Alnwick Gardens Fountains, Northumberland

Alnwick Gardens Fountains, Northumberland

When people talk to me about Alnwick gardens I think of two things, the treehouse and the fountains. In my opinion the photograph above shows the simplest and most elegant fountains in the whole gardens. The way that the smaller one in the foreground leads down its thin path to the larger one in the background. As soon as this part of the garden caught my eye I knew it was made for me to photograph. It took about an hour before the children stopped playing around it and people moved from the bench at the back, but it was worth the wait. Although I would like to re-take the photograph one day with the camera about 6 – 12 inches higher, which would give you more of the path connecting the two fountains.

Whirlpool Sculpture, Alnwick Gardens

Whirlpool Sculpture, Alnwick Gardens

There is an area of Alnwick Gardens which has about half a dozen very interesting and unique sculptures based on using and showing water. The one pictured above is probably my favourite to watch and as such was the most difficult to photograph. I am not sure how the whirlpool was created but the water started off low in this large bowl (probably 10 feet across), then kept rising up the sides slowly. Eventually the water came over the sides of the round, chrome container and flowed peacefully down the outside of the sculpture. At this point it hardly looked like water at all and more like a thick gel like liquid turning slowly around the bowl.