Looking down into the canyon. near navacelles, September 2014
Category: France
A cold day near the aqueduct
Jour d’hiver sous le pont
Granite contours
These strangely rounded boulders watch impassively as we struggle up the steep slopes. 1400 m. Near les Bouzèdes on Mount Lozère.
Runes
This waterfall drops off the Bondons plateau from about 1000 m altitude and cascades down a ravine towards the Tarn river. The cascade is only a short walk from a small parking area, but it takes a good map to find the road to the location.
Attacking the slopes
Can’t see the trail but it’s there somewhere ! (north face of the Anjeau peak)
Desirable residence (prehistoric)
Wonder how long they lived here?
Light and Shadow
On the north face of the Pic d’Anjeau. Sun streaming over the ridge just catches a few tree trunks.
Vertical Lines
Converging lines and high ceilings in the Narbonne Cathedral.
Landslip
December 2002 – Villard de Dourbes: 80 hectares of mountain terrain slide into the valley. In this landscape, taken from the St Pancras Chapel near Dignes-les-Bains in 2008, the scar on the mountain is visible near the centre of the image.
A lonely chapel
Saint-Michel-de-Cousson, 1400m, French Alps. Chapelle de Saint Michel de Cousson, 1400m, Alpes de Haute Provence.
Ruined towers in a French market town
Uzès, France.
Aqueduct on the Gardon River.
Under light of the setting sun on a day in March. A 50 km long aquaduct built by the Romans around 50 AD, to deliver water from the hinterland to the city of Nimes. Vertical drop over 50 km: approx. 16 m. The pictured structure is the main remaining vestige of the aquaduct where it…
The Vidourle
The Vidourle river flows out of the Cévennes mountain range into a region of karstic limestone. The water seeps into and enlarges cracks in the limestone and forms an underground river system. In the case of the Vidourle, no sooner is it out of the Cevennes mountains than it disappears underground. Some 10 km away…
