Pentre Ifan Burial Chamber – Fishguard

Just a quick post of some photos I took down in Pembrokeshire. The first is of a neolithic burial chamber dating from around 3500 BC. You can see some info on the burial chamber, including an artist’s impression of what it would have looked like here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentre_Ifan. Its very isolated, and quite creepy to stand inside, though that might have something to do with 16 ton of stone over your head and when you see how little of the other stones are touching it, you really wonder how its stood for so long. I did my usual Photoshop thing to improve the quality, altered the brightness and contrast on the foreground and sky separately, hopefully I wasn’t too slap dash with it. In fact whilst I was doing it, I was wishing my little Leica C-Lux2 was capable of bracketing (though i haven’t actually properly checked whether it can or not) so I could do some HDR photography. I recomend checking out Jared Earle’s brilliant tutorial on HDR photography here http://blog.23x.net/7/beginners-guide-to-hdr.html to see what I’m on about.  The other two photos are taken down in Fishguard, I’m not sure how well they work but not bad given the fading light though. They are also improved with photoshop’s auto-level function, lazy but like I say, just a quick post this one! .

Pentre Ifan Burial Chamber

Fishguard

Fishguard - "Lines"

~ by Jorvic on March 4, 2009.