Thanks. Yes, Swindon is the correct spelling. I have vague memories of quite a few pub crawls around Swindon in the 80s, drinking Wadworth's 6X, which is a very fine local pint but has a tendency to destroy your memory.
Swindon is famous for railways, pigs, and its magic roundabout, which is ironic really, given its proximity to Stonehenge. By a strange historical quirk traffic roundabouts are the direct architectural descendants of Stonehenge. Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Christine Aguila > Sent: 23 June 2008 17:25 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: Stonehenge > > Bob: These are great. I especially like the ones with the > folks dressed up > as Druid priests & priestesses--most especially the older > ladies in their > druid garb. Chicago has a lot of Wiccans; I even got invited > to a Wiccan > Halloween party a hundred years ago, and I'm actually a huge > fan of the > novel Druids, by--can't remember the name of the author. > Very entertaining > novel. My best friend is from England, I believe the Swindon > area (sp?), > and she has always said, like you did in another post, that > Aveberry is much > more interesting. Anyway, great set of pictures. Cheers, Christine > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bob W" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "'Pentax-Discuss Mail List'" <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2008 1:11 PM > Subject: Stonehenge > > > Here are my shots from Stonehenge over the solstice: > > http://www.web-options.com/SH2008/ > > As I said when I posted the Filly Loo shots, I made a number of > technical mistakes, but thanks to Dr. Lightroom's Rescue Remedy I have > managed to recover some of them. In any case, I now know a lot more > about 2nd-curtain slow-sync flash than I did a couple of days ago. > I'll go again next year, and hope to get it right. > > Comments welcome, of course. > > It was an extremely tiring time. I drove to Ashmore from London, > arriving at about 6pm. Things started to kick off at 7pm and went on > until about 10.30. From there I drove to Stonehenge, arriving at about > 11.30pm. I left at about 6am, having been on my feet carrying a heavy > camera bag with food and drink the whole time. It took a few hours to > get back to London, which I really shouldn't have driven - I nearly > nodded off at the wheel several times. When I got home I felt the urge > for a fry-up so I went out to a café, ordered the full monty, and fell > asleep at the table before I finished it! > > Anyway, it's interesting to compare this year's Stonehenge with the > celebrations in gentler times, as shown on the Magnum site: > > http://tinyurl.com/2cn64b > http://www.magnumphotos.com/Archive/C.aspx?VP=XSpecific_MAG.Search01_V > Page > > Bob > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly > above and > follow the directions. > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly > above and follow the directions. > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
