The Limbo Connection's photos with the keyword: floods

Nikon D2Xs. The camera dates from c. 2005 or 2006; I bought it secondhand in 2011. Over 13 years I've enjoyed using it despite newer more capable instruments having been acquired at intervals, and disposed of later (although I missed the D700 and bought another one when they became cheap enough). I can't speak too highly of the D2Xs. It doesn't perform very well at high ISOs but that particular shortcoming was shared with film-era cameras, and we managed OK then. In everyday use it is really easy to operate.

This was one of those photographs that make you question what it was you saw in the scene to begin with. Idly, I wondered if it could be improved. Cropped and converted to black-and-white it became a much smaller file. Except for that, it is an improvement on the original, but possibly not by much of a margin. Better if you press 'z' perhaps. Nikon D700 + Tamron AF 70-210mm f/2.8 SP lens. A heavy and capable lump of optical history made sometime between 1992 and 2003. I paid £165 for it. A comparable Nikkor would have cost many times more and been just as heavy.

Silbury Hill is a part of the complex of Neolithic monuments around Avebury in Wiltshire (which includes the West Kennet long barrow and the Sanctuary). It was built around 2,600 - 2,400 BC, which is later than the other sites in the area. To design, organise, and construct this mound shows the technical skill of the age and reveals strong and prolonged control over labour and resources. At 129 ft high, Silbury Hill is the tallest prehistoric man-made mound in Europe and one of the largest in the world. There is nothing inside it other than chalk, clay, rubble and soil, and there is no big hole to account for the materials used in construction. It would have taken 500 labourers 15 years to complete. The flattened top is 100ft in diameter. The area immediately surrounding the monument is lower than the level of the land around it. The presence of natural springs indicate a moat or reservoir. In fact, the mound sits in a dip in the landscape; it would have been an unusual choice for a strategic defensive site. Perhaps the site itself was important to the builders.

Silbury Hill is a part of the complex of Neolithic monuments around Avebury in Wiltshire (which includes the West Kennet long barrow and the Sanctuary). It was built around 2,600 - 2,400 BC, which is later than the other sites in the area. To design, organise, and construct this mound shows the technical skill of the age and reveals strong and prolonged control over labour and resources. At 129 ft high, Silbury Hill is the tallest prehistoric man-made mound in Europe and one of the largest in the world. There is nothing inside it other than chalk, clay, rubble and soil, and there is no big hole to account for the materials used in construction. It would have taken 500 labourers 15 years to complete. The flattened top is 100ft in diameter. The area immediately surrounding the monument is lower than the level of the land around it. The presence of natural springs indicate a moat or reservoir. In fact, the mound sits in a dip in the landscape; it would have been an unusual choice for a strategic defensive site. Perhaps the site itself was important to the builders.

AF Nikkor 180mm f/2.8 IF-ED on a Nikon D2Xs.