Notes on Kite Aerial Photography: Photo Gallery

A Drizzly Day continues at
St. Malo, France




What set of European vacation photos would be complete without images from the market? In this case the fruits of the sea at St. Malo (Canon Digital Elph, July 2000)

St. Malo has been a beacon for adventurists and privateers through the centuries. In the 12th century, a new influx of merchants, artisans, ship owners and sailors flocked to St. Malo, and for a brief time it became an independent community. The port town prospered again in the 17th and 18th centuries, when international trade became a major activity and many new forts were erected. Though the city sustained major damage in WWII, it has been tastefully restored and provides the pleasant bustle of a compact European town..

Views of St. Malo's defensive walls and main gateway -- a portal now dominated by accommodation of the automobile (Canon 24-mm, July 2000)

 

While photographing St. Malo I was aware that the defensive walls formed a (military?) courtyard at the city's corner. Peeking from within the courtyard was a six-story tower with lookout post and flying pennants. In my imagination this court was a rich respite from the city or perhaps the tradition-steeped home of military exhibits. The photographs, once developed, revealed instead an asphalt car park. I have come to fear that asphalt will be instrumental in the end of civilization as we know it.

Views of the corner fortifications (Canon 24-mm, July 2000)



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