[Stones] Avebury 'heads'

[David Mitchell]

On Sun, 6 Aug 2006, Ric wrote:

> nice - direct sunlight would help highlight the stones

Yes - it happens that sunlight is essential in emphasising the
profiles, so is the direction of illumination, as Terence
Meaden has pointed out.

Some of the heads are barely visible in photographs taken at the
wrong time of day, or when the sky is overcast.

David





> Thelma Wilcox <thelmawilcox at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>    Here is a couple of photos of  the "stone faces" Terence Meaden was showing us.
>  http://www.flickr.com/photos/13791964@N00/
>
> Chris Tweed <chris at henge.org.uk> wrote:
>  I know I made a post a while back explaining why I wouldn't be able
> to make the meet at Avebury yesterday. I've just uploaded the first
> few images from my Dad's day driving Jags and Aston Martins around
> Mallory Park. It was a great day, he loved every moment. I had a bit
> of a scare when one of my SanDisk memory cards corrupted whilst
> trying to download the images to my computer. Fortunately I managed
> to recover about 80% of the photos from it.
>
> The photo set can be found here :-
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/ctweed/sets/72157594225332863/
>
> More to follow I guess. Nothing artistic - just a record of the day.
>
> Hope to see some pics from Avebury yesterday (but again, please post
> a link rather than sending the actual photos to the list please!)
>
>
> Chris
>
>
> -- 
> Chris Tweed
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