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1speed Oct 8, 2006 19:58:26
Replying to moey

moey wrote:
I knew I should have gone back :o(

Nice Pics.

moey

Cheers, moey.

But I'm sure there'll be loads of better pics out there, taken by proper photographers using tripods an' stuff and then Photoshopped to perfection for your viewing pleasure. ;-)

Mine are really just snaps, but at least they're a record of something special which I'll remember for a long time - I just hope I can get back next time too.

G geniet
geniet Oct 11, 2006 17:46:19
Replying to 1speed

Hello speed,

Thanks for these pictures. I was not at Callanish I, I wanted to be alone and thus went to Calanais III:
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/user/7560/weblog/0/51855

So I missed the event at Calanais I (thus even no picture made). But thanks for sharing these, I am in someway jealous with you!

While being at Calanais III, I could hear the bagpipes (they are even on my videos of the event made at CalanaisIII...). I heard them twice, one at sunset and the second time, can you tell me what the event was why they were played? Was it the last moon betwene the stones to be seen from the end of the avenue or was it the real setting of the moon (so in the Clisham Valley, visible when you go some 50 meters to the west of the avenue, or stand on the round outcrop).

Hope you can recollect the bag pipes;-) I am trying to sequence things;-)

All the best,


Victor

G geniet
geniet Oct 12, 2006 08:54:00
Replying to 1speed

Hello 1speed,

I have a question related to your pictures of Calanais I. Do you know the times you took them? Normally the time can be seen as part of the orginal picture taken in the digital camera: EXIF data.
If you have that, it is also important to know the difference between your camera lock and the real clock. Perhaps that needs to be checked also (or you must be sure you synchronize the camera clock everytime with the real time [like from GPS or beeps on radio/TV]).

Perhaps we could e-mail/phone privately about this (don't change the clock settings on the camera in the meantime;-). Let me know. You can find my e-mail address on the top right side of the Calanais website:
http://www.iol.ie/~geniet/callanish

All the best,


Victor