Years ago I went to England to try to capture shots of the total eclipse. It was cloudy (in August), so I got no photos of the eclipse … except a couple that looked like it was dark. Well, I guess it was.
But there was side trips driving around and seeing the countryside… and finding many stone circles … many of them unsigned and hanging out just waiting. This one did have a sign, but it didn’t say much.
We’re you possibly out by Avebury at all? I saw a lot of formations that looked like henges – individual standing stones – randomly sticking up in farm pastures… not perfect formations like Stonehenge, but many interesting stone circle type formations. They were all quite close to where Stonehenge is located, in Wiltshire.
Spoiler alert: Avebury pic coming!
(I lost out on the vote to spend more time at Avebury … went to see Stonehenge behind a chain link fence instead)
I think there are more than 1000 of these stone circles in the UK, with most in Scotland, I think. Photographing them in black and white evokes a mystical quality that they where perhaps supposed to communicate when they were actively used.
Thanks, Lynette. It was a mystical place, for sure.
It looks like it belongs there.
It does, doesn’t it?
Thanks for sharing this idea with these stone circle in England. Anita