I had a feeling this weekend could well be my last opportunity this year to photograph an autumnal scene. The weather here has been particularly fine recently and therefore cannot possibly last for much longer.
So with this in mind I decided to visit the National Trust's Stourhead Gardens in Wiltshire. This particular attraction was recommended to me by a friend who had recently paid a visit there and enthused over the spectacular setting and colour of the trees.
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Since my SatNav had malfunctioned a few days ago and not having a decent road map to hand I resorted to the Multimap.com website to obtain my route. This online facility is extremely helpful and easy to use. You simply enter your starting postcode, the destination postcode and up pops all the information you could possibly need; an over-detailed list of instructions to reach your destination, route map, distance, duration and ..... the carbon footprint of the journey!!!
So for those of you who are interested these photographs produced about 30kg of carbon into the earth's atmosphere due to my return trip in a car with a medium sized diesel engine. Perhaps I should quote this figure for all my pictures.
If I really cared about such things all I could take pictures of would be my back garden which, although is very nice thanks to my wife's stirling efforts, does not quite match the splendour of places like Stourhead.
I suppose I could have planted a tree to offset my "carbon footprint" but I really don't think I could have found the space for it.