Viva la France!
Well, here they are finally. My mother always said, "better late than never." I can't imagine this is much better than never, but here are my pictures from my trip to Lacoste, France. There are a whopping 131 of them (some are drawings) edited down from over a thousand. I guess that is why it took me so long.I posted them to snapfish so that I could get prints of them - unlike flicker. Unfortunately, you have to sign in. I hate having to log in to a new service for every little thing. That would keep me from even browsing. So if you are like me, and I think you are, here is log in info for you to use if you aren't already signed in to snapfish -
login - snapphish@gmail.com
password - snapfishy
folder - lacoste
Lacoste and the surrounding area is even more beautiful than my piddly pictures could capture. Still, some of the pictures turned out pretty good. There are some other grad students here that are thinking about going there next spring. I couldn't recommend the experience more. Maybe these pictures could serve as propaganda.
posted by Stephen "Steve" at 9/16/2005 11:08:00 AM
5 Comments:
I tried to find a favorite, but I couldn't. They are all really good. I can't imagine trying to whittle down 1000 pictures to just over 100.
Excellent job. Thank you for sharing them.
Posted by Jeanette
Those are great! I'd love to see the full size versions sometime.
Where was that red earth place called Rousillon? It looks like the painted desert in AZ or something.
Will you take me to all of those places someday?
Posted by Justin
steve, my favorite one was that melange of the sacrecouer 2. will you make me one? i also got really excited by the little doors in lacoste like the one called the library where the little girl is standing and then the one with the stone work. there just needs to be more little doors like that other than at chuck e cheese. dammit. maybe since you've had so much experience with little doors you can help me make a bunch somewhere someday. gotta go.
Posted by arron
Thanks Jeanette! Justin, Rousillion is a natural ochre deposit site. The place was so wacky and beautiful, it blew my mind. There were many parts of southern France that reminded me of the California high desert and coast, and/or the SouthWest in general. So you might be right about the Painted Desert. Arron, that little door (with the little girl in front of it) is actually the entrance to a stone oven. That library used to be a bakery. I think that oven is hundreds of years old and was last used over a hundred years ago. I too loved the ancient doorways and windows. Some of the windows were actually arrow slits!
I was hoping that Snapfish would let me caption the pictures like flicker does, but it doesn't. So you are left to guess as too their meaning.
Posted by Steve
I liked your illustrations...very nice
Posted by Coffeedog