A curious thing happened on a photographic nature walk one wintery morning in March. On Hankley Heath in Surrey, a young lady who shall only be known by her blog moniker The Foraging Photographer, made an unexpected discovery while investigating a new batch of tadpoles.

The makings of a Scottish lodge were rising from the snowy heath, a bustle of workmen masking plywood with authentic-looking stonework. She had fallen upon a set which, as it turned out, will be a crucial location in the plot of the upcoming 007 movie. Film crews have built an entire replica of what seems to be the Bond family estate in Glencoe, complete with chapel and graveyard. Its name: Skyfall.

More elements of the backstory reveal themselves through her photographic coverage, days before the heath is blocked off when principal shooting starts, so head on over to her blog for some great images of frogs, ferns and low-flying helicopters. Spoilers abound in her posts, including why they would rebuild the lodge on a military training ground (but if you know Bond movies, you probably know the answer to that already.)

 

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