Monday, August 19, 2013

looking back on an evening along the Dordogne...


An evening scene from several weeks ago:


...sunset light along the Dordogne River in the SW of France, 
the old bastide ('fortified town') of Sainte-Foy-la-Grande...

This week, I'm honored to have this photo featured on iART Chronicles--one of the images chosen for "Painterly Mobile Art Monday." 

While in France, I began experimenting more with "painterly" effects in mobile photography editing...If you're curious, this flickr group shows what other mobile photographers are doing with this...


2 comments:

  1. The picture is splendid.
    (However the bastide is not a fortified town but a town that developed around a central square).

    Carla
    http://southweststory.com

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  2. Thanks for your interest and compliment...The origin and development of the 'bastides' is fascinating (having to do with wars, both political and religious)--as you say, they are towns that have central squares--and they were, mostly, established from the mid-13th to the mid-14th century. Most are laid out in grids and did end up being fortified. As a concise explanation for the average English-speaking reader, 'old fortified town' is usually used.
    http://www.cnrtl.fr/definition/bastide
    http://cordessurciel.eu/history/bastides/
    http://www.ot-agen.org/_eng/visite/bastides2.htm

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