Image location : St Mildred's Church, Whippingham on the Isle of Wight.

A small medieval church the design of which is a mixture of Romanesque and Early Gothic. The dominating feature from the outside is the tower: square and big, with a row of six blank arches on each side containing thin lancet windows; square corner pinnacles end in spikes.

This is the church used by the Royal Family, including Queen Victoria when she was in residence at Osborne House.

It is named after St Mildred, she was an Anglo-Saxon Princess, who died in 725. Her mother was the Abbess of the Minster in the Isle of Thanet. Mildred having received her religious instruction in France, succeeded her mother as Abbess of Thanet, then later became Abbess of Canterbury.

The image was captured late morning using a tripod-mounted Canon 5DmkII and a Canon TS-E24mm f/3.5L II. This camera has been modified to capture IR (Infrared) light and also block visible light, so the colours captured are not normal. The camera was set to Manual with 1/125th second exposure at f/8, ISO 100 and using Live View focusing at 10x on the front wall. The RAW processing was done in Photoshop CC. The final image adjustments were done in NIK Color Effects Pro.

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