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Re: uffington horse and the sun
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thesweetcheat wrote:
[quote="tiompan"] But even from there, if the sun is behind the viewer as ED suggests, the horse is still running generally towards it, not away from it, as the horse is clearly angled so that the head is nearer to the viewer than the tale is. The horse is going to run past the viewer as it heads along the side of the hill, it's not running away from them.



But you know that isn't true , because you know what direction the horse is headed in ,if it were moving .
That is the bottom line it is not heading towards any sunset no matter what the author imagined .
There are countless points where the entire horse is in view and with the observer facing it the sunset will not be to their right . It's just a case of trawling through pics to find examples .The point 51.578610 ,-1.575137 would be a good example there must be pics from that point .
But what does it matter, that when observing a monument the sunset would be to your right or left or straight on or behind you ? Do you really believe that is salient ? What would it imply etc ?


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Posted by tiompan
18th August 2017ce
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