Rainbow in Bayeux

 

Photo by © Natalia Krasnova, 2021

A beautiful rainbow near Bayeux.

Normandy Light. Dixit Dominus.

Sun piercing the clouds on a Sunday afternoon. Always makes me remember the beautiful music of Dixit Dominus.

Handel's Dixit Dominus —

Granville. Storm Coming.

The beach swiftly emptied as the thunderstorm approached. It was dead calm — and then a violent squall lashed out.

Wheat field with poppies.

A wheat field with red poppies, near Viessoix, Calvados. / Un champ de blé aux coquelicots rouges près de Viessoix, Calvados

The kind of field Theresa May would have run through as a naughty child.

Wind turbines and a church.

A wind farm towering over the church in Fresne-Porêt, a village on the border between the Orne and South Manche. / Un parc éolien domine l'église à Fresne-Porêt, un petit village à la frontière entre l'Orne et le Sud Manche.

A Winter Day.

A winter day in Normandy.
January 2016.
by Miranda Ingram.

Summer evening in Normandy.

Here you can see why hundreds of artists flocked to Normandy to paint. The light is incredible.

Photos  by © Francesca Bostock.

After Harvest.

It's harvest time. Some poppies left on the side of the field.

Bountiful.

Near Caumont-Leventé, Calvados -

Wind Turbines. Generation. (6)

Girl picking flowers in the field in Calvados. Giant wind farm in the background.
Sixth and final picture in the series.

This blog is open to contributors. Send in your photo of Normandy, or on a related subject.

Wind Turbines. Conflict. (5)

Same spot in the Manche, but the cross and the turbine walk in opposite directions. Fifth photo in the series on wind turbines.

Wind Turbines. Fields of Green. (4)

This field with poppies is on Calvados Plain. Wind farm in the background.

Fourth in the series.

Wind Turbines. In the Mist. (3)

In the mist. A wind turbine seems to come head to head with a stone cross.

Not photoshopping here. It's a real place in Normandy.

Third in a series.

Wind Turbines. Noon. (2)

Beautiful cloud formation. Second in the series on wind turbines in Normandy.

Wind Turbines. Morning.

I've put together a series of photos of wind turbines in Normandy and will publish them over the next few days.

This wind farm is near Ger in South Manche.

Georges Seurat in Port-en-Bessin.

Port-en-Bessin in Calvados is a lovely fishing village today, famous for its coquilles St. Jacques (scallops). During the Battle of Normandy in 1944 it was through here that petrol for the Allied troops was delivered.

In the 19th Century it was a favourite destination for Georges Seurat (wiki), the impressionist painter who invented pointillism. He made dozens of sketches of the harbour and the surrounding cliffs. A tresle with a study by Seurat stands near the Round Tower of Port-en-Bessin.

Update (23 February 2017): The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) in New York is currently holding a Seurat Circus Sideshow (en exhibition devoted to Seurat). The Web resource Artsy, dedicated to making works of art accessible to anyone with an internet connection,  has a page on Seurat and invited The Normandy Photo Journal to share and publicise it. Thanks, Artsy!

See Seurat's famous 'A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte' on my 'Reading Art' blog here.

  

First Frost of the Year.

Winter.
Yesterday it was -3ºC in the morning. The field, the fence posts, the bushes and the trees were all suddenly white.
Except the bright green shoots in tuffets of moss.