Flytippers!!!

The Long Walk, from Sting's gaff at Wilsford-cum-Lake, to Larkhill, via Stonehenge

Flipping Heck!  (or should that be Tipping Heck!) 

Lazy and inconsiderate builders have dumped a whole load of big (BIG) building blocks, in a field! Scoundrels!

See Police singer and international musician (and once English teacher!) Sting's lovely mansion in the Extras (unedited), then the 2.5 mile walk up through the Normanton Down with its dozens of burial mounds and then, this, to me, probably the best view of Stonehenge and is probably the route that those visitors of all those millennia ago would have seen as they reached the brow of the hill and seen this big OLD pile of rubble...

YES! I have severely foreshortened the perspective by the near 400mm lens (on DX, so about 540mm in 'old' 35mm terms) and literally took dozens, trying to not to have a vehicle of some description in it. (See another Extra, also unedited to see the relationship between the A303 and the ancient landscape it traverses.

YES! I did manage to choose a moment where the two dayGlo yellow security guards weren't in the frame, NOR the dozen or so visitors that were there.

YES! I did have to clone out two small road signs and two white posts that carry the rope to keep pesky tourists away from these ancient blocks. Other than that, I have not removed anything else out, though I did crop the very top of the treeline.

YES! The moving sunlight from through the clouds was on the foreground and not on the Stones, so I have had to add much extra contrast, brightness and a little more sharpness to them. Hopefully it does not look too unnatural and that it just appears that there are two spots of sunshine.

Unfortunately, by 6.30 pm the clouds took over, the winds cold (I had woolly hat but HEY, it's May, I won't need the gloves (you're joking!).

I also wanted to walk this route as the approach on the southern side of the A303 is where the Tunnel is due to be built under. I haven't looked closely at the proposals but of course, there's locally some moaners about it, not least the farmer whose land will be affected.

BUT, like a decent visitor centre, us 'locals' - we never thought that would ever happen - I am truly sceptical about any tunnel ever happening - we do have after all, Brexit, defecit and most probably, yet another Tory government back in, to squeeze squeeze and squeeze even more public spending.