PigPog » TeaGardens http://pigpog.com Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:03:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Thing A Day 10 – Tea Gardens http://pigpog.com/2008/02/10/thing-a-day-10/ http://pigpog.com/2008/02/10/thing-a-day-10/#comments Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 Sam Thing A Day 9 - Tea Gardens Enough of playing with old photos - time for some new ones. Here are two words you see a great deal around Devon - "Tea Gardens" - and they're always enjoyable places to sit back, relax, and enjoy a cuppa (when the weather's nice). This particular Tea Garden is at one of our regular stops - Mad Hatter's Restaurant in Tiverton. Best coffee in town.]]> Thing A Day 9 - Tea Gardens

Enough of playing with old photos – time for some new ones. Here are two words you see a great deal around Devon – “Tea Gardens” – and they’re always enjoyable places to sit back, relax, and enjoy a cuppa (when the weather’s nice).

This particular Tea Garden is at one of our regular stops – Mad Hatter’s Restaurant in Tiverton. Best coffee in town.

]]> http://pigpog.com/2008/02/10/thing-a-day-10/feed/ 0 Yet More Monochrome Meddling http://pigpog.com/2007/10/10/yet-more-monochrome-meddling/ http://pigpog.com/2007/10/10/yet-more-monochrome-meddling/#comments Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 pigpogm Teapot at Teapots I'm really quite pleased with this one. The Nikon 55-200 VR DX lens has some heavy vignetting, but a lot of the time, it gives quite a nice effect, and I like how it's worked here.]]> A quick snap of a metal teapot on the rough wooden table at the Tea Gardens, at the Grand Western Canal (now unfortunately closed for the season, to re-open at Easter) gave me another chance to play with monochrome. Reducing with the Channel Mixer, in the usual way, using The GIMP, then warming the tone up to a nice golden brown shade:

Teapot at Teapots

I’m really quite pleased with this one. The Nikon 55-200 VR DX lens has some heavy vignetting, but a lot of the time, it gives quite a nice effect, and I like how it’s worked here.

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