Casterley Camp, Salisbury Plain

This view across Salisbury Plain from a corn-field was taken from Casterley Camp, the site of an early Iron Age hill fort with several families living there up to and during the Roman period, and archaeological finds there have included Samian ware pottery and coins dating from Claudius to Constantine. It is thought that its use before then reach into pre-history.

Today it is a military training area and permission had to be sought for our geodesic researches here.

Taken with a Pentax ME and a Tokina 20-35mm/f3.5 lens using Kodak Gold 200. Scan by Kodak.

This was the first time I had JPEGs returned on a CD-ROM instead of a floppy disc. The resolution was slightly improved, though still inadequate, but over the next decade I grew accustomed to lifeless, washed-out images with scratches and surface marks (even though they were all created at the time of processing and printing), some rendered unusable. I have found it surprisingly easy to correct many shortcomings during digital post-processing in Photoshop Elements or FastStone, but not to restore the crisp sharpness or level of detail found in the original negatives or even the 6x4 machine prints.