Feb 18, 2011, 14:43
A local view over the River Severn taken in westering light yesterday.
Uley is the name of the nearest village: it is a very old word, from the Celtic group of languages...this place has been in continual use for 5000 years and the place is heaving with neolithic and bronze age graves.
Uley means "bend" or "elbow", as the land bends in a dog-leg; there's an Old English word "ell"(a yard) that's derived from this word...more notably, there are in Ireland the "uillean pipes", so called, as they're played with the elbow..quite a remarkable thing to have a place-name essentially unchanged for several thousand years...
Anyway, the shot:
50mm f1.4 at f5, ISO 400...I was wrestling with the light this late in the afternoon and keeping handheld; this gave me 1/64s, which I knew would just do; I didn't fancy opening up the diaphragm(oo-er missis) and losing definition or depth of field.
Uley is the name of the nearest village: it is a very old word, from the Celtic group of languages...this place has been in continual use for 5000 years and the place is heaving with neolithic and bronze age graves.
Uley means "bend" or "elbow", as the land bends in a dog-leg; there's an Old English word "ell"(a yard) that's derived from this word...more notably, there are in Ireland the "uillean pipes", so called, as they're played with the elbow..quite a remarkable thing to have a place-name essentially unchanged for several thousand years...
Anyway, the shot:
50mm f1.4 at f5, ISO 400...I was wrestling with the light this late in the afternoon and keeping handheld; this gave me 1/64s, which I knew would just do; I didn't fancy opening up the diaphragm(oo-er missis) and losing definition or depth of field.
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