Time Team

I've been re-watching Time Team recently. From its start 21 years ago in 1994. A good part of a life time. They, Tony, Mick, Phil, to name but a few. Victor, the artist, Robin, a proper historian, Ca- what was her name. Mick the Dig. And the geophysics. Wonderful invention. The last programmes, the death of Mick Aston. Very sad; nothing lasts forever.

And yet in all that time the following questions remain wholly unanswered:

What are Stonehenge, and Avebury, and Arbor Low, for? When? As in are the latest developments in Carbon Dating a significant development? The chronology is too thin? Are Silbury Hill and Avebury contemporaneous? Did the Orkney culture up sticks and move to Wiltshire? Carnac Rows? Thousands of big stones all lined up, for kilometres? Why are the Pyramids more or less built at the same time? Were the foreign stones at Stonehenge found or moved to? Why does every museum have a cafe?

Time Team was a joy. Easy evenings with a young family. Simple times. Friendly. Needs a successor.

Black and White

Converting to black and white, monochrome or, to be pedantic, no chrome, or succinct, greys ...

I change the Image Mode to Lab. This is L a b not 'Lab' if you see what I mean; three words. L means Luminance; Light. a and b mean the relative colour. Delete the a and b channels then change the Image Mode to Greyscale.

I then duplicate the background twice and change one to Multiply and the other to Soft Light. I use the latter more often than the former.

And I add a Levels Adjustments Layer to fine tuning working on Lights, Blacks, Mids in that order.

Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway Wartime in the Cotswolds

Cracking weekend at the Gloucester Warwickshire Railway's Wartime in the Cotswolds event. My first visit to this GWR blessed by sunny weather and a very good turnout of re-enactors. Thrilled to see working steam engines, especially the Prairie engine which I had a as model as a boy. Parked at Toddington and hopped my way to Cheltenham Racecourse and back over the course of the afternoon taking photos as I went. More photos here.