Picton Castle: Owls
Picton Castle in Pembrokeshire is also home to the Welsh Owl Garden:
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Picton Castle in Pembrokeshire is also home to the Welsh Owl Garden:
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Built in 1280, Picton Castle has been developed over the centuries into Pembrokeshire’s finest stately home:
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Much of what remains of Carew Castle today was the work of Sir Nicholas de Carew (who died in 1311) although it was slowly adapted over the next 250 years from Medieval fortress to Elizabethan manor.
Carew has a photogenic location situated next to a tidal mill pond.
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There has been a castle on this site in Pembroke since 1093, although much of what you see today dates back to the 12th/13th Century.
The massive 80ft high cylindrical stone keep is a particularly noteworthy architectural feature. Pembroke was also the birth place of Henry Tudor in 1457, who became the future King Henry VII, first of the famous Tudor dynasty of English monarchs.
It was a particularly wet and grey day when we visited Pembroke Castle last October, so I’ve tried to work with that in the processing of the shots below, making them a little darker and more contrasty than I would normally.
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A few shots of Little Haven in Pembrokeshire:
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A few more wet and windswept beach shots:
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Beaches can be moody and atmospheric places on wet and windy days:
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I love ancient monuments like this, full of mystery and unanswered questions about the lives and deaths of our Neolithic ancestors. What were they thinking when they built this 5,000 years ago, who was it for and why did they build it in that particular location?
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© Mark Simms Photography (2020)
© Mark Simms Photography (2020)