Stonehenge is amazing, really awe-inspiring, and Avebury its lesser brother, but you can get right up to the stones, walk among them (scamper even!), touch or even hug a stone if the mood so inspires. (Which it did). Why did man, for whom survival must have been such an overpowering instinct, decide to lug huge stones and bury them, upright, in a series of vast circles? How could he see the circular shape? Amazing.
It was a very dull day and I found it hard to find a photo that showed the stones well particularly as they tone in with the countryside. I have cropped this and done all manner of effects to try to enhance it. I liked the little people walking around, to try and give it some scale, and this hopefully shows a little of the enormous circle (which you couldn't see from any one point - the road runs through it and so does the village!)
Thank you so much to everyone so kind to view/comment on yesterday's shot of the circus at Bath... you're all super. Nearly caught up!
you do get a feel for Avebury here
(when I was a child, you could go and climb all over Stonehenge - we used to stop there for a picnic on our way down to my grandparents)
@shannew Ah.. you're showing your age!
Ok I confess - I did too!! I remember being horrified at the graffiti ... so when they fenced it off I was sorry but not surprised. I took the kids a few years ago, you get those mobile-phone-commentary things, so nobody is talking, just walking around looking and listening - all we could hear really was the wind and distant cars. Slightly eerie but very apt!
Isn't it a shame when you can't get that POV that you need to show the subject to advantage. I suspect we're conditioned to images taken from aircraft and helicopters. Great sencse of size in your capture.
Avebury is an amazing place! (When I last visited we arrived in thick fog and the whole circle and town were surrounded in mist - eerie in the extreme!)
You can definitely see the curve of the circle. Lovely shot and whatever you've done post processing is really lovely. I really like the tiny figures walking through. This sort of thing has always fascinated me...why and how did they do it! xx
(when I was a child, you could go and climb all over Stonehenge - we used to stop there for a picnic on our way down to my grandparents)
Ok I confess - I did too!! I remember being horrified at the graffiti ... so when they fenced it off I was sorry but not surprised. I took the kids a few years ago, you get those mobile-phone-commentary things, so nobody is talking, just walking around looking and listening - all we could hear really was the wind and distant cars. Slightly eerie but very apt!