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Liz and I found this striking world war two concrete bunker, along with other fortifications that made up part of Adolf Hitler's 'Festung Europa' (Fortress Europe) while walking along the cliffs at Cap Fagnet, just above the Normandy seaside town of Fecamp.
The crumbling ruins from a now, thankfully, bygone era were in a curious juxtaposition with a much more recent addition to the clifftop scenery, wind turbines.
In this image I strove to combine the two to create a visual metaphor, sort of an 'ancient and modern' relationship, if you will.
On reviewing the file back home after our week's holiday, the composition just didn't work in colour, much too jolly for the mood I was trying to convey, but in monochrome the image just speaks to me of the effect on the human psyche of the passage of time.
What was once an object of terror and repression has now become a historical curiosty, overshadowed by defences against the more recent threat of global warming.
Who knows what tourists in another hundred years will be looking at from this spot?
Filename - normandy fecamp 02.jpg
Camera - Canon EOS 5D
Lens - 24-105mm zoom @ 65mm
Exposure - 1/30sec @ f11, ISO100
Location - Fecamp, Normandy, France
This image - 800x640px JPEG
Conversion - ACR & PS-CS2
Comments - Polarising filter used to enhance colours.
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