Seeing Stonehenge is an impossible experience. I had visited the United Kingdom in 1973, taking pictures with a Kodak 110 pocket camera. Those pictures are lost to me now, but on my last trip to London, My wife and I made a point of going to Salisbury. We left early in the morning to avoid traffic and made it to the site at about 8 am local, only to find it was closed until 9 am…. it’s in the middle of the Salisbury plain, out in the open… how can it be closed? I thought this, but didn’t utter the words; I worry about becoming the ugly American when traveling abroad.
This gave us a chance to wander down to the township of Salisbury and get a proper breakfast and in turn, discovered Salisbury Cathedral, which is a whole story in and of itself.
Finally, we got into the site, just as an overcast sky moved in. But thank God for that. A clear sky would have been anti-climatic and make for your typical tourist photo. Now patience turned to be a virtue, as I waited for the right moment to get the shot. That moment being, when the least amount of fellow travelers were in my viewfinder. There was a couple, along with a maintenance vehicle, which I edited out, but I love this photo and hope you do the same.
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