I went up to Hampstead yesterday with a pair of photographic projects in mind.  The first was to take some High Dynamic Range (HDR) photographs – as Google have just made the Nik Software HDR Efex Pro free! And to see whether Harrow on the Hill is still visible from anywhere on the Heath. It was a famous vista in the days of a more pastoral Hampstead, and lord Leverhume had The Hill Pergola built at the back of Inverforth House so that his guests could rise above the hoi polloi and enjoy the view in the 19th Century.  The heath has become less heathy, and more tree-y since then and, as I’d suspected, there’s only one place to be found.  The evening was made for the saturated HDR technique, and I got a few more shots of the setting sun – and a shot of a kestrel – on my way back down the hill…