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Stonehenge Pictures
These pictures were taken on August 20th, 2004 at Stonehenge, outside Salisbury, England. A bit of background information: We took the train to Salisbury and the bus to Stonehenge on what looked to be a clear, too warm day. As we got out to Stonehenge some nice clouds came in. I had been sad realizing that Stonehenge is a popular attraction and that I wouldn't get any shots without several people in them. Naomi and I paid for our tickets and headed for the tunnel that allows you into Stonehenge when the winds picked up and the heavens opened. In the massive downpour that followed (complete with icy gusting winds) everyone scrambled for the cover of the tunnel. Everyone but yours truly.
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Picture taken through the fence along the main road. Before the rain. |
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Megaliths (great stones) capped with lintels (a stone beam) in the rain.* The rain was so bad I couldn't hear a word from the little historical device they gave me. You know, the type you hold directly up to your ear... |
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The outer ring is made up of rough-cut sarsen, and the inner ring is made up of bluestone (volcanic rock).* |
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The structure is believed to be something of a primative astronomical observitory. A heel stone marks the point where the rises during summer solstice. Some of these stones weighed between 45-40 tons and were taken from a quarry 150 miles away.* |
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As I was walking around Stonehenge, I heard Naomi calling for me to wait. Naomi bought an umbrella in Scotland, but for some reason wasn't using it. As she got closer she held up the wrecked umbrella which had been torn and twisted in the rain. We just had to get a shot of the two of us, drenched, with the broken umbrella. If you look close, you can see that the metal is all twisted. Someone out there is thinking, "Well, you shouldn't have bought a cheap umbrella like that." Upon heading back we saw the torn wreckage of another umbrella, only this was one of those big sturdy ones... |
Kleiner, Fred S. and Mamiya, Christin J. and Tansey, Richard G. Gardener's Art Through the Ages. 11th ed. Fort Worth: Harcourt Inc., 2001.
All other material and pictures copywrite 2004, Jamie K. Cumings.