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I have been entering to a new phase in my photography. I am using old vintage lenses on my K1 Mark II Full Frame camera. This is the first image I have decided to post. It takes a bit to figure out how to use these manual lens on a fully automatic camera. What I have found out is that it actually makes you think about what you want the image and then set all the necessary setting accordingly without the help of the camera. I think this will keep my 74 year old brain active and maybe help my senility go into remission...!!!
Pentax K1 Mark II w/ SMS Takumar 35mm f/3.5
This lens was made by Asahi Opt. CO. in Japan from 1966-1971.
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The stone monolithic side remains, with the opposite cob, weave and stone wall and partition-wall fully missing.
A paper on Iberian Iron age saunas:
www.researchgate.net/publication/271081105_Iron_Age_Sauna...
Irish and Scottish sweathouses are also regularly debated into the late ages of prehistory.
Earliest Finish and Estonian Saunas may reach back as far as 9,000 ybp (Wiki)
My research into 'Warm water forms' adds some extra width to the social, practical and epicurean links between man and heat activated water.
www.flickr.com/photos/ajmitchell-prehistory/albums/721577...
AJ
Helsinki, Finland 2024.
Praktica MTL3
Asahi Pentax Super-Multi-Coated Takumar 35mm f3.5
Agfaphoto APX 100 shot at ISO 200
Compard R09 One Shot 1+90 semi-stand development 120min at 18-19°C
Agitation 1min + gently at 45 and 90 min
Helsinki, Finland 2024.
Praktica MTL3
Asahi Pentax Super-Multi-Coated Takumar 35mm f3.5
Agfaphoto APX 100 shot at ISO 400
Compard R09 One Shot 1+90 semi-stand development 120min at 18-19°C
Agitation 1min + gently at 45 and 90 min
The curve of the final rise means that the great Spanish Iron age Castro 'city' of Ulaca would have been difficult to see from below. Contrast this with the open views down onto the plain.
To be able to see without being seen - a natural sense of presiding.
A castro/hill fort where earthworks and walls do not interfere with the view as they are below the main level of occupation.
To live on and between monoliths as a link to sentiments of a deep past and the ancestors who domesticated life during the adjacent ages before metal.
Specialist skills, asset protection; local and inter regional decision making, markets and entertainment, learning and spiritual and epicurean dialogues are all categories suited to the hill top of a local area, and it should not be expected that people lived in the hill top and walked down every day to work the flood plane - even if this may have been closer to the model in times of conflict with Rome. Crofts and small villages should have coexisted below, some lost to the meanders of a river and others lost under the modern urban.
During periods of conflict with Rome, the Castro will inevitably have undergone 'military' adaptations, resembling more a camp than a high market town and spiritual loci. A large rectangular casern 'type' building may be one of these late modifications.
The drama of the drop down from the hilltop is almost hidden by the clarity of the light at the end of the day.
AJ
A Celtic statue that appeared as part of a show that illustrated in detail the contact between the artist Pierre Soullages and the subject of prehistory. The statue is from the last Celtic moments before the Roman invasion - the decades prior to the Gallic wars. It might be argued that there is still a suggestion of lines under the eyes - tattoo or face paint (and I will argue for face-paint in a future post). The detail of the hands is terrific and has a really physical acumen. The hands hold a large ring - notice that the position of the ring is the same as the position for the hunting knife ring that is so present in male statue menhirs and a phase continuum is possible. The statue is not a menhire and stands about 55cm high - and as far as I understand it was found close to the centre in Rodez.
Between the final neolithic and the chalcolithic
5 300 – 4 200 ypb.
Mounhes-Prohencoux. Tarn
This stone is a copy of the original, placed close to where the original broken stone was found. Statue menhirs are so often found alone, here three statue menhirs were found in a lineal cluster. The field of Ardaliès has 9 elements either whole or fragments so there was evidently a flexibility of expression and locality.
Helsinki has a compact and beautiful historic centre known for its neoclassical architecture.
Some of the streets and views around the Senate Square, like this one, have remained pretty much the same since the early 1800s.
Many of the buildings in the area were designed by the German architect Carl Ludvig Engel.
Helsinki, Finland 2024.
Praktica MTL3
Asahi Pentax Super-Multi-Coated Takumar 35mm f3.5
Agfaphoto APX 100 shot at ISO 200
Compard R09 One Shot 1+90 semi-stand development 120min at 18-19°C
Agitation 1min + gently at 45 and 90 min
As with Wiltshire in the UK, Kilmartin Glen in Scotland, and Almendres in Portugal, the small fishing village of Carnac in Brittany's sheltered Bay of Quiberon is a worldwide reference for when people and place gathered in an uncomfortably empty term - 'Prehistory': here active and present between 7000 and 6000 years ago.
There are a number of questions that are carried along the procession of greater Carnac and Morbihan sites like banners of demands:
What were the alignments for, and why were they put here in this specific geography - over 3000 standing stones in around a square kilometre.
Why so many giant cairns (long barrows), and what was their function in their history and culture? The local examples of Saint Michel (125m x 50 x 10m), Gavrinis (pictured in this section) 50m diameter and 7m high, and 'du Ruyk' (across the water from Gavrinis) and 100m x 60 x 15m. And on the second claw to the entrance into the Morbihan bay the 50m diameter Cairn Petit Mont.
Why are there so many long dolmens (allée couverte) and what was their relation to the giant cairns?
Why such similarity, and why the great variety between specific examples?
And, what were the pertroglyphs of Gavrinis representing and communicating? - pictured in this post.
Whilst this short section of posts looks at the smallest glimpse of the greater 'Carnac' area, I will try to answer the questions from the point of view of my research, so issues of 'Transport Dragons' and 'havans' will shock the new and nod the weary. Rushing to 'hold all' explanations that employ causal vague concept simplicities like 'religion', 'burial', 'shaman', and 'violence' will be avoided, even if the infuence of each word does have a measure. All of these markers split page after page of texts on prehistory and the reader is welcome to compare and contrast.
Whilst I have been lucky enough to spend time visiting sites in the UK and other regions of France, most of my research work circles me around the Pyrenees mountains, and most of my ideas come from these regular field trips. Many of my memories of Carnac are from repeat summer weeks as a child in Kerlescan pulling on school plimsoles and playing between the alignment stones with other children from adresses like 'here' and 'there'. These years certainly made me greatly relaxed around megaliths, even if todays dedicated research came from another source.
The reader will judge for themselves, and I hope that the beauty of the original and manicured Neolithic works will stand alone from my modest photography.
AJ
Helsinki, Finland 2024.
Praktica MTL3
Asahi Pentax Super-Multi-Coated Takumar 35mm f3.5
Agfaphoto APX 100 shot at ISO 400
Compard R09 One Shot 1+90 semi-stand development 120min at 18-19°C
Agitation 1min + gently at 45 and 90 min
Found 72 straight kilometers south west of Carceres, so at the outer limit of Vettones territory and close to the Celtici tribal mosaic. From this point the Verracos of Bragance are some 300 straight km away and the heartland of the Verraco - today's city of Avila, is the best part of 200km away. This goes to show that they were a cultural phenomena that existed over a great enough distance for real regional stories and differences to be found. A resistant idea.
105 cm. x 42 cm. x 35 cm
"It was buried in a farm bathed by the Ruecas river, 3 km. west of Madrigalejo. The local chronicles of Madrigalejo say that "in 1945 Uncle Cruz was combing the countryside of La Hocecilla, when by accident he and his two sons unearthed the so-called 'Verraco de Madrigalejo'. Verracos.es
Statue menhir with tinted haute-relief, taken on a grey day with desaturated light and with room for error, but following generally understood themes.
"Cette statue-menhir a été découverte dans un champ en 1978 au cours d'un labour par Moïse Feliu au lieu-dit de Malvielle."
160 cm high, 94 cm wide, 20 cm deep. Sandstone.
- Camera : Praktica PLC 3
- Lens : Asahi SMC - Takumar 35mm f 2.0
- Film : Fomapan 400
- Exposure : f 4.5 or 6.5, february, 2019