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Stonehenge, United Kingdom: Standing at the stones on Salisbury Plain

A June 2004 afternoon at Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain: the sarsen circle, the rope line and a very 2004 polo shirt.

Stonehenge is one of those places you've seen a thousand times before you ever stand in front of it, and it still stops you. The stones sit right out on Salisbury Plain with nothing around them, so the first proper look comes as you walk up the path and the circle just appears against the sky.

Dileep standing on the visitor path in front of the Stonehenge sarsen circle on a bright day, with the rope line and other visitors behind
June 2004, on the path with Asiri behind the camera. The stones do all the work, though the polo shirt is doing its best.

This is one of the oldest photos on the whole site, taken years before any of the long trips began. You keep to the roped path these days, which sounds restrictive until you realise it's what's kept the circle standing while millions of us come to look at it.