Yep... see what ya mean..... :-)
Jez Cunningham wrote:
> 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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