The pose, Saint-Clement-des-baleines Photo

Photographer’s Note

April 17, 2009
Saint-Clément-des-Baleines 170318 17590
Charente-Maritime Poitou-Charentes
46.233 -1.550 5 m

The pose. Lighthouse of the Wales, Ré island.

One sight.
Other sight.

Lighthouse of the Whales, 19th century.

The lighthouse of the whales is located on the commune of Saint-Clément-des-Baleines, with the Western point of the island of Ré. Many strandings of whales had place in the past, from where the name of the lighthouse. One have access at the top, 57 m, by a helicoid staircase of 257 steps. The rise is impressive, most courageous risk a glance above the rambarde, the others shave the walls.
The lighthouse, classified historic building in 1999, is worth visiting and still functions, its fire has a range of 39 kilometers.
Built since 1849, it replaced in 1854 a tower, the Tower of the Whales of 21 meters built in 1682 on the orders of Vauban and which remains in the north of the lighthouse. http://www.lepharedesbaleines.fr/grand_phare.htm
http://www.lepharedesbaleines.fr/grand_phare.htm

Close to the lighthouse, Tower of the Whales, 17th century.

The tower of the whales is located on the commune of Saint-Clément-des-Baleines,à the North-western point of the island of Ré. Many strandings of whales took place in the past, from where the name of the headlight and of the commune.
The tower was built of 1669 to 1682 by architect AUGIER, on order of Colbert, and a program of Vauban to be useful, with the headlight of Chassiron on the island of Oléron, of cover advanced with the arsenal of Rochefort, created in 1666.
The tower had function of monitoring, ensuring the protection of the naval port of Rochefort and allowing the maritime observation. It ensured the assistance navigation and lighting, burning fish oil.
She was built with hard stones of Saint-Savinien, in Poitou-Charentes. The tower is always upright nowadays. The old tower of the Whales was on classified Historic building June 22, 1904. Of a height 29 m, and 8 m in diameter, and built with hard stones of Saint-Savinien, it comprises 3 stages with 3 parts which one can reach by a spiral staircase.
The old tower is replaced by the Lighthouse of the Whales at the Western point of the island of Ré, built of 1849 and brought into service in 1854.
http://www.lepharedesbaleines.fr/vieille_tour.htm

Saint-Clément-des-Baleines is a French commune, located on the Island of Ré, department of the Charente-Maritime, Poitou-Charentes area, populated of 728 Villagers and Villageoises, distributed on 7 km², is 107 hab/km².

There are of important remainders blockhouse of the Atlantic Wall, dating from the Second World war. Certain scenes of film "the longest day" were turned on the Northern beach http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Cl%C3%A9ment-of-Whales.

My images of Saint-Clément-des-Baleines.

Budapestman, phwall, danos, Charo, feather, bobocortis, Clementi, skippy007, dareco, Graal, pierrefonds, adramad has marked this note useful

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Budapestman (41618) 2009-06-30 1:42

Hi Joel,
Superb photo from this lighthouse with an imposing size. The beautiful blue sky gives spectacular background to the tower. The people looking around in the forefront give pleasant mood to the photo, the composition great balanced. Congratulations. Have a nice day!
George

phwall (5542) 2009-06-30 1:52

Hello Joel,
An impressive capture of this impressive lighthouse.
What a marvelous structure, one wonders how it can stand up in a strong wind, it looks so vulnerable.
Thank you for the informative note to go with this capture, together they make an informative and picturesque presentation.
Regards
Peter

PixelTerror (86038) 2009-06-30 2:56

Bonjour Joel
Un phare que j'ai deja vu chez d'autres trekkers et qui a l'air d'attirer les foules, c'est vrai qu'il est joli et ici bien anime par la scene de prise de vue a gauche.
Bonne journee JY

danos (32250) 2009-06-30 7:11

Hi Joel,
nice presentation of this brilliant lighthouse of the whales.Impressive the loftiness of the construction,as your informative note for it.Well done.

Have a nice afternoon,Danos

Nicou (44571) 2009-06-30 7:43

Hello Joël,

Merveilleux phare, il est immense, ces belle pierres girse et blanches, on voit bien le sommet avec el vitrage, image viviante et bleine de belles couelur, mangigique.

bravo e amitié

Nicou

Charo (31665) 2009-06-30 8:12

Bonjour Joël,
Ce phare est la plus bonne et que je photographie moi-même récemment.
Excellent point de vue sur ce qui rend encore plus minces.
Une scène très animé par les visiteurs qui ne donnent pas une échelle de temps des dimensions.
Bien vu.
Amicalement,
Charo

feather (49858) 2009-06-30 8:31

From this POV it looks like the lighthouse is well inland, but I can see the near-by rocks indicating the sea close by in WS1. It is a very impressive structure and looks more modern than 19th century.
It is very difficult getting a tourist-free view of popular places, so it was a good idea to make the tourists part of your composition.
Kath

Vasa (5432) 2009-06-30 11:38

Tu es d'accord avec moi, Joel, que c'est diffcile de prendre les sujet si haut. Pour les completer on risque une mince composition. Je pense que tu t'es tres bien sorti ici: tu as garde la verticalite de la tour, tu as mis le sujet dans la coupe ideale (3+2). Au total ca fait une tres belle presentation et elle complete la mosaique de ta riche presentation. Encore une photo digne de ta signature!

merci et bravo, ami

Branko

bobocortis (14140) 2009-06-30 12:25

Bonsoir Joel.
Le point de vue très basse est bien choisi.
La presence des personnes donne vivacité au cadrage.
Du bon travail.
Bien vu.
Amicalement, Bobo.

jemaflor (39235) 2009-06-30 13:17

Salut Joel,
Belle construction avec ce phare et bonne composition d'image avec cette scene photographique habituelle devant les monument, là tu l'utilise pour donner vie et faire un clin d'oeil, bon ensemble;

Clementi (43757) 2009-06-30 14:11

Ciao Joel,
impressionante e imponente questo faro, hai fatto bene ad inserire anche le persone aiutano a cpire la grandezza, Il cielo e' fantastico hai trovato una bellissima giornata che ti ha regalato colori magnifici.
ottimo lavoro
Giorgio

skippy007 (6967) 2009-06-30 15:45

Hello Joel, I like your choice of low POV in this shot it provides such a good perspective, it makes the tower look very tall & thin, perhaps even taller than in reality. I also like the inclusion of people, especially the photographer on the left. A good quality image in excellent natural colours, enhanced by your very informative note.
Thank you
Regards
Santo
By coincident my last post was also of a lighthouse.

dareco (17104) 2009-06-30 16:11

I like this low pov and the lighting, detail and colors are very natural and beautiful. An interesting post. TFS

jjcordier (24510) 2009-06-30 22:46

Joël
Ce phare des baleines est impressionnant par sa taille et pas facile à photographier. Tu as eu la bonne idée d'inclure la scène du photographe et de son modèle pour agrémenter ta composition.
Amicalement
JJ

Graal (57717) 2009-06-30 23:44

Bonjour Joel,
amazing tower and good caught scene. Well done photo here and in WS. An interesting note with links. Solid presentation.
Gr., Aleksander

pierrefonds (26137) 2009-07-01 16:58

Bonsoir Joël,

La présence des personnes a un effet d'échelle de grandeur. Les arbres cadrent bien le phare. La prise de vue permet de distinguer les détails et les couleurs de l'architecture du phare. L'image est claire et précise. La lumière met en valeur les couleurs de l'image. Bonne soirée.

Pierre

sacavem (8225) 2009-07-02 7:57

Olá Joel,

Excellent compo and POV, very nice colours, and light.The presence of tourists, clearly shows the scale of the lighthouse.
Filipe

JCG (25173) 2009-07-02 10:46

Bonsoir Joël,

Mouvement intéressant autour de ce joli phare qui le met bien en valeur je trouve. J'aime bien ton cadrage surbaisse qui donne du volume à l'image et cette belle lumière donnant des jeux d'ombre appréciables. Bonne série sur ce phare et merci Joël pour la note instructive.

Avec toutes mes amitiés et une très bonne soirée,

Jean-Charles

adramad (3530) 2009-07-03 15:37

Salut Joël.
Superb photo avec cela un phare si spectaculaire avec sa grande hauteur, l'inclusion de personnages nous donne mieux l'idée des proportions, de ciel précieux avec une luminosité dont il permet de profiter de tout l'ensemble.
Des saluts et un bon week-end.
Luis.

Le 5 prochain je pars d'un voyage par les Pyrénées, au retour nous suivrons dans un contact en voyant le nouveau matériel de nos galeries.