Climbing up on Salisbury Plain

[mikailborg]

I've got a desktop picture of Stonhenge, and it just occured to me... every picture I've ever seen of Stonehenge ("one of the biggest henges in the world") has it backed by a moody gray sky.

Is that the result of photographers looking for the ghostly feel, or is it just that a sunny day over Stonehenge is rarer than Merlin giving interviews on Sky News?

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[eeedge.livejournal.com]

It's the result of photographers looking for a ghostly feel.

When B and I went to Stonehenge with a couple of our friends, we had to go in the early afternoon to pay for our night-time expedition. It was bright, sunny and a little bit anti-climactic.

However, when we got there that night, after full dark (around 9 p.m. and the night after mid-summer), we four were allowed to be there effectively alone (there were guards, but they stayed out of sight until the end, when one came over and showed us how some symbols carved into the stones were only visible with light at a certain angle.). It was absolutely amazing. Three planets visible in a perfect equilateral triangle directly overhead.

But it wasn't foggy or gloomy either time.

Re: henge at night

[mikailborg.livejournal.com]

Wow, I envy you that. Sounds like it was ultra-ultra-cool.

Thanks for clearing up my question!