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Nobody seems really sure just how old Stonehenge is but what you can see here on this photo is somewhere between 4,000 and 5,000 years old.
It's an incredible place and the size of the stones immense....the largest stones weigh around 50 tonnes and would have been dragged by hand from an area 25 miles away.
Like what you see here and are interested in photographic composition?.....the blog section of my website now has a complete set of 5 articles covering my personal approach to the subject: Ian Bramham Photography - Blog
For purchasing high quality archival prints of any of these photos you can send me an email by clicking here or by going to my website Ian Bramham - Fine Art Photography where prices are listed in the gallery sections under each individual photo.
@Ted: Thanks very much Ted!
@Vincent Bertrand: Thanks Vincent!...I chose the wrong lens really as there's only one place where I needed the full width of this 10-20 lens. For this shot there's actually no perspective correction or cropping of the image even though, as you say, I pointed the camera upward.
Normally I would agree that in these circumstances I would expect to have needed to correct key-stone perspective distortion but on this particular shot it wasn't needed. I think because I was quite a distance away from the stones and the lens was at it's full telephoto end at 20mm. (If you look closely at each of the end stones you'll see that they are actually leaning in slightly instead of being vertical but I didn't bother correcting this small amount of distortion)
There's another view as tomorrow's photo which is a lot nearer than this one and which was taken at 10mm and on that one I had to correct a huge amount of key-stone distortion using the PTLens plug-in.
@Mirko Herzner: Thanks Mirko!....as it happens this was one of my few photos which had people in it - I decided to show this one first as the figures give the stones a sense of scale which is absent on tomorrow's photo which is just of the stones with no people.
There's a pathway around the perimeter of the stones which has a low rope barrier and your not allowed to cross over to actually walk amongst the stones or touch them.
@Kylie Greenan: Thanks Kylie....I was very lucky with the cloudy sky...it was very windy and 1/2 an hour later it started raining.
@Seb!: Thanks very much Seb!
@Ana Lúcia: Thanks very much Ana!
NIKON D40
1/200 second
F/8.0
ISO 200
30 mm (35mm equiv.)
