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I am always on the look out for interesting patterns, colours and textures and during my time on Thursday photographing in and around the Breedon Priory Church Yard I was drawn to an ornate, but very rusty and broken, iron railing surrounding a grave on the edge of the church yard.  This provided a great photographic opportunity which I captured on the X-T1 and 56mm f1.2.  I set the camera to electronic shutter to enable me to use the 56mm at f1.2 to give a shallow depth of field and concentrated the focus on a small part of the frame. Here are some of the results from my short 10 minute photo shoot. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE SUPPORT THIS BLOG BY VISITING THE ADVERTISERS ON THIS PAGE By clicking on the adverts you are helping support this blog - thank you. --------------------------------------------------------------------------...

High on a hill near to Donington Park and East Midlands airport is the church of Breedon Priory, which can be seen for miles around.  With a couple of hours to spare before catching my flight to Edinburgh we decided to visit the churchyard. History Breedon Priory, formerly known as St. Mary and St. Hardulph, is a holy place with an authenticated history of Christian worship for over 1300 years. In A.D. 676 an Anglo-Saxon Monastery was established on the hilltop, by Mercian King Aethelred, and for some 200 years this flourished as a centre of culture and crafts. It was from this building that the remarkable array of Anglo-saxon carved stonework was salvaged, which can be seen in the Church today. But in A.D. 874, the community was attacked by pagan Danish and Norse invaders and buildings looted and despoiled. The next major step came in A.D. 1122 with the arrival of a Prior and five Canons from Nostell Priory in Yorkshire, who established an Augustian Priory on ...