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I worked hard to find a location and point of view to capture the Ring of Brodgar how it was in my mind's eye, I shot with camera at different heights above the ground, different angles with the horizon high, low and centred and with different foreground elements. It wasn't until I met up with a friend later at home and he showed me an image of his in wide format that I thought to simply crop one of my shots which I think works quite well. Thanks Colin.
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A shot of the Milky Way over the Neolithic Stone Circle at the Avebury World Heritage Site in Wiltshire. It was another opportunity to try and improve and experiment with the astro photography genre. This is a 6 shot vertical pano. Canon EOS 6D, Tamron 15-30mm f2.8 Di VC USD - ISO1600/f2.8/30secs
Prehistoric rock art in one of the recesses of Cairn T at Loughcrew, Co.Meath. The public are advised not to 'chalk' the engravings which can cause unnecessary wear to the five thousand year old art. The advice appears to have been ignored in this particular example.
The Coldrun Long Barrow, also know as the Coldrun Stones and the Adscombe Stones, is a chambered long barrow located near the village of Trottiscliffe in the south-eastern English county of Kent. Probably constructed in the fouth millenium BCE, during Britains Early Neolithic period, today it survives only in a state of ruin.
This is a B&W photo of the shadow my left hand being cast on an acrylic abstract painting. An image of a silhouetted hand is a kind of iconic symbol of the human presence. Similar representations were made 40,000 years ago in Neolithic caves located in what is now Europe.
Dolmen de Mas Bou-Serenys
Cristina d'Aro, Girona, Espagne
A naturally dolmenic area - proto dolmens and monolithic protrusions punctuate the hillsides that sit behind the coastline. A charming, large dolmen with a housing estate built up to one of its dramatic range of outreaching corridors. The cap stone is held high by menhir-esque orthostates, one of which certainly seems to have the signs of having been used as a polissoir or grindstone. A geofact? A grindstone lifted up from the ground and employed as part of a megalith? The only other possibility seems ridiculous but should at least be presented :
The repeated back and forth polishing gesture may have been accelerated by adding weight to the tool that is undergoing polishing. The added weight and force comes by attaching the tool to the end of a heavy log; suspending the log on ropes that have been tightened to a frame that is wedged into the unusually large dolmen interior. The end of the log would have to be a 'cup' that contained moist clay to attach the tool by suction coupled with a strap covering the end of the tool that is waiting to take its turn. I shall try and set up an example and will post only if the tool holds in place and polish angles seem to be valid.
AJ 23.09.17
This is a megalithic enclosure, a late Neolithic or early Bronze Age ceremonial site on Bodmin Moor. It's called 'King Arthur's Hall' because the legendary king may have frequented it. Covering an area of 47 metres by 20, 56 standing stones are still visible (there may once have been 140). They were erected against steep rectangular banks. Because of these banks and the tall grasses it isn't easy to get a good shot of the stones. Rough Tor can be seen in the distance.
Dolmen de les Vinyes Mortes 2
Around 5,500 ybp
The table is missing on this megalithic centre piece to a 11m wide tumuli. Thin and strong slabs of metamorphic gneiss make up the impressive orthostates which hold over a large interior space of around 2.5 x 3.5m.
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Five Neolithic Houses furnished with replica Neolithic axes, pottery and other artefacts, reveal the type of homes that the builders of the ancient monument might have lived in four and half thousand years ago.
Stonehenge, Wiltshire, UK
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The surviving stones are sited on a promontory at the south bank of the stream that joins the southern ends of the sea loch Loch of Stenness and the freshwater Loch of Harray. The name, which is pronounced stane-is in Orcadian dialect, comes from Old Norse meaning stone headland. The stream is now bridged, but at one time was crossed by a stepping stone causeway, and the Ring of Brodgar lies about 1.2 km (0.75 mi) away to the north-west, across the stream and near the tip of the isthmus formed between the two lochs. Maeshowe chambered cairn is about 1.2 km (0.75 mi) to the east of the Standing Stones of Stenness and several other Neolithic monuments also lie in the vicinity, suggesting that this area had particular importance.
The Stenness Watch Stone stands outside the circle, next to the modern bridge leading to the Ring of Brodgar
Although the site today lacks the encircling ditch and bank, excavation has shown that this used to be a henge monument, possibly the oldest in the British Isles. The stones are thin slabs, approximately 300 mm (12 in) thick with sharply angled tops. Four, up to about 5 m (16 ft) high, were originally elements of a stone circle of up to 12 stones, laid out in an ellipse about 32 m (105 ft) diameter on a levelled platform of 44 m (144 ft) diameter surrounded by a ditch. The ditch is cut into rock by as much as 2 m (6.6 ft) and is 7 m (23 ft) wide, surrounded by an earth bank, with a single entrance causeway on the north side. The entrance faces towards the Neolithic Barnhouse Settlement which has been found adjacent to the Loch of Harray. The Watch Stone stands outside the circle to the north-west and is 5.6 m (18 ft) high. Once there were at least two stones there, as in the 1930s the stump of a second stone was found. Other smaller stones include a square stone setting in the centre of the circle platform where cremated bone, charcoal and pottery were found. This is referred to as a "hearth", similar to the one found at Barnhouse. Animal bones were found in the ditch. The pottery links the monument to Skara Brae and Maeshowe. Based on radiocarbon dating, it is thought that work on the site had begun by 3100 BC
Butser Ancient Farm '18
Original house in Llandygai, Bangor, North Wales, c. 4000 BC
Reconstructed 2014
Painting based on wall painting from Çatalhöyük in Turkey
Neolithic passage tomb, built about 5000 years ago. The door is aligned to the SE, to catch the dawn rays at the winter solstice and illuminate the interior. There's a lottery by the Office of Public Works to be inside the tomb on solstice.
One single long exposure. No photoedition : straight out of the camera except for contrast/crop.
Lights: me
Light painting session with Tribal Lotta, Martin GERARD & Vincent Gerber
The Hurlers is a group of three stone circles. The name "Hurlers" derives from a legend, in which men were playing Cornish hurling on a Sunday and were magically transformed into stones as punishment. The "Pipers" are supposed to be the figures of two men who played tunes on a Sunday and suffered the same fate.
L'allée couverte de Lesconil dite Ty-ar-c'horriquet qui signifie "la maison des korrigans" dans la commune de Poullan-sur-Mer.
Cette allée couverte, qui fait une longueur de 12 m et une largeur de 2 m, est qualifiée de "rare et curieux" par Paul du Châtellier qui fut un préhistorien du Finistère. Il s'agit d'une allée couverte "arc-boutée", datant de la fin du néolithique, entre 3500 et 2000 ans avant J.-C. Elle est classée monument historique par arrêté du 18 mars 1922.
The Gallery Grave of Lesconil in the commune of Poullan-sur-Mer, which is 12 m long and 2 m wide, is described as "rare and curious" by Paul du Châtellier who was a well-respected Breton prehistorian. This "arc-boutée" gallery grave, where the uprights lean inwards at an angle of 45°, making capstones unnecessary dates from the end of the neolithic period, between 3500 and 2000 years B.C. It was classified as a historic monument on March 18, 1922.
These dwellings are situated just outside the Stonehenge visitor and exhibition centre, and are surprisingly bright and airy spaces consisting of a single room measuring five metres on each side with white chalk walls and floors designed to reflect sunlight and capture the heat from the fire. When fires are lit, the smoke from the hearth filters up through a thatched roof – knotted or tied straw carefully secured onto a hazel woven frame. Around the walls stands wooden or woven furniture – beds, seating, storage and shelving.
The Neolithic Houses help to reconnect the ancient stones with the people that lived and worked in the Stonehenge landscape. Visitors can step through the door of these houses and get a real sense of what everyday life might have been like when Stonehenge was built.
The recreated houses are closely based on the remains of Neolithic houses discovered during excavations in 2006 and 2007 at Durrington Walls, a large ceremonial earthwork enclosure, just 1.7 km to the north-east of Stonehenge. Radiocarbon dating showed that these buildings were built at around the same time as the large sarsen stones were being put up at Stonehenge, in approximately 2,500 BC.
The houses have been built by a 60 strong team of English Heritage volunteers – under the guidance of experienced staff from the Ancient Technology Centre - using authentic local materials: weaving hundreds of hazel rods through the main supporting stakes, thatching the roofs with wheat-straw, and covering the walls with a daub of chalk, hay and water. In total over 20 tonnes of chalk were used as well as 5,000 rods of hazel and three tonnes of wheat straw.
The first phase of the Neolithic Houses project took place in spring 2013, when three prototype houses were built at Old Sarum over nine weeks. This enabled the project team to test ideas about the materials and methods used in constructing the houses. It also resulted in a core of trained volunteers who along with new recruits went on to build the houses at the new visitor centre. Many of those who have been involved in the build, are going on to work in the houses as education and interpretation volunteers, to help bring the past to life for visitors.
www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/stonehenge/thing...
A cross from the table of the dolmen du Puig del Fornas, Saint-Michel-de-Llotes in the French Pyrénées-Orientales.
May be from around 6,000 ybp
For the image, I dropped some of the saturation of the surface rock to emphasize the man made form.
Whilst this cross is isolated, others on nearby tables are joined into chains or linked by small canals or 'rigoles'..
If a dolmen marks the 'landing' of a clan into sedentary activity, then spiritual and cultural problems may arise when the initial micro village of one clan, coagulates with additional clans (see Cambous). Friendly clans, clans with family links or clans that also specialize in a geographical zone, getting together to scale up their increasingly specialist skills and in so doing creating smaller villages than the initial homesteads. New arrivals may not 'own' the meaning of the dolmen and yet they share the village. When you look at the cross, you see that it is made of four or five cups linked by two canals. If a single cup is a clan, and there has been a grouping, then this image may simply show that, despite being from one clan's history, the dolmen is for all. This linked solidarity would afford benefits of social cohesion. Whilst one clan may 'land' it's dolmen, few dolmens can have been made without outside help. Having outside clans join for the creation of a dolmen may also impact on the interpretation of a neolithic cross. For the sake of hypothesis, imagine that the lower left cup represents a clan that remembered with a few seeds, how they helped build the dolmen, but refused to join the expanding sedentary site for quite innocent reasons. The top right cup may be from a small clan that has no dolmen but wanted to 'land' and join the group. They too may add a few grains to their small cup from time to time and water may mix and move on. Seen in this way, the cross can be a single item or linked to other cups or crosses. This contrasts with a hermetic symbol such as a christian cross which can be ornamented, but can only keep to a strict form.
A sign for cooperation and solidarity is in many ways a sign of peace. Whilst we see it here in stone, it is perhaps safe to say that similar forms were painted onto leather, traced in clay or fingered into sand.
AJM 30.06.17
Blue hour shooting at the Kongresshalle (congress hall), now Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) – "House of the World's Cultures" – with Sabine.R. The congress hall was the USA's contribution to the Interbau 1957 International Building Exhibition in (West-)Berlin's borough of Tiergarten. It was designed by architect Hugh Stubbins. John F. Kennedy spoke at the congress hall during his visit to West-Berlin in 1963. In 1980 the roof collapsed; one person was killed, several were injured. Between 1984 and 1987 it was rebuilt and re-opened in 1987 for Berlin's 750th anniversary. Since 1989 it houses the aforementioned HKW – presenting art exhibitions, dance and theatre performances, readings, cinema shows, and conferences on visual arts. The building of the congress hall is one of Berlin's architectural landmarks.
My first night / blue hour shooting in a long while (but definitely not my last!). Not perfect (the photo), I know, but it was great fun. It was a windy day, and we were lucky that we found a rather calm spot for our captures of the congress hall.
I took captures both with my OM-D and the 17mm prime lens, and the Lumix LX100; I will upload one or two captures taken with the Lumix as well, stay tuned ;-)
Neolithische Kindheit
Blaue Stunde mit Sabine.R an der Berliner Kongresshalle. Wir mussten lange auf's Blau und die Beleuchtung warten, hatten aber zum Glück ein relativ windstilles Plätzchen hier am Teich an der Rückseite der "schwangeren Auster" gefunden.
Erbaut für die Internationale Bauausstellung 1957 im Berliner Bezirk Tiergarten. Die Kongresshalle war ein Beitrag der USA (Architekt: Hugh Stubbins) zur Interbau. 1963 sprach hier John F. Kennedy während seines Besuchs West-Berlins. 1980 stürzte das Dach ein, ein Mensch würde dabei getötet, viele verletzt. Die Kongresshalle wurde von 1984 bis 1987 originalgetreu wiederaufgebaut und '87 zur 750-Jahr-Feier Berlins wiedereröffnet. Seit 1989 beherbergt dieses Berliner Wahrzeichen das Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HWK).
Ich hatte hier sowohl meine OM-D mit dem m.zuiko 17mm f1.8 (dieses Foto) als auch meine kleine Lumix (Fotos folgen) im Einsatz. Es war ein toller Tag und mein erstes (aber nicht letztes!) Nacht-/Blaue-Stunde-Shooting seit Langem.
The Neolithic Standing Stones of Stennes at blue hour just before sunrise. Nice and quiet at this time of day with only the sound of geese flying overhead and a chill in the the breeze.
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The Drina is a river in the Balkan Peninsula. It is a 346 kilometer (215 mi)-long tributary of the Sava River, and it forms most of the border between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia. Its name is derived from the Latin name of the river, Drinus.
The Drina is a very fast river with cold and greenish water, which is from the limestone which constitutes a major part of the area in which the river carved its bed.
The largest impact the river has had in culture probably is the novel "Na Drini ćuprija" (The Bridge on the Drina) by the Yugoslav Nobel Prize for literature laureate, Ivo Andrić; the book is about the building of a bridge near Višegrad by the Ottomans in the 16th century.
The Balkans is the historical name of a geographic region of southeastern Europe. The region takes its name from the Balkan Mountains, which run through the centre of Bulgaria into eastern Serbia. The region has a combined area of 550,000 km2 (212,000 sq mi) and a population of about 55 million people.
The ancient Greek name for the Balkan Peninsula was “the Peninsula of Haemus” (Χερσόνησος του Αίμου, Chersónisos tou Aímou).
The Balkans are adjoined by water on three sides: the Black Sea to the east and branches of the Mediterranean Sea to the south and west (including the Adriatic, Ionian, Aegean and Marmara seas).
The identity of the Balkans is dominated by its geographical position; historically the area was known as a crossroads of various cultures. It has been a juncture between the Latin and Greek bodies of the Roman Empire, the destination of a massive influx of pagan Slavs, an area where Orthodox and Catholic Christianity met, as well as the meeting point between Islam and Christianity.
The Balkans today is a very diverse ethno-linguistic region, being home to multiple Slavic, Romance, and Turkic languages, as well as Greek, Albanian, and others. Through its history many other ethnic groups with their own languages lived in the area, among them Thracians, Illyrians, Romans, Uzes, Pechenegs, Cumans, Avars, Celts, Germans, and various Germanic tribes.
The Balkan region was the first area of Europe to experience the arrival of farming cultures in the Neolithic era. The practices of growing grain and raising livestock arrived in the Balkans from the Fertile Crescent by way of Anatolia, and spread west and north into Pannonia and Central Europe.
In pre-classical and classical antiquity, this region was home to Greek city-states, Illyrians, Paeonians, Thracians, Epirotes, Mollosians, Thessalians, Dacians and other ancient groups. Later the Roman Empire conquered most of the region and spread Roman culture and the Latin language but significant parts still remained under classical Greek influence. During the Middle Ages, the Balkans became the stage for a series of wars between the Byzantine, Bulgarian and Serbian Empires.
The light streams into the passage tomb through this roof box on the Winter Solstice, illuminating the interior of the monument.
On the recommendation of our B&B Host, we switched up our plans for the day to visit Skara Brae first, before buses with crowds from a recently docked cruise ship arrived at the site - good call.
As it was it proved difficult to get an image representative of the site without tourists in red or yellow rain jackets.