Weekend in Cardiff
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sherlockbbcI know everyone is busy with spoilers and excitement, but I've been doing what I'm good at and having a weekend away again taking photos in the further afield Sherlock Land of Wales. Let me tell you there are some pretty unsalubrious places that got shot at/in/around (snapping the outside of the Gent's loo at Cardiff Castle was the least of my worries) and I had 265 photos (now whittled down to 235) to sort through and tidy up. Still, I felt I had to share this little bit of photoness with you before I got down to the hard graft.
(no not this photo, but it's a nice one anyway, AND it has a Travelling Lemon in it too!)
It's St Woolos Cemetery in Newport where BF![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
garienos, my friend spacefall and I went to see how much of the site was still extant after two years, and what had changed since we went last year. This is fast becoming my favourite location for Sherlock and is a lovely place to go anyway. We got a fantastic weekend weatherwise (which is not always going to happen in Cardiff), a beautiful evening to go and pay our respects when we arrived in Wales, and a lovely morning to go back the following day.
St Woolos is a gorgeous old Victorian cemetery (the first of its kind in the UK), on a sloping hillside, with lots of lovely mature trees, loads of tumble-down graves and a bird population that rivals that heard on the sound track when John and Mrs Hudson visited. It's only a five minute drive from the hotel we stay in and the first place I want to visit when we go over there. It also has extremely easy access from the M4 for visitors and film crews which shows why it's so popular with Consulting Detectives, Time Lords, Weeping Angels and Cybermen (I don't THINK there has been a Dalek there - the slopes might be too much for them) and of course Location Hunters.
What struck us when we visited this time in the sun and wind was how sound was travelling, and as I was wandering round making comments to myself, and asking people to stand in places so I could take photos to compare with actor positionng, I wasn't having raise my voice. The location chosen is a perfect amphitheatre. At one point asgarienos wandered off (to take some photos of graves further up the hill) I called to him to stop as I wanted to take some reference shots refering to Mrs Hudson as she walked in the same direction. He was a good 200 yards away and I didn't even have to shout. In those conditions Sherlock could certainly have heard exactly what John was saying by the grave so long as the Good Doctor was speaking clearly.
The photo I want to share with you is this one following. It's a nice panoramic of the grave site (by the big pine tree on the left) and the hiding site (the clump of bushes centre right by that strange triangular grave stone). Too big to post but you can click on this link.
(no not this photo, but it's a nice one anyway, AND it has a Travelling Lemon in it too!)
It's St Woolos Cemetery in Newport where BF
garienos, my friend spacefall and I went to see how much of the site was still extant after two years, and what had changed since we went last year. This is fast becoming my favourite location for Sherlock and is a lovely place to go anyway. We got a fantastic weekend weatherwise (which is not always going to happen in Cardiff), a beautiful evening to go and pay our respects when we arrived in Wales, and a lovely morning to go back the following day. St Woolos is a gorgeous old Victorian cemetery (the first of its kind in the UK), on a sloping hillside, with lots of lovely mature trees, loads of tumble-down graves and a bird population that rivals that heard on the sound track when John and Mrs Hudson visited. It's only a five minute drive from the hotel we stay in and the first place I want to visit when we go over there. It also has extremely easy access from the M4 for visitors and film crews which shows why it's so popular with Consulting Detectives, Time Lords, Weeping Angels and Cybermen (I don't THINK there has been a Dalek there - the slopes might be too much for them) and of course Location Hunters.
What struck us when we visited this time in the sun and wind was how sound was travelling, and as I was wandering round making comments to myself, and asking people to stand in places so I could take photos to compare with actor positionng, I wasn't having raise my voice. The location chosen is a perfect amphitheatre. At one point as
garienos wandered off (to take some photos of graves further up the hill) I called to him to stop as I wanted to take some reference shots refering to Mrs Hudson as she walked in the same direction. He was a good 200 yards away and I didn't even have to shout. In those conditions Sherlock could certainly have heard exactly what John was saying by the grave so long as the Good Doctor was speaking clearly. The photo I want to share with you is this one following. It's a nice panoramic of the grave site (by the big pine tree on the left) and the hiding site (the clump of bushes centre right by that strange triangular grave stone). Too big to post but you can click on this link.
