Vector illustration, 2015, after Beckensall 2004.
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Scan of the motifs carved on the flat lid of a soapstone box.
Based on Stan the Man’s interpretation.
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Side lighting at night with a handheld torch on a long exposure shot.
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Long exposure at night, side lit by a hand-held torch.
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I love that sign.
The ridges of Simonside in the background.
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Had a visit at night to try to pick out some of the carvings on this unruly and gnarly lump of carvedness.
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Mucking about at night with an off-camera flash.
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Carvings are still there. Checked them yesterday (24/03/14) on the way to Ketley.
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Taken from “The Illustrated Guide to Old Sarum and Stonehenge with engravings”, 1886.
Courtesy of The British Library.
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Between stones 21 and 22. Taken from “Stonehenge: plans, descriptions and theories” by Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie, 1880.
Courtesy of the British Library.
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Taken from “Our own country. Descriptive, historical, pictorial.” 1885.
Courtesy of the British Library.
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Some experimental faffing about with LEDs. I’m still not sure exactly what is the best way to mix this kind of light painting with rock art.
Straight out of the camera, no post processing other than to resize.
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Mucking about with long exposures and handheld lights to try and pick out the motifs.
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Late night/early morning doing some long exposure stuff with sidelighting to try and bring out the carvings.
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I’ve debated if it’s a good idea to put this photo here, but have decided it must be done. It’s under tma’s ‘artistic/interpretative’ section, as it is a photo of a modern carving in the CnR style.
In case anyone finds this new CnR motif carved on the outcrops at Blawearie, just across from Old Bewick, please don’t mistake it for the real deal. It’s a modern carving, created in 2012 to act as a memorial for the mighty Jan Brouwer (rockartuk), creator of the now sadly unavailable British Rock Art Collection online database.
Apologies to the rocks, the archaeological record and all, but Jan contributed a heck of a lot of time and effort to the study of these carvings, and it seems fitting he should be accorded this tribute.
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This stone carved in memoriam for a very good bloke, who participated in the excavation of the cairn, and who is the only person I’ve met who had a CnR tattoo. He passed away suddenly, and this stone now resides in his family’s garden in Heaton.
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Cain on top of Cartington Hill.
Posted in situ via fancy phone.
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Looking roughly SSW from the trig point built into the cairn.
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Cow pat has bleached a patch in the middle of the main motif.
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This is the rock outcrop next to the cairn. I would bet a chocolate croissant that it has been inhabited since the mesolithic and is crucial to the placement of the cairn and perhaps to the carvings at Old Bewick.
It is a very special place.
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In the words of a song by Dreadzone: “In the cave, we must be careful not to offend the gods...“.
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View looking up towards the cairn on top of Cateran Hill, and over to Bewick Moor.
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The usual shot of Ketley, this time sunset in winter, just after the snow melted. I wish I’d been able to get there when it was a foot deep.
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This is a photograph straight from the camera. No photoshopping or anything. Just a lot of faffing about with flash units and stencils and lens caps. Unfortunately there aren’t actually any ghostly light sculptures of prehistoric CnRs in my kitchen.
(Though there is a modern CnR sealed behind the kitchen wall units to the left of the image)
A higher res version can be found here
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Light Art Performance Photography (a.k.a. ‘Waving torches at things’) at Castlerigg on the evening of 13/08/09.
And before anyone starts wondering why it’s not in the ‘Artistic/interpretive’ category of image here on TMA, that’s because it’s a photograph. Nothing has been added in by editing software, just a bit of colour tweaking during conversion from RAW format.
More examples of the same kind of thing at some other sites can be seen at flickr.com/photos/hobsonish/collections/72157621878294009
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Light Art Performance Photography (a.k.a. ‘Waving torches at things’) at Castlerigg on the evening of 13/08/09.
And before anyone starts wondering why it’s not in the ‘Artistic/interpretive’ category of image here on TMA, that’s because it’s a photograph. Nothing has been added in by editing software, just a bit of colour tweaking during conversion from RAW format.
More examples of the same kind of thing at some other sites can be seen at flickr.com/photos/hobsonish/collections/72157621878294009
Image credit: IH
5th Aug 2009. Straight from the RAW, slightly cropped, nothing added in Photoshop.
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Weetwood 6, upper and lower motifs. 30/05/09.
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Weetwood 6, in the trees, upper motif.
30th May 09.
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Colour cycling LEDs, straight out of the camera.
Similar stuff using different lighting methods is here:
flickr.com/photos/hobsonish/sets/72157622002774670
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Note what has been described as a ‘mutilated’ central cup. I think the carver was worried about falling off the cliff and was wobbling a bit.
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Big motif on the edge of the precipitous drop. Note the powerlines overhead. Very useful for finding the carvings when ascending from the Via Plana.
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Camera-onna-stick view of the main whaleback
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