Are there some good video shots of the winter solstice?

It does make for a dull celebration if the sun doesn't come out on the days of the winter solstice. The sun didn't come out in Vancouver this year for the 3 or 4 days around the shortest day of the year. Oddly enough, it was snowing, not raining as usual this year, but there was still no sun, no shadows.

But we don't have any ancient monuments in the Vancouver area - that I know of - that show amazing sights when the angle of the sun is just right as sun rises on the solstice. In other areas of the world there are many monuments that relate to the winter solstice. So in this age of video cell-phones and YouTube are people donating video to the world of the sun rising on the winter solstice on ancient monuments?

The 5000 year old mound at Newgrange in Ireland has a webcast of the event. This year they didn't get sun for the solstice, so they "incorporated clips from the 2007 webcast into the 2008 webcast". That's a bit of a cheat, but it's fascinating to watch.

2,000 people gather around Stonehenge for the winter solstice to see the sun shine on the monument and cast it's shadows. This year, that was a bit of a bust because it was cloudy there as well. (Ten times the number of people gather at Stonehenge for the sumer solstice, but that marks the time when the days start getting shorter, a bit of a bummer, and you're a bit of a wimp if you make it to the summer solstice and not the winter solstice.) Check out some of the celebrations on YouTube.

But beyond that, there are very few videos of winter solstice at ancient monuments around the world. Is there any way to encourage people to video these events and share them? In the future I will be keeping my eyes open for opportunities while surfing to suggest those lucky enough to be close to ancient monuments to take some time to video them.