National Arboretum – Day Out

The weather was clear but the wind was chilly. It’s a good enough reason to jump in the car and find a place to explore. We settled on the National Arboretum (https://www.thenma.org.uk/) located north of where I live. It’s a huge place with hundreds of memorials to various wars, conflicts and those who’ve given their lives across a multitude of causes. While it’s a sombering place, it’s also a lovely grand park to walk around, with statues, signs, monuments and lots of hidden nooks and crannies filled with lovely memorial tokens.

I ended up with a few photos I liked, but the one above is shot of the day. I was shooting with the Hasselblad X1D and 45mm lens. I did have a polariser on for most of the day.

On an unrelated note, shooting with the Hasselblad has presented a few logistical issues that I did mention on my editing stream. I moved 50 images to my server so that I have redundant backups. The problem is that 100mb files quickly rack up the file sizes!!

Yeah, that’s a lot of memory! I’m going to quickly burn through the 4TB I have on my server shooting with this camera … that said, the images are glorious and lovely to work with!

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