Report - Chalk pit - near Braton white horse April 2021

[DaveFM]

I go past this most weeks and always tell myself need to go in one day... in fairness it's on one of my running routes and tricky to stop the running once started. Need to remind myself more forcibly to go in.. I will put a post-it note up on the fridge.

The online history is scarce. The only snippet of information that I have to add is that it is said to be the largest chalk pit in the UK.

No way the biggest chalk pit in UK, certainly not area wise, I don't know about by volume of chalk removed. The big pit east of Bluewater at Dartford is considerably bigger than this quarry.

 

[Bandit1200]

Looked at this a few times. Normally from up on the hill. May be worth a look.

 

[dave]

Great report superbly photographed too very enjoyable shame i live so far away tbh.

 

[Wevsky]

Decent enough report and pictures, do my OCD favour though and straighten your bloody pics

 

[Down and beyond]

Decent enough report and pictures, do my OCD favour though and straighten your bloody pics

you must of been seriously pissed when you wrote this everyone of them photos is either portrait or landscape not one is took at a angle .

 

[Wevsky]

you must of been seriously pissed when you wrote this everyone of them photos is either portrait or landscape not one is took at a angle .

I dont drink, they are in general not straight mate, thus my comment, portrait or landscape is neither here nor there. they just aint straight

for example.. pissed is the term i think we use these days

 

[Down and beyond]

Are you seriously for real ?

 

[DaveFM]

I dont drink, they are in general not straight mate, thus my comment, portrait or landscape is neither here nor there. they just aint straight

for example.. pissed is the term i think we use these days

Thats a perspective effect that you get with any close view, if you look at the door on left thats perfectly straight. Some newer cameras come with a feature to correct this, before digital that required very expensive 'parallax shift' lenses.

 

[Bikin Glynn]

I dont drink, they are in general not straight mate, thus my comment, portrait or landscape is neither here nor there. they just aint straight

for example.. pissed is the term i think we use these days

That is a spot on pic imo, the extreme left door is perfectly straight the perspective means the others aren't but looks OK to me

 

[mookster]

I dont drink, they are in general not straight mate, thus my comment, portrait or landscape is neither here nor there. they just aint straight

for example.. pissed is the term i think we use these days

That's not on the piss, it's purely the perspective. The doors further back are perfectly straight.

 

[Down and beyond]

@Wevsky am afraid this time you been out voted does look like a string line job to me

 

[Wevsky]

@Wevsky am afraid this time you been out voted does look like a string line job to me

I say what i see mate, i have a bit of a thing about pics not being straight , and a few of yours set my ocd right off, nowt wrong with any of them, well nothing a little adjustment wouldnt make

 

[Wevsky]

That's not on the piss, it's purely the perspective. The doors further back are perfectly straight.

yep i see that mookster, if personally have the line of the panels straight as thats the main view point

 

[Wevsky]

Thats a perspective effect that you get with any close view, if you look at the door on left thats perfectly straight. Some newer cameras come with a feature to correct this, before digital that required very expensive 'parallax shift' lenses.

door is yes, id of put the panels straight, or found a happy medium

 

[DaveFM]

door is yes, id of put the panels straight, or found a happy medium

no way to do that without putting the door at an angle though, this can be overcome by photographing from a distance with a longer lens but thats not an option for indoor pictures.