Pic Spocket

Back in March, I was in France for work, but not in the south this time. I passed 2 weeks in Paris and 1 week in the Vendée area, near the western coast. I have yet to sort and process the Paris pictures (I took like 1200 photos) but I did process the ones from the other areas visited during this trip. These areas are highlighted in the map below:

Some of these areas will be covered in part 2 and 3. The week outside Paris was in Vendée. My hotel was in Les Herbiers and the customer located in Saint-Prouant. This area is mostly rural. I wish I had some time to search for nice landscapes, but work occupied a lot of my time.

Here are a few pictures snapped on my way to work in Saint-Prouant in the morning. The first one is a HDR of a small road going in the woods, with early sunlight rays piercing through morning mist. The second one is a reflection on a lake.

In Les Herbiers, where my hotel was located, there was a small castle that I would also pass every morning on my way to work. This picture was obtained by combining several exposures since it did not fit in my viewfinder even with a wide angle lens.

A few hundred meters from my hotel, there was the ‘Mont Alouette’, having windmills on display and a small chapel on the other side of the road. These pictures were taken at sunset at the top of this hill.

On Friday afternoon after work, I went for a car ride in the area and ended up in the village of Saint-Laurent-sur-Sèvres. The chuch there mostly captured my attention, but also the façade of a building.

See more picture of the Vendée area.

To be continued…

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