Taking advantage of all the very latest in Software available. Three RAW Frames converted and fully processed in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5, Tone Mapped with the latest version of Photomatix Pro Vs. 4.2.7 and converted with Nik's Silver Efex Pro 2, as an additional Plug-In to LR5. Software just goes on getting better and better. I had to buy a new PC with 16 GB's RAM to handle the data quickly.
Shot on the Stourhead Estate, Wiltshire, England using a B+W Digital MRC Nano KSM Circular-Polarising Filter.
Stourhead is at the heart of a 1,072-hectare (2,650-acre) estate where chalk downs, ancient woods and farmland are managed for nature conservation. The Stourton family, the Barons of Stourton, had lived in the Stourhead estate for 500 years[3] until they sold it to Sir Thomas Meres in 1714.[4] His son, John Meres, sold it to Henry Hoare I, son of wealthy banker Sir Richard Hoare in 1717.