Feeling the Past

Avebury Stone Circle. Nikon D2Xs + Nikkor-H Auto 300mm f/4.5 lens.

Some visitors to Avebury Stone Circle physically connect with the stones.

Avebury, Wiltshire. The heir to the marmalade fortune, Alexander Keiller, re-erected stones on the Avebury site during the 1930s. Many visitors are attracted to the mysterious neolithic construction. Nikon D2Xs with a 300mm lens made circa 1971: old, but not as old as the Stones.

Nikon developed a teleconverter for the first generation of its AF film cameras in the mid 1980s after Minolta looked like having the market all to itself. Years later it was discovered that this particular teleconverter inexplicably could be used on the Nikon D2x, a digital camera introduced 20 years later. For a short time I attempted to use these instruments in combination with an old 300mm lens. Had I used a tripod I might have enjoyed greater success.

The votive offerings increase in number. Photographed with a Nikkor 20mm f/3.5 AI-S lens on a Nikon D700 camera.