The Limbo Connection's photos with the keyword: Red Lion

When by chance I met this Italian visitor outside the 'Red Lion' in Avebury, she was on holiday from her home in Ireland. She was enjoying a glass of real ale and preparing a cigarette. Telling me about her day out, she opined that the Avebury landscape had its limitations. She said, 'You walked a bit, and saw a pile of stones. You walked a bit more and there would be another pile of stones'. Never before had I heard Avebury Circle described as 'a pile of stones' but she had a point, and she certainly expressed it amusingly. In days of yore the locals broke up the stones to make building materials, and so they didn't overdo the reverence and awe. They probably just said, 'here be a handy pile of old stones'. Photographed using a Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 AF-D lens on a Nikon D2Xs. Cropped and converted to black and white.

Posted eight years to the day since briefly making the acquaintance of these co-operative ladies enjoying refreshment and a smoke outside the Red Lion at Avebury. A lot of water under the bridge since that day. I converted the photograph to black and white after cropping and sharpening it up a bit. It didn't need much post processing, being taken with the Nikon D2Xs at 100 ISO, a setting where it reigns supreme (I wish I remembered this fact more often). Shot at f/7 using a 50mm f/1.4 lens with a shutter speed of 1/200th.

Avebury, Wilts. Nikon D700 and Tamron 70-210mm f/2.8 LD SP lens.

Avebury, Wiltshire.

Seen in the car park of the Red Lion at Avebury.

Nikon D2Xs + Tamron 17-50mm f/2.8 lens.

This pre-dates digital and is a copy of a print from the 1990s. The location is the Red Lion at Avebury.

Nikon D700 + Nikon 75-150mm f/3.5 series E zoom lens.

Nikon D2Xs + Nikon Series E 75-150mm f/3.5 lens on a TC-16A teleconverter.