Love these AnnaLois 🤩
Now Hands That Do Dishes Can Feel Soft As Your Face
for #PalacesandGardens theme of #UpstairsDownstairs
#EastCoastKin #photography #ECK #banquet #scullery #finedining #washingup #DurbarRoom #OsborneHouse #IsleOfWight #SpekeHall #Liverpool #QueenVictoria #servants #contrast
Two photographs collaged vertically giving glimpses of each in tall portrait format. Like the previous post, I wanted to capture the contrast between flawless opulence vs the hours of hard work to produce it. On the left is a view of the huge dining table in the ornate Durbar Room at Osborne House, ready for a fancy banquet. Several place settings are laid and dramatic, tropical plant displays create a centrepiece. Osborne House on the Isle of Wight was the summer palace of Queen Victoria. On the right is a scullery with a white Belfast sink below a leaded-glass window too high up to see out of. The sink has simple brass taps and various bowls next to it. This was taken at Speke Hall in Liverpool. Imagine the volume of washing up a banquet (and the preparation for it) would create for the servants!
Now Hands That Do Dishes Can Feel Soft As Your Face...
for #PalacesandGardens theme of #UpstairsDownstairs
#EastCoastKin #photography #ECK #banquet #scullery #finedining #washingup #DurbarRoom #OsborneHouse #IsleOfWight #SpekeHall #Liverpool #QueenVictoria #servants #contrast
(iPhone camera)
Struggling a bit with this fantastic theme so hefty dose of artistic licence used! Photograph taken looking up at the Minstrels Gallery in the Durbar Room at Osborne House. This was Queen Victoria's summer palace on the Isle of Wight. Looking up at the ornate white plasterwok by Bhai Ram Singh, there are three Indian-style arches over the minstrels gallery at one end of this enormous and fancy banqueting room. The gallery has an elaborate dark wood balustrade which contrasts with the plasterwork. The gallery is backlit with a warm terracotta light which risers to an amber colour, reminiscent of a sunset. This room was dramatically beautiful, though I was most drawn to the huge collection of paintings at Osborne House and could have spent a happy week just looking at those. Easy to spend a full day here - so much to see and do.
Indian Sunset
for #PalacesAndGardens theme of #SunriseOrSunset
(Huge dollop of artistic licence).
#EastCoastKin #photography #light #warmth #DurbarRoom #OsborneHouse #IsleOfWight
#plasterwork #ornate #Queen #minstrelsgallery #lookup
(Android phone camera)
