Uppark

I think we had the best skies of the year today, made even deeper and more dramatic by the addition of a circular polarizer on my most-used outdoor lens, the 24-105L. Uppark is of course grand, but it's not too imposing, and I imagine it was pretty trendy for its day. I think its location is one of the finest of any property of its kind. Find it here.

Finally getting a chance to shoot this place has been fantastic, the drive along the Hampshire/Sussex border is idyllic in itself. Nestling high on the South Downs, Uppark is one of the gems of the National Trust, and its remote location just outside the village of South Harting makes it all the more special. Sitting on the sweeping, perfect lawns (of which there are acres) the view is captivating, and strangely silent. It seems that wherever we are these days there is always the background hum of something, but at Uppark we heard nothing more than the cries of the Buzzards enjoying the thermals above the hills, with the shipping traffic of the English Channel in the far distance.

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