Callanish
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The ancient stone circle at Callanish on the Isle of Lewis in The Outer Hebrides is over 4,000 years old and one of the oldest such structures in the world. Though smaller than Stonehenge it is considerably older and is awe-inspiring to visit. Normally seen in sunshine, here we have a photograph taken beneath an umbrella as a storm passsed overhead giving this magical place an altogether unworldly quality.
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The maginifcent standing stones on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides
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The maginifcent standing stones on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides
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The stones of Callanish I on the Isle of Lewis (off Scotland) are truly breathtaking when viewed for the first time (and the second) ..... This untouched photo is on 35mm film.
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Another view of Callanish, with a small pool of water in the centre. This one I have on my wall, mounted and framed. Callanish I has two other partnering sites II and III set on the moorlands off the road to Stornaway on the Isle of Lewis, outer Hebrides (off Scotland). The weather was quite changeable on this day, cloud one moment bright sun the next. / Taken on 35mm film
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Another view of Callanish, with a small pool of water in the centre. This is the partner photo to the one I have on my wall, both of which are mounted and framed. Callanish I has two other partnering sites II and III set on the moorlands off the road to Stornaway on the Isle of Lewis, outer Hebrides (off Scotland). The weather was quite changeable on this day, cloud one moment bright sun the next. / Taken on 35mm film
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Isle of Lewis / Scotland
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Callanish I, sometimes called the Stonehenge of the North, is on the Isle of Lewis, close to the lovely village fo Stornaway (try their mussels) in the Outer Hebrides (off Scotland). Very dramatic, particularly if you walk up from the carpark and interpretative centre (good teas and soup on the cold days), then as you crest the hill, this mass of upright stones just stuns the eye. Very hard to get the full impact of this wonderful site into a photo, so I have broken the site down into smaller images. This one has a small pool between the stones. Well worth a visit or two – I actually went 3 times in the 5 days I was in Stornaway. There are two otehr Callanish Stone Sites all close to each other, but I only managed to visit one and then fell into a bog!
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Callanish I from the coach carpark. The view is not quite so dramatic as you have time to assimilate the idea that there is a mass of stone standing in the middle of nowwhere. Best side is definitely from the little centre and tea room. To be found just out from Stornaway on the Isle of Lewis (off Scotland)
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As you climb a slight incline from the carpark from the visitors centre and cafe of Callanish, on the Isle of Lewis, cresting the hill is a dense thicket of standing stones. Breathing hard at the sight, I hurried up the last bit to breathe hard from lack of breath, but it was so inspiring that the lack of breath was worth it. Film photo Featured in Shetland and Orkneys Group
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Right place, right time, an unplanned early evening visit to the Callanish Stones, Lewis, Western Isles, Scotland produced one of those memorable moments. September 2008. Featured in Olympus and the Four Thirds group, Feb. 09 / Winner and avatar – New Year, New Avatar Challenge Rainbows group. / February 2009 / Featured in The Scots are Coming – February 2009 / Featured in Scotlands History group November 2008 / Webshots Landmarks creative challenge winner and POTD 3rd December 2008. 965 viewings as of 11/11/09 for 500+ viewings group
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A view of the beautiful and dramatic Callanish I stones on the Isle of Lewis just off the west coast of Scotland. (further details of these stones in previous film uploads) Taken on film 2005
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Image of Callanish 1, changed to black and white and then applied sketch with long strokes, to create an image of a drawing in a free software. Callanish I is one of three sets of standing stones on the Isle of Lewis just off the coast of Scotland.
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This is the dark side of Callanish I, which is on the Lewis Isles of the Hebrides, just off the west coast fof the top of Scotland. / The sun was blotted out for a short while, allowing this moody look. This is untouched – Taken on film 2005 Collaboration with Skyhorse and her poem / A Warning to Wayfarers* Cold and grim are barrow-lands / steeped in mist and night, / hard as steel, those grasping hands / of evil barrow-wight; Out upon the barren moors / their silent vigil keep, / crouched waiting by the barrow doors / to deal you Death’s sweet sleep. Once brave fighting lords / here gave their all in battle, / till overthrown by Saxon hordes / whose bones now shake and rattle; Cut down in battle-lust, / no rest in peace for them, / e’en though bodies now are dust / still they seek for Mortal men - Unwary travellers bind they, / with spells of dark and gloom, / to walk the ancients’ byway / and meet their ghostly Doom
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One of the stone of the main Callanish group on the Isle of Lewis. This has been transformed to black and white and then amended with the tint features film 2005
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Taken on film, this photo has been converted in Sepia. Callanish I is one of three groups of stones on the Isle of Lewis, which is just off the west coast of Scotland. I stayed in Stornaway, which in itself was a great place to explore, with some interesting buildings and scultpures and the most amazing food. Freshly caught mussels in a white cheese sauce I still remember, also the huge scallops. The people living there were lovely too. Well recommend a visit. Featured in Sepia Only Group
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Skyhorse and I were playing around with photoshop and used a film photo of Callanish to add wave and swirl filters. We rather liked the curl of this and decided to keep it.
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Callanish Standing stones using the cyrstal ball effect. No one should doubt the power of stones.
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Trying out different filters in CS3. This is in the render filter and the three light filters, but only two are used
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Another try out with a film photo scanned in of the Callanish Stones – Isle of Lewis. The lights were from the Filter, Render, Omni in CS3 – my imagination of spirit life around the stones.
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Unlike the many circles of stones dotted about the British Isles, these stones at Callanish on the island of Lewis are arranged into four avenues in the form of a cross, with a central cairn where the avenues meet. The stones were erected between 2900 and 2600BC.
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In the Outer Hebrides there is an island called Lewis which has a long history. Somewhere between 2900 and 2600 BC it is said that a set of standing stones was erected. Some of them may have been moved from their original sites and so there is plenty of discussion about their purpose, and who built them. There is a rough circle about 13 m in diameter, with four rows extending out from it. Th northern is the longest and the ones on east, south, and west are shorter. It is on a low hill and extremely difficult to get a good impression of the stones, particularly if the weather is wet as it was on the day we were there. Taken with Pentax LX camera and 28mm Pentax shift lens on Kodachrome film
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‘Sleeping Beauty’, ‘Sleeping Mother’ or ‘Sleeping Goddess’ mountain, as it is variously called, on the island of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides off the west coast of Scotland. This amazing mountain (in Gaelic Cailleach na Mointeach = the Old Woman of the Moors) forms the profile of a sleeping woman when viewed from here – I was standing at the Callanish stone circle. Cailleach About every 18 years the moon appears to rise out of her legs, creep low along her body, silhouetting first one part and then another, hang low over her breasts, and then disappear behind a hillock, only to reappear inside the circle of stones at the foot of the tallest central one and at the head of the burial cairn. This spectacular sight is a blend of astronomy, ritual, landscape. Nikon D70, Nikkor 18-70, 70 mm, 1/50, f/11 / Cropped, tone adjustment, slight sharpening, grey and orange grad filters.
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