Algae covered timber groynes on Gold Beach, Normandy.
This shot was taken in mid-afternoon. There was a light cloud cover, the ambient light was bright and evenly-spread. The result is a feeling of the “tropics”.
It is said that William the Conqueror and Harold Godwinson crossed the bay from this point.
This shot was taken in late afternoon – there was a light to medium cloud cover above and behind me. The Mont Saint-Michel was covered in denser clouds. The result is this “moonscape”.
“Being asked what animal you'd like to be is a trick question; you're already an animal.”
Douglas Coupland
Douglas Coupland
Ozymandias
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: `Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear –
“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.’
“A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.”
Hal Borland
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Hal Borland
“Vision changes while it observes.”
James Ensor
James Ensor
The Corsican Fire Salamander (Salamandra corsica) is a species of salamander in the Salamandridae family. It is found only in Corsica. Its natural habitats are temperate forests, Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation, rivers, intermittent rivers, swamps, freshwater marshes, and intermittent freshwater marches. It is threatened by habitat loss. Read more (in French) on : Wikipedia
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