20th May 2015, 12:43 PM
If you tried actually publishing anything you'd discover you can sell any number of site photos? - its called illustration....of course you've got to get people in the field to actually take useable pictures in the first place, or even have the vision to even realise that they could be used :face-thinks:
As a couple of recent personal e.g.s:
(1) Roman ditch running across site - normal practice these days would probably be to photograph a few excavated segments, probably not the whole 200m of ditch in the stripped area, and only 1 person in 100 would think of maybe including the extant modern hedgeline continuing the line of the boundary up the hillside beyond (neat evidence for continuity of boundary for 2000yrs that any reader can understand without any archaeo-waffle) - add in a couple of foreground scales and a few diggers in the middle distance for interest...
(2) Pair of Neo pits (Grooved Ware), quite cute anyway, but vastly improved by the absolutely stunning sea-view beyond (only slightly spoilt these days by Easington Colliery in between, can't win them all), makes it easier than a thousand words to convey the idea that yer Neolithic persons could pick their viewpoints for doing stuff.
Simples
As a couple of recent personal e.g.s:
(1) Roman ditch running across site - normal practice these days would probably be to photograph a few excavated segments, probably not the whole 200m of ditch in the stripped area, and only 1 person in 100 would think of maybe including the extant modern hedgeline continuing the line of the boundary up the hillside beyond (neat evidence for continuity of boundary for 2000yrs that any reader can understand without any archaeo-waffle) - add in a couple of foreground scales and a few diggers in the middle distance for interest...
(2) Pair of Neo pits (Grooved Ware), quite cute anyway, but vastly improved by the absolutely stunning sea-view beyond (only slightly spoilt these days by Easington Colliery in between, can't win them all), makes it easier than a thousand words to convey the idea that yer Neolithic persons could pick their viewpoints for doing stuff.
Simples