Wedding Photographer Swancar Farm — Nottinghamshire Countryside, the Wildflower Meadow and the Barn Setting
Swancar Farm near Trowell in Nottinghamshire is one of the East Midlands’ most distinctively rural and most naturally beautiful barn wedding venues — a working family farm of exceptional countryside setting in the Erewash valley between Nottingham and the Derbyshire border, whose wildflower meadow, the converted stone barn and the farmland views provide a portrait environment of English arable and pasture of quiet pastoral beauty quite different in character from the polished formality of country house venues. For Swancar Farm wedding photography, the venue’s combination of the wildflower meadow’s summer colours, the natural timber barn interior and the Nottinghamshire countryside’s open farmland provide portrait settings of English rural agricultural character of genuine working-farm authenticity.
The Wildflower Meadow, the Barn Interior and the Farm Tracks
Swancar Farm’s wildflower meadow — the managed wildflower grassland of the farm’s fields, with the seasonal succession of ox-eye daisies, knapweed, meadow cranesbill and field scabious providing a changing colour palette through late spring and summer — provides a portrait setting of English wildflower meadow character that functions particularly well in late June and July when the meadow’s colour is at its richest under soft English summer overcast or golden evening sidelight. The stone barn interior — the natural oak timber frames and the exposed stone walls — provides a ceremony and reception portrait setting of English agricultural converted barn character. The farm tracks and field boundaries of the working farm provide informal countryside portrait routes.
The Erewash Valley, Sherwood Forest and the Nottinghamshire Countryside
The Erewash valley’s surrounding Nottinghamshire countryside — the rolling arable and pasture farmland between the Trent plain and the Derbyshire coalfield plateau, with the medieval church towers of Strelley, Trowell and Cossall visible on the horizon and the landscape’s association with D.H. Lawrence’s Nottinghamshire novels — provides portrait settings of English midland agricultural landscape of considerable pastoral quietness. Sherwood Forest — accessible fifteen miles north, with the Major Oak’s ancient hollow-boled English pedunculate oak and the ancient oak woodland’s veteran tree landscape — provides a forest portrait day-after destination. Wollaton Hall’s Elizabethan prodigy house in Nottingham deer park — twelve miles north-east of the farm — provides an Elizabethan country house portrait alternative.