If you thought your Polioroid picture was crap, try this camera phone
picture of Stonehenge from the car (travelling on the A303) this summer
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/pvPeDToZIxGAeUm_9V7f9g?authkey=hjEB5lmSj-k
You can see that visitors can only view from a distance...
Jez
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 9:33 PM, Martyn Smoothy <photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> Charlie,
>
> Thanks for the kind words...
>
> Re. Stonehenge. At the time the pics were taken (December 1983, I was
> working on the Stonehenge Environs Survey) unrestricted access to the
> circle was allowed on one day per week (think it was a Tuesday) during
> the winter. Haven't visited the site for a long time but I believe that
> access is normally restricted to a path around the outside of the stone
> circle. Given the number of visitors to the monument it's understandable
> that access needs to be controlled but it's a great pity - it's
> virtually impossible to get a real sense of the place when viewed from
> the path. Until the late 70s the whole site was open to visitors all the
> time, here's a link to a pic I took in 1976 with a Polaroid SX-70 -
> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=5175393 - I realise it's a crap
> photo, it was taken a couple of years before I discovered the OM-1.
>
> Martyn
>
>
> Charles Geilfuss wrote:
> > Very nice webpage Martyn; some beautiful images. Somehow I've missed
> > seeing them before.
> > Regarding the Stonehenge images, can you still walk among them as the
> > people in your images?
> >
> > Charlie
>
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