St Michael’s Mount. Normandy. April 2014
Meditation (B&W)
Landing Beaches (Sword Beach)
So beautiful and so peaceful now; imagine that beach on June 6th, 1944, some 70 years ago, with “an invasion fleet from eight different navies, comprising 6,939 vessels: 1,213 warships, 4,126 landing craft of various types, 736 ancillary craft, and 864 merchant vessels. There were 195,700 naval personnel involved”. Their sacrifice shall be remembered. Sword... Continue Reading →
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BayWatch (B&W)
Sword Beach (Riva Bella). Normandy. April 2014.
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Utter Greyness (B&W)
The weather was bleak on that day. And I took pleasure in doing just what one should never do: i.e. split a landscape in 2. And it worked. I’m not unhappy with that shot. Normandy. Sword Beach (Riva Bella). Easter 2014.
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Cloister Shadows (B&W)
Cloister in Caen - Abbaye aux hommes. Normandy. 2014.
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Cedrus Libani and the “Entente Cordiale” (B&W)
Lebanon Cedars are numerous in France. The first Lebanon Cedar was brought to Britain in 1630, France lagged behind and only caught up - literally - with the Joneses in 1764. There is no end to competition between those two countries, in any area. Well, anyway, the result is this: century old Cedar trees like... Continue Reading →
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Building Site (B&W)
Building site. The old and the new. Saint Michael’s mount. Normandy. April 2014
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The Cloister (Mont Saint Michel) – B&W
The Cloister at Mont St Michel in Normandy is made of a multitude of small thin polished columns sculpted out of English granite. The perspective of its columns and arches can be arranged into endless geometrical patterns. Here are a few examples. April 2014. Saint Michael’s Mount (Normandy).
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Angular Architecture
Le Havre seafront. Some say that 1970s architecture is ugly, but what of comparing it to the 1980s and 1990s? March 2014.
