Normandy; Honfleur, Part 1, 2017
Honfleur is striking for its Old Harbor, filled mainly with expensive sloops and surrounded by historic buildings, fancy lunch spots filled with fancy luncheoneers, and narrow, scenic streets. Its extreme cuty-pie-ness tends to mask its great features, especially its art and history museums and its fascinating wooden cathedral.
But beyond the cute old buildings and museums, for an image artist, the town is defined by its light and, especially, the reflected light in the inner and outer harbors. The long promenade from town past the fine gardens and working port is a treat. How do the tall sloops enter the Old Harbor? More later. And more on reflections later, too.
Old Harbor, from the other side. It is smaller than it looks.
Canopies, waiting to be deployed for luncheoneers around the Old Harbor.
Maritime museum reflection; an important and modest museum
Buildings surround the four sides of the Old Harbor.
L: Ladder from floats for the big sloops. R: the promenade.
A fine garden parallels the promenade, with many inviting benches.
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After a lifetime of mainly expressing myself with words, my postings here will mainly rely on images. They will speak for themselves to some extent, but I'll usually add a few comments of explanation. I've taken photographs for decades, since the 1950's, inspired in part by my father's photographic skill. Four years of photo assignments and quality darkroom time eventually gave way to decades of casual and family picture-taking. I re-immersed myself when I left film and turned to digital.