More from the road to St Christophe in the Indre et Loire region of France.
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Looking at the Loire – A French Evening Stroll
This time last year we were in France, the Indre et Loire region. It is our current beautiful weather that has brought this to my mind.
On a few occasions I went for a walk along the St Christophe road from Faye la Vineuse and on one occasion at least I took my cameras and sound kit. I have not been able to do anything with that material since then but looking at the photos again brought back memories of a great holiday.
Over the next couple of days I will be putting up a selection of these images. I have arranged the sequence of photos I want to use for a StillWalk video and now need to work through the sound recording for it. This should take me back there even more than the photos.
Sundown on the River Loughor
I may say this quite often, but it never ceases to amaze me how every time I visit a place, in this case the marshes, it is different.
The other evening when I went down there through the park, I was stunned by the sun setting over the river. Though we often see beautiful sunsets, they never seem to lack impact.
Bull’s Eye
I wasn’t the only one out for a late evening stroll on the marshes last weekend.
You can click the images to enlarge but if you could zoom in on the originals, you would see just how grainy they are from the high ISO.
First shot – ISO3200, f4.5, 1/30. Second shot – ISO3200, f5, 1/30
The Flags Are Out
A late evening walk down on the marshes (last weekend before the rain returned) revealed some colour through the dim light after sunset in the form of an Iris or Flag, whichever you like to call them.
The light really was fading a lot by the time I took these photos which required full manual mode on the camera as any automation tried to over-compensate for the lack of light.
A high ISO of 3200 was needed, f11 at 1/60 for the first shot and ISO3200, f7.1, 1/25 for the second. A good job my Canon EF70-300 lens has image stabilisation.
Evening in the Park
By the time I took these photos on my iPhone on my way back home from Coedbach Park the Blackbirds had stopped singing to each other.
Unique circumstances – I am sorry I didn’t record them – there are so many of them in the park and the breeze was blowing the sound of motorway traffic out to sea so it could hardly be heard at all – like I always say, “the circumstances of what we see and here are always unique to the time and place!”
And So to Bed – Walking to the Sunset
The final shots of the Galloway sunset from the StillWalk “Coastal Walk, Evening” which you can see on the Spring Walks page.
The sounds are as important as the images as with all the StillWalks – relax and enjoy 🙂
The images are available to buy at PhotoShelter