Sunkenkirk 7
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Sunkenkirk

Am I seeing things?

StoneLifter S
StoneLifter Oct 7, 2005 22:02:24
Replying to FourWinds

No, it was my introduction to real photography - a German lens that was dropping to pieces and a 1973 SLR camera stuck on 1/60th sec. (There's so many stones in Bolton that could potentially have carved marks of some kind).

I've got a film coming back from the developers tomorrow. When I did my one day survey of the cairns in Knarsdale, I took a vintage camera and a modern automatic thing, for backup. It's these backup photographs that are coming back. Should have a couple of shots of a dead buzzard in a Ladder Trap, as well as a couple of carved stones - perhaps - on top of the Broad Mea long cairn.

H Hob
Hob Oct 8, 2005 23:35:10
Replying to StoneLifter

One must be careful when photographing non-sedimentary rock art. Some of these monuments have psych-retractable RA. These are that subset of markings which only appear when certain unknown conditions are met*. Even then, it can only be observed by those whom it wishes to be seen by.

This is why the carvings don't like being photographed, photos leave them with no control over who sees what. And one must be careful, because these stones have devised cunning silico-cognisant techinques which produce pulses of causality-rending piezo-electricity. The overall result causes the would-be photographer to be forever unable to convince the rest of the world that the carvings are anything other than his overactive imagination ;)

*A characteristic also shared, though to a lesser extent, by many markings found on sedimentary rock.

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