Doctor Who location spotting!
Sep. 11th, 2011 05:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
llywelaOkay, so last night's episode of Doctor Who was good (aside from an ongoing quibble I shan't get into just now because I am brain dead - someone else has touched on at least a bit of it for me here, although I'm not in tune with everything they say) but I found myself very distracted from the plot every time we had a scene with Amy in the garden because I was too busy going 'ooooh, that's Dyffryn!' to concentrate on what was actually happening. They seem to have filmed quite a significant chunk of the episode at Dyffryn Gardens, just outside Cardiff.
Here's Amy stepping into the garden
And here's the garden she is stepping into (from a reverse angle, unfortunately - alas, I don't have a shot from the same angle; doesn't ever seem to have occurred to me to stand on the terrace and take a shot out across the croquet lawn. If you click for a larger view you'll get a better look at the terrace to compare)
From this angle you get a better look at all the bushes they CGI'd so dramatically
And then we saw Amy (and later Rory) enter a Roman-styled garden
That's Dyffryn's Pompeian Garden
What? Location spotting is fun! And they aren't always quite so obviously recognisable as in this episode!
Here's Amy stepping into the garden
And here's the garden she is stepping into (from a reverse angle, unfortunately - alas, I don't have a shot from the same angle; doesn't ever seem to have occurred to me to stand on the terrace and take a shot out across the croquet lawn. If you click for a larger view you'll get a better look at the terrace to compare)
From this angle you get a better look at all the bushes they CGI'd so dramatically
And then we saw Amy (and later Rory) enter a Roman-styled garden
That's Dyffryn's Pompeian Garden
What? Location spotting is fun! And they aren't always quite so obviously recognisable as in this episode!
