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Temple of the Four Winds

© Ray Clarke

Temple of the Four Winds

Uploaded: May 03, 2006 00:05:41

Description

Castle Howard, Nr York, Uk. Early in 1724 Vanburgh sent some designs for a pavillion for the south east corner of Ray Wood, Castle Howard and was pleased to learn that the 3rd Earl had chosen the temple with four Porticos. It is modelled in part on Paddadios Villa Rotonda in Vicenza. The temple is an open rotunda of 8 Tuscan columns under an octagonal entablature and dome. f20 @ 1/13 80 mm ISO 100

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Comments

Ray Clarke May 03, 2006

Commments welcome please #438466

Ray Clarke May 03, 2006

This is another view of the temple of four winds #2718702

Evy Johansen level-classic May 03, 2006

Beautiful scene R&C! Great shot! #2718705

Darryl Wilkinson May 03, 2006

Beautiful scene and composition, R&A! #2718726

Su Sana E. P level-classic May 03, 2006

Excellent capture and wonderful framing, Audrey!! Very impressive description too!! #2718735

Rakesh Syal level-classic May 03, 2006

Very nicely composed image, R&A!!! #2718745

Nadya Johnson May 03, 2006

Very nice! I like both of these! #2718747

Silvia Nunes May 03, 2006

Exellent perspectiv and composition !!
R&C! #2718756

Donna Roberts May 03, 2006

WOW - what a fantastic looking building.....I love both images but the 2nd version is what really caught my eye.
Nice capture!
Lovely new mini-pic too - good choice!
:-) ddu
#2718765

Robyn Mackenzie May 03, 2006

What a fascinating building...well captured, R&C! :o) Robyn #2718792

Mata Patan May 03, 2006

The building is wonderful but as you know the landscape is COOL!!! #2718799

Paul E. Earl May 03, 2006

This looks like something you would find at Stowe Landscape Gardens! Wonderful capture with great perspective and framing!! #2718839

Al G. Juniarsam May 03, 2006

So lovely and peaceful image, R&A!! Very beautiful capture! #2718885

Paul Michko May 03, 2006

Simply beautiful, R&A. #2718904

Jenny Bosmans May 03, 2006

Beautiful capture or this great architecture, Ray & Audrey!! Love the history as well!! #2718963

Bridgette B May 03, 2006

Gorgeous scene...wonderful image R&A! #2718970

Donald K. Cherry May 03, 2006

Beautifully seen and captured, R&A! #2719028

Ray Thoms May 03, 2006

Very unique...well done! #2719081

Judy S. Fung May 03, 2006

Lovely scene and capture, R&A! #2719138

Joy Rector May 03, 2006

beautiful #2719184

Jim Huffield May 03, 2006

Gorgeous image R&A, very nicely composed. Jim #2719249

Judyann Plante May 03, 2006

Lovely composition, R&A!

Judyann ><> #2719291

Roxanne M. Bubar May 03, 2006

Beautiful image and view. #2719356

Pat and Graham . Robards May 03, 2006

Wonderful historic building and so very interesting. I read that Vanburgh died two years later and the temple didn't finish until ten years after his death.

Beautifully shot with the trees forming a frame, well done R&A. ~Pat #2719586

Anita Ott May 03, 2006

Great capture, this is just picture perfect! #2719683

Susan Jane Allen level-classic May 03, 2006

I see you have a new mini-pic--it's lovely! And really like this capture--very peaceful. When looking at it, I kind of had the feeling that it might be more restful to the eyes if you cropped in closer and cropped out more of the sky. What do you think? I'm no expert and rarely dare give advice--just a thought! #2719701

Laura Clay-Ballard May 03, 2006

love this gorgeous scene! fab shot! #2719723

Linda D. Lester level-classic May 03, 2006

Beautiful shot...what a view! #2719768

Pamela Shane May 03, 2006

Gorgeous structure - wonderful presentation, & thank you for the history that goes with it!! :) #2719791

Tammy Scott May 03, 2006

What a great shot and history! Wonderful framing! #2719801

Crystal M. Gove May 03, 2006

Wow, WONDERFUL, FANTASTIC image, Ray and Audrey! That was really cool of you two to add a different point. What a GORGEOUS structure! #2719870

Linda Boehme level-classic May 03, 2006

Beautiful image, Ray and Audrey! Love the view! Great description, nicely presented. #2719897

Carla Metzler May 03, 2006

Beautiful scene and capture, Ray and Audrey! #2719975

Melissa G. Meiselman May 03, 2006

Temple is wonderfully framed by branches. Great scene, Ray and Audrey. I also like the second view because of its dramatic POV. I could imagine it being cropped. #2720016

Shelly A. Van Camp level-classic May 03, 2006

Very Pretty place! Love how you centered this and the Trees. Great capture and thanks for telling us about it. #2720059

Agnes Fegan level-deluxe May 03, 2006

Nicely framed shot of this historic building - and a good history lesson too! #2720067

Emile Abbott level-deluxe May 03, 2006

Wonderful presentation and capture of this historic place. #2720255

Darren K. Fisher May 03, 2006

Such a beautiful structure and you captured it well. #2720301

Colleen Braun May 03, 2006

very regal looking... #2720425

Claudia Kuhn level-classic May 03, 2006

Both shots are nice! Very interesting building! I'd love to see the details of this place. #2720578

Diana Child May 03, 2006

Lovely!! #2720606

Cathy Barrows May 03, 2006

sucha gorgeous place #2720922

Karen Engelbreth May 03, 2006

Wonderful building - great shot and story, Ray! #2721108

Dale Ann Cubbage May 03, 2006

So beautiful! Great work!

da #2721134

Protacio Serna May 03, 2006

It is indeed a beautiful place with an impressive architecture. Second picture is way better than the first one simply because of the angle where it was taken, but both shots suffer from an overexposed sky.

Second picture evens shows some glare on the left side of the building.

Both frames might improve by using a tighter composition since the inclusion of the trees on both sides of first frame force to include too much sky.

The constructive part of my comment is that when the weather is not on your side; try a different approach like capturing the details for instance. I’m sure you tried some, but regarding these two images the problems is that light wasn’t good at that moment.

I also feel both images are soft. I could think that it was due to haze perhaps, but first shot’s description reads 80 mm, and that simply states that you where too far from your subject to get a good shot. 24 mm, 35 mm, even 50 mm are recommended, but telephoto doesn’t make justice to these architectural jewels.

Regards
Pserna.com
#2721144

Stan Kwasniowski May 03, 2006

Clarke's, thanks for the history lesson, I wish I could be there to do some photography, I like the shot, and glad to see that Pserna is back #2721322

Melissa A. Mannon May 03, 2006

I think that you caught a nice mood here. I think the softness enhances the rainy atmosphere in this case. It seems like a very beautiful place. #2721414

Jamil Saliba May 03, 2006

What an elegancy and beauty going together in this beautifuly captured temple , great find Ray & Audrey #2721694

Bill Wyatt May 03, 2006

Beautiful image and composition, thanks for sharing the image and it's history with us. #2721839

Dan E. May 03, 2006

Nice Shot! #2722034

May 03, 2006

A nice place to capture history! Great image and study. #2722201

Glenn E. Urquhart May 03, 2006

Beautiful composition and great history R&A! Cheers, Glenn. #2722452

Steven Gunnerson May 04, 2006

Wonderful shot R&A! I really like how you've included some history in your description. I really like the perspective of the 2nd shot as well. #2725248

Sylvia Rossler May 05, 2006

It is an architectural jewel indeed !!! I really have to visit the UK someday with all those wonderful shots I already saw here on BP ! Would be a gorgeous place for a wedding too :O) Thanks for the history !!! #2726644

Liane Saliba May 05, 2006

Very nice shot and good composition!!! #2728526

ALLEN O. HOWARD May 05, 2006

Absolutely beautiful subject and composition! Way to go R&A #2729524

Wende Trew May 05, 2006

This is sooo beautiful!!! Great image!!! #2730386

Mary N C. Taitt May 07, 2006

What a truly lovely spot, how interesting! Nice capture. Mary :-) #2734388

ronda chatelle level-classic May 16, 2006

Amazing Treasure! This is just so cool! I would love to see this in person! OUTSTANDING presentation. So informative. I Love so many of your images!!! #2769739

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