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 Post subject: Stonehenge & the Summer Solstice
PostPosted: Thu Jun 21, 2012 6:19 pm  (#1) 
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"Ancient Pagans celebrated Midsummer with bonfires, when couples would leap through the flames, believing their crops would grow as high as the couples were able to jump."

"The sparkling 8-ton bluestone went to the heart and focus of the monument where the rays of the rising sun can fall on it only for a few minutes each year at the time of midsummer solstice."
http://www.stonehenge-avebury.net/stnhngebuild.html

The original picture is at the Stonehenge wiki.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonehedge


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 Post subject: Re: Stonehenge & the Summer Solstice
PostPosted: Thu Jun 21, 2012 6:26 pm  (#2) 
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Not too far south of me either. Closer to me (about 12 miles away) is Avebury - another stone circle. In fact it's more or less a straight line through Avebury and Stonehenge to Glastonbury where I situated my fairy.

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 Post subject: Re: Stonehenge & the Summer Solstice
PostPosted: Thu Jun 21, 2012 6:37 pm  (#3) 
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Sorry Odin, I got absorbed in the subject and forgot to comment on the work. That's a great effect. The greyscale makes the foreground look like ash.


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 Post subject: Re: Stonehenge & the Summer Solstice
PostPosted: Thu Jun 21, 2012 6:48 pm  (#4) 
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"Flame" filter.
http://registry.gimp.org/node/228
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"Black & White" filter with the new "Pseudo-gray dithering".
Lights & Shadows "Contrast swiss mask" and "Dodge and Burn".

At the Stonehenge wiki the URL is "Stonehedge" :)

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 Post subject: Re: Stonehenge & the Summer Solstice
PostPosted: Thu Jun 21, 2012 6:51 pm  (#5) 
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Lovely. That'll go with my fire animator. Thanks.


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 Post subject: Re: Stonehenge & the Summer Solstice
PostPosted: Fri Jun 22, 2012 6:45 am  (#6) 
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That's pretty cool looking Odinbc. :bigthup

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