On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Ralf R. Radermacher <[email protected]> wrote: > Two more from this year's xmas holidays. > > Not many people know that the typical Flemish landscape extends from > Belgium well into Northern France. People even used to speak Flemish > there until the government in Paris put an end to this like they've done > with all regional languages in various French regions. By the early 20th > century, there were signs on the local schoolyards saying "It is > forbidden to spit on the ground and to speak Flemish!" > > Nowadays, everybody speaks French, but the unique wide-open landscape, > "le plat pays", known from Jacques Brel's famous song with "its > cathedrals as the only mountains" and "its sky so grey that a canal > hanged itself" remains. Here's a typical scene from les Attaques, a > village along the Canal de Calais: > > http://www.fotocommunity.de/pc/pc/mypics/841415/display/15743020 > > Next one is a stitched pano of a former sugar mill, a few miles further > up the same canal. 6 frames (portrait) stitched in PanoTools (the > resulting file is over 10,000 pixels wide): > > http://www.fotocommunity.de/pc/pc/mypics/855640/display/15746918 > > As usual, your comments and suggestions... :-)
I love draw bridges, and that's a lovely one! The pano's terrific, too. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
