The Great Stone of Fourstones

The Great Stone of Fourstones

As legend has it, the Great Stone of Fourstones was dropped by the devil whilst on his way to build Devil's Bridge (Nr Kirky Lonsdale). It sits on the Lancashire/Yorkshire boundary. Some of the graffiti dates back to 1600. Some enterprising souls have carved steps up its side. I caught this rather folrlorn snowman sleeping whilst on watch back in 1990.
Location
Nr. Bentham. N. Yorks
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Olympus OM2n, 50mm
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Don't rightly remember
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HP5 in LC39
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Ilford MGIV RC in Multigrade Dev.
the tracks on the steps look like he climbed down them and needed a rest where he sits ...
 
Yeah , he looks a bit tiered ...

This is also nice for it's unusualaty :smile: nice to se a touch of man in what seem to be an isolated place.
 
Quite a surreal look to this. Like it

Bill
 
Great and fun combination of subjects, well seen and captured!
 
Surreal That's the word for it. The best surrealism always looks normal until you look closer. A lone snowman survives where there is practically no other snow and is massive in relation to the rock which has steps in it but is in the middle of nowhere?

This one starts a conversation which rapidly becomes a court of inquiry. Is it real or a film set? I love it.

pentaxuser

pentaxuser
 
I enjoy the humor and somewhat ancient feel of this. A statement can be said that all artifacts even stone artifacts are temporary and only significant in a very small window of temporal experience.
 

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