HAMPSON COURT PALACE GARDENS

Hampton Court History in Brief Hampton Court Palace sits on the banks of the Thames in Surrey.  Cardinal Woolsey transformed Hampton Court, a grand house when he acquired it, into a sprawling palace in the mid- 16th century.  So impressed was Henry VIII with the Cardinal’s palace that Woolsey “gifted” it to the King (he really did not have a choice in the matter).  Of all of his palaces, Hampton

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SACHSENHAUSEN CONCENTRATION CAMP, ORANIENBURG, GERMANY

  Entrance to Sachenhausen Concentration Camp. Photo ©Heather Shimmin About 40 km north of Berlin, in the small town of Oranienburg, is Sachsenhausen, the first Nazi Concentration Camp.  Sachsenhausen’s design was the model on which all other Concentration Camps were based.  Its triangular shape was so that a single, mounted machine gun in the watch tower (in the centre of the triangle’s base) could reach the entire camp.   The

HOW TO DO TIME LAPSE PHOTOGRAPHY

recently went to New York to take in the sights, and most importantly, the museums. Which worked out because the weather was bitter cold and it snowed- twice. But I was perfectly happy spending my time filling my creative bucket, as it were.

Since it was so cold, I didn’t get to do as much outdoor photography as I would have liked, however, it did try several digital time lapse photography experiments.

Here are the results: