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Hope Farm is a somewhat historic building - many structures in York are - A doctor's farm that has become a well-appointed guest house and function centre. I had the unique experience of being the only guest in on the night and was very impressed with the standard and comfort of the accomodation.
The morning brought a rather good breakfast:
And I might have just sat there and lapsed into a post-coffee coma if I hadn't seen the label on the table...
Now that's a sense of style that sent me out into the garden looking to see what else was there. Never eat your breakfast without a camera...
The Duck.
Love.
The Usual Suspects
The Old Walk
And a half dozen other charming views - all illustrative of the fact that there are beauties all about us, even in the dullest of weather. And they are there for the simplest of cameras to capture. Tech details are a Fujifilm X-E2, a 27mm pancake lens, and the whole thing set to automatic everything. I don't do complex thinking after breakfast...
If you don't have a breakfast camera, now is the time to repair to Camera Electronic and buy one*. Fujifilm, Sony, Olympus, and Canon all make imminently suitable devices and if you get more ambitious around morning tea time you can switch off the automatic pilot and start to think photographically. You may, or may not, beat the internal computer but if you set your camera to take RAW as well as jpeg images you can rescue yourself from embarrasment if you get it wrong.
Note: York is a delight in dull light - the buildings have a richness of colour that just begs for saturation shooting. Leave the rest of the camera on automatic but shift your picture style or film simulation setting to the most vivid one.
* Like, do it today. There's a One-Day March madness sale on that has significant savongs on cameras and drones.
