Archive for the 'Landscape' Category
Play Misty for Me
I took about 500 or so photos on holiday (I like to add them up and think in terms of how many rolls of film it would have been, and how much it would cost to develop them the analogue way), but they were mostly snapshots of course, holiday snaps, taken in large quantities in [...]
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Tags: dawn, France, loire-atlantique, marais, mist, vendee
Turbo
This windfarm near Beauvoir-sur-Mer, on the way to Noirmoutier via the gois, was signposted as a parc éoliennes, which seems a much nicer term than wind farm. You could drive right up to them, park up and see how bloody huge they are, and listen to the noise they make.
Some people object to them on [...]
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Tags: éolienne, energy, France, turbine, vendee, wind
This is not my home
Plancher Bas is the village in France from which my wife comes. It’s an okay sort of place, nothing spectacular. It’s pretty rural and there’s a smell of woodsmoke in the air in the winter. The road through it doesn’t really lead anywhere, though it does by-pass the centre of the village (what you can [...]
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Tags: France, village life
Shiny
We ate lunch in an interesting square with a covered market, some of which dated from the Roman occupation, and then we walked up the hill. Somewhere between eating some of my daughter’s frites and taking this photo, I must have touched the lens of the camera. All the pictures taken that afternoon (where light [...]
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Tags: Charente, church, France
Castle Woebegone
Days in a daze in France on holiday. When I’m with my wife and her brother and his girlfriend, my girls, their girls, and everyone is speaking rapid French and pronouncing everything correctly, I sometimes feel like a bewildered rock star: what town are we in?
I look at a map and I see the name [...]
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Tags: castle, dordogne, France
Log a Rhythm
I’m a keen student of the log pile. My wife’s great aunt has an awesome one outside her house, which appears to defy gravity. I often think about the coming apocalypse, the post-oil economy, and what it will be like. During the Cold War, the Americans and the Russians had their fingers on their various [...]
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Tags: energy, France, fuel, logs, wood
