Saturday 21 June 2014

Happy Summer Solstice



Today is the longest day, the summer solstice.

I took this photo back in the mid 70s, when I parked my car by Stonehenge just off the A303 while travelling between Newquay and West London.

It is a scanned 35ml slide taken with a Russian manual SLR camera. I decided not to clean it up but just leave it as it was when scanned.

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  1. It looks like a motoring article photo from Mayfair!

    Very classy!

    Love the A303! I used to travel down it a lot to visit my girlfriend in Somerset!

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    1. My, and my wife's, family is in Newquay but we live in London and regions so I can drive the a303 in my sleep. For te benefit of American readers the 303 is the Road to the Sun - linking London to the far south west.

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  2. Great picture and, yes; very evocative of the 70s ;)

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    1. You could drive right up to the stones and walk amongst them in those innocent days.

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    1. Definitely, a Spitfire MkIII. In my opinion the marque peaked with the III, the later IVs and Vs had too big and heavy an engine and lacked the cool rounded lines.

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  4. Nice car...pity about that unsightly pile of rocks in the background!...Zenith? I had three, they were good little cameras...

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    1. I dunno, 5,000 years and almost as many administrations and they still haven't cleared up the builders' rubble.

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