Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/09/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Shot my last kodachrome at the henge solstice 2009 winter. 5 am. Just a few Druids and I at the car park and in line. Wandered among stones almost alone for an hour. Then the tour busses roared into the dawn Sent from my iPad On Sep 9, 2013, at 4:33 PM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> wrote: > When I was a Boy Scout, our troop from Germany made a Camporee in > Southern > England, and we got to go to Stonehenge. That was probably about > 1960, and > in those days you could wander about the stones. I don't even > recall a > souvenir stand. > > About 1975, I returned for a tourist visit, and things had changed > dramatically. Now there was a parking lot, and a pedestrian tunnel > into the > site. You still could go among the stones. > > I see things are different now. Sad, because I remember to this day > the > awe I felt there as a youngster. > > > On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 5:23 PM, Jay Burleson <leica at jayburleson.com> > wrote: > >> Not quite as dramatic when you are sharing it with a thousand of your >> closest friends... >> I need to visit in February next time. >> >> All with Leica Monochrom, APO-Summicron-M 1:2/50 mm ASPH., iso 320 >> >> Please click on a photo to view it in a larger size. >> >> The Queue >> http://jayburleson.com/leica/**gallery/index.php/England-** >> 2013/Monochrome/L1000900<http://jayburleson.com/leica/gallery/index.php/England-2013/Monochrome/L1000900 >> >> > >> >> Stonehenge I >> http://jayburleson.com/leica/**gallery/index.php/England-** >> 2013/Monochrome/L1000918<http://jayburleson.com/leica/gallery/index.php/England-2013/Monochrome/L1000918 >> >> > >> >> Stonehenge II >> http://jayburleson.com/leica/**gallery/index.php/England-** >> 2013/Monochrome/L1000921<http://jayburleson.com/leica/gallery/index.php/England-2013/Monochrome/L1000921 >> >> > >> >> Stonehenge Detail >> http://jayburleson.com/leica/**gallery/index.php/England-** >> 2013/Monochrome/L1000905<http://jayburleson.com/leica/gallery/index.php/England-2013/Monochrome/L1000905 >> >> > >> >> Walking and not looking >> http://jayburleson.com/leica/**gallery/index.php/England-** >> 2013/Monochrome/L1000915<http://jayburleson.com/leica/gallery/index.php/England-2013/Monochrome/L1000915 >> >> > >> >> Herding the kids >> http://jayburleson.com/leica/**gallery/index.php/England-** >> 2013/Monochrome/L1000930<http://jayburleson.com/leica/gallery/index.php/England-2013/Monochrome/L1000930 >> >> > >> >> Please click on a photo to view it in a larger size. >> >> Thanks for looking and all comments welcome! >> -- >> Jay, >> >> Jay Burleson Gallery <http://jayburleson.com/leica/**gallery/index.php/ >> <http://jayburleson.com/leica/gallery/index.php/> >>> >> "A photographer is simply someone who is >> looking for something that can't be found. >> The photograph is the record of that attempt." >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See >> http://leica-users.org/**mailman/listinfo/lug<http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug >> >> >for more information >> > > > > -- > Regards, > > Sonny > http://sonc.com/look/ > Natchitoches, Louisiana > 1714 > Oldest Permanent Settlement in the Louisiana Purchase > > USA > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information