here are pictures from my phone. Nothing special, just happy snapping :-)

PixelTrawler

Never spotted this sub-forum before

I was wondering what this talk of the trip to Charleville castle was about on the main forum...

Guess thats why i never knew where these trips are to! Doh!

RoryW

If you go down to the woods today....


Self Portrait by Al !




More here

Buzz Lightyear

Hay well done on the photos so far lads. Here a few of mine from the weekend.


Watching the Books



Highly Strung



Frame in Ruins


Some more can be seen here

kjt

Lovely shots lads, I've only processed two three so far.

Lost To Ruin



Moving Castle



Luxury Library

bovril

Thanks for organising Seb. Nice to meet the new faces. Sorry I legged it on Sat evening. It was worth it though, had a great trip yesterday and saw a Ruddy duck which will mean nothing to all of you

Not sure when I'll get around to my photos, have a mental week ahead of me

dakar

Again, thanks to Seb and everyone else involved in organising the weekend, great job.

Here are a few of mine:

1) The obligatory Charleville virgin stairs shot



2) Something wicked this way comes........



3) How many ghosts does it take to photograph a small rocking horse?




More here

Cabaal

dakar, that axe came out pretty well in the end, must see how mine came out

elven

Fantastic time, again

Big thanks to the guys for organising, to Thonda for his masterful ways in the kitchen, and for you all for posting pictures that make me feel like I should have made the effort to use a tripod, gah KJT that library shot is bloody fantastic. And am loving the axe murderer stuff. Hang on, that didn't sound right...

P.S. Next year, seb can you put an extra field in the form that says people have to submit a declaration signed in triplicate by three independent witnesses to say that you don't snore, or you will be sleeping upstairs... please?

trishw78

Thanks again to Seb and everyone involved in organising the trip it was excellent I haven't gotten round to processing my shots yet hopefully this evening. Everyones shots so far look excellent.

Damn I knew I should have stuck around for the axe murder stuff.

Thanks for cooking Thonda

Cabaal

still have to do more processing, but here's a few so far









More on flickr

elven

i had a bit of a borrowed 5d fail when it seemed to have underexposed everything but anyway, here we have the murky bw recordings of the making of dinner

ThOnda

That stupid cat didn't run away after close threat by the knife. Fortunately no cats were harmed during making of the dinner.

Buzz Lightyear

There are some wonderful photos coming back from this great weekend at Charleville including a few surprises. Eleven's images from the kitchen give a different perspective of time spent there. As for time I'm sure our selubreious axe murderer done his own share a long, long time ago.

I had a wonderful weekend, but one of the things that surprised me about this wonderful castle is the constant struggle to haul this beast back from the grappling hands of mother nature. The castle owners and the small crew of volunteers have managed very well to keep this castle alive. The restoration project is a mammoth task. The castle is a sponge. You could easily throw a couple of million at this sponge and it would only get damp. The rooms that have been restored are wonderful, the exterior of the building is ... wow, amazing. The vast grounds alone would require an army of men to maintain. Yet the struggle with mother nature is being won through the efforts of giants. These owners and volunteers can stand tall and be counted. They are winning the battle.

Yet on the same grounds is a wonderful stable, where horses were kept for the use of the lord and lady of the house. But here the struggle is different. Mother nature is winning and gaining back ground where men have built. She is in control. This battle is unfortunately out of the hands of those who care. The giants can only stand by and watch as nature takes her course. Some day hopefully sense shall prevail.

Some of us boardsies were fortunate to steal a glimpse of this battle and record it as part of history. Here are two belonging to myself :

Stable loft in ruins



Falling Down

trishw78

Here a few offerings from myself
IR (I'm not happy with the sky)