Story a flooded village..., a photo from Languedoc-Roussillon, South

Photographer's Note

This colorful panorama is centred on the small town of Celles. This village was located in the red argilites of the permian basin of Lodève (see my previous contributions dealing with the area)untill 1968. Between 1968 and 1970, a rentention dam has been built and the Salagou's lake has formed (and the major part of the village has been flooded,after evacuation, of course !). As it is frequent in such cases, one man refused to get thrown away from his house and stayed in it while water was running up the land. By chance, the man's house was one of the fews that were located the higher on the future lake border and water stopped at a few tens of meters from its door. Nowadays the lake level is stabilized and people have bought some of the ruins of the old village to re-build them. But one of these house has never been ruined: the one of the man I talked about before. I think he's dead now, but he probably lived into this house untill he died...
... And this house is one of the few you can see on this picture.

Gatis, alainh, Burnham, robertspotswood, prlcs, nfriedli, jrj, ChrisJ has marked this note useful

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Gatis (925) 2004-06-17 9:27

Very interesting description which makes me look at this picture differently.
This bush in middle disturbs. You could lift camera up or step a little to the left?

alainh (35538) 2004-06-17 9:34

Bonjour Bazal.
un commentaire bien riche et idéalement illustré par ta photo. Ca sent les vacances tout ça !!!
au plaisir
alain

Burnham (2428) 2004-06-17 9:36

Very good note the story is interesting. The wiev is so nice and it seemed you had a great light when taking this shot.

dopiro (830) 2004-06-17 11:47

Quelle intéressante histoire Loic!
On en apprend des trucs sur TE!!!
Bravo pour l'enrichissant panorama!!

:)

prlcs (63) 2004-06-17 16:21

Superbe image panoramique pour un hommage poignant.
Félicitations Loic !

ephemere33 (9743) 2004-06-17 17:27

j'aime beaucoup a facon de mettre en valeur tes photos en panoramique...le cadrage de la photo est super, les couleurs chaudes donne une certaine athmosphère de douceur et de repos...tres bien vu
bi

yesterday (9833) 2004-06-18 3:19

Good panorama view, good compoced, good light and color.

nfriedli (1060) 2004-06-18 4:21

Belle image du Salagou. Le format d'image allongé est bien choisi et les teintes si particulières de l'endroit sont très bien rendues. En plus, la notice est bien fournie. Bravo!

jrj (34839) 2004-06-19 4:24

Interesting pix with very informative notes. Well composed and a good connection to your story. Well done Loic

dominique (11414) 2004-06-19 15:38

Un tres beau panorama , la vue est vraiment belle comme ce ciel , la composition est complete et vraiment tres belle . bien vu .

ChrisJ (82363) 2004-06-21 5:02

I would level the horizon, & add some green, cyan & blue to the lake. A very nice landscape. Well done.

Didi (44602) 2004-10-01 11:20

J'y suis passé au lac du Salagou la semaine dernière.
Agréable paysage, le buisson du milieu ne me dérange pas, il fait partie de la composition, mais je me serai décalé un peu cers la gauche pour cacher la voiture qui fait une tache blanche.
N'oubliez pas les francophones pour vos commentaires.