Steve Marshall Panoramic Images

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For many years, I made panoramic pictures with a compact 35mm camera; joining up the individual prints and mounting them on black card.
Admittedly there are sometimes big variations in exposure, and they don't always join up perfectly, but I like them. Here's a selection.
Clicking on the small image will open up a bigger one.

Street scene in Madurai, a South Indian Temple town.

Inside the hypostyle hall of the Karnak temple, in Luxor, Egypt.

Street scene in Allepey, a small town in Kerala, South India.

The Menkaure Pyramid, smallest of the three pyramids at Giza. Alongside it are three even smaller pyramids - believed to be for Menkaure's wives.

Unusual view of the Great Pyramid, Giza. On the left is one of the 'boat pits' - one of them contained a 5000 year-old boat, complete with rigging, that was only discovered in 1954. On the right is the remains of a pavement of basalt slabs, over two feet thick. The pavement is rarely ever mentioned but obviously had great importance when it was built - maybe a flat surface was needed for astronomical observation?

The Sphinx and the Khufu Pyramid, seen from the busy road that delivers a continual supply of tourist buses. The terrible reconstruction work on the Sphinx's front legs can be seen.

The shadow of Silbury Hill, near Avebury in Wiltshire, as seen from the top. Silbury is 4700 years old, and the biggest man-made hill in Europe. It is a couple of miles from the stone circle at Avebury and is part of the greater 'Avebury complex'. This picture is a homage to Lee Miller's similar shot from the top of the Great Pyramid.

Hippies celebrate the sun rising at Summer Solstice, on top of Silbury Hill, 1997 - something that is unlikely to ever happen again. No-one is allowed on top of the hill anymore (except archaeologists and structural engineers) as an 18th century tunnel collapsed in 2000, making a huge hole. The custodians, English Heritage, have temporarily filled it in with polystyrene - not really the way to make a World Heritage site last for thousands more years...

Stonehenge, during a special-access visit at dawn on May Day 1999.

Another shot of Stonehenge, from the same visit. In the centre are writers Jurgen Kronig and John Michell.

A group of stone circles at Wassu, in The Gambia, West Africa. There are ten circles at Wassu; six are arranged in a straight line. Although they look similar to British stone circles, the ones at Wassu are surprisingly recent - dated to only 750 AD (the African Iron Age). The stones are carved from Laterite, a local stone similar to Welsh 'pudding stone'. Freshly-mined Laterite is soft and easy to work, but hardens on exposure to the air. There are hundreds more stone circles in The Gambia and the surrounding country of Senegal.

The Uffington White Horse, on the Berkshire Downs, seen from the back of Bradley, my late Welsh Cob. The stylized white horse was carved into the turf, exposing the underlying chalk and is believed to date from the Bronze Age. The picture was taken during a 90-mile ride along the Ridgeway, from Goring-on-Thames to the Vale of Pewsey.