First day after flight and drive from airport to the cousins. Absolutely surprised there was enough water despite outgoing tide to get a quick swim! After the flight, 2 hours traffic jams leaving Paris and 6 hours to Armor-Pleubian, it was welcome surprise!

First oysters of the trip at the Cabane a Huitres (Oyster Shack) at La Roche Jaune. Sublime sunset over the estuary of the Jaudy river.

Detail shot.

AI enhanced for sharpness, still fighting with the focus on my new Fuji lens.

I lined up the sun over the building and was hoping my wife would listen to my entreaties to turn around…..she is deaf to her husband voice…..

This house sits right on the seawall with the public access “chemin de douaniers” (customs path) on its front stoop.

This is one of the more impressive homes that you can see overlooking Port Blanc.

An attempt to get the crane on the “cale” framing the low tide 20’/8m below…..not totally successful.

Framing Dominique through an opening on the “cale”.

Shot from up high on the “cale” at the “port du pêcheur” in port blanc.

This skipper had some nerve coming in at low tide, at full sail, and ripping along in a massive racing boat.

A little thrift along the patio

I am obsessed by this tree and have tried to photograph it for two years now. This one is a cheat and the blue sky got wrecked with banding by either Lightroom or the sharpen AI. Getting the color, the light and the sharpness has been very, very difficult and I hope to have another chance next year.

First time I take a picture of the moon intentionally with a camera and it isn’t a mess.

Pour la grande fete de 15 aout, une caisse de 12 douzaines est de rigueur…

Les tables francais, a, quel bonheur. Pour la deuxième année, nous avons mis tous les tables de la maison sur la terrasse. / The french table, its a thing! For the second year running, we assembled all the tables of the house out on the terrasse.

Frédérique , Anne Cecile, Dominique, Josephine (futur présidente de la république) et sa mere Françoise.

Premiere rangee (gauche a droite) Guillaume, Julie, Isabelle, Josephine, Anne Cecile, Christine (assis avec le chien), Dominique, Paul. Derrier : Frederique, Alain, Francoise, Jean-Bapstiste (obscure), Didier, Michel, Gerard (obscure).

La coleur et lumiere était tres difficile.

I like this one for the symmetry and the early evening light and the reflections of the trees in the water. / J'aime celui-ci pour la symétrie et la lumière du début de soirée et les reflets des arbres dans l'eau.

Dominique, Philippe (obscure), Sylvie, Marie-Paule, Didier, Frederique, Roland, Anne-Cecile, Paul.

We were having dessert and coffee inside when I spotted this massive cloud outside. I rushed with my camera to try and catch it. People thought something was wrong. / Nous étions en train de prendre un dessert et un café à l'intérieur quand j'ai repéré cet énorme nuage à l'extérieur. Je me suis précipité avec mon appareil photo pour essayer de l'attraper. Les gens pensaient que quelque chose n'allait pas

Composition, texture of the stone, layers

This blank wall captures the varied tones of the stone used throughout Treguier.

Moi, j’aime les photos miniature. Et nous avons trouve une merveille dans ce magasin…

A flock of birds over the cathedral

I thought the colors, all arranged, were interesting.

Notice the candy tree? And underneath her arm is something precious…..

This guy goes to every market, selling a book about his(?) voyages around the world. I guess it was a slow day. / Ce type va sur tous les marchés, vendant un livre sur ses (?) Voyages autour du monde. Je suppose que c'était une journée lente.

I tried to get the far and the near in focus and properly exposed. Despite mammoth amounts of masking and editing it’s a flop and the color is flat.

Une de mes préférés photographes de 2022

Une calvaire derrière leur petit maison a Camlez

La maison est entoure des champs d’agriculture

La art de la table française, une code visuelle non écrit mais connue pars ses amateurs

A semi-successful attempt to focus and get proper eposure through a window.

This dense thicket of branches behind the Gilberts main yard presented a challenge to get the exposure and focus just right to peer into the tangled arms of the trees (fruit trees I believe)

I liked the colorful shadows cast through the glassware, lovely late summer late afternoon light.

This path did not exist until a few years ago (near Kermarquer). You used to take your life into your hands walking a blind curve.

Not a great photo but for me, first time I thought to photo the entrance to the place now that there is a path where you can stand and not get run over….I should have brushed out the overhead wire in the foreground….Ok, I just did :-)

Lit from behind, I thought it was ok as a photograph but no one else liked it. I removed a wire that was annoying me.

We went to the Monday night market with Sonia and Gino to get their first proper crepe

Mainly breton tunes. I tried to get the crop more balanced but that fiddler in the foreground is so much taller than the others!

The violinist was very charming, patient and attentive to the small children cavorting around the trio.

The older couple had shown everyone proper breton dances but the kids could only do twists do everyone started to do the twist.

The guitarist was also a trumpet player, here accompanying the fiddler singing some song….the trumpeter was a bit annoyed, his partner hadn’t quite learned the lyrics…

A fierce light pushing through the clouds and igniting the water at sunset.

I think this shot came out quite nice, the ladies look great, the evening light is good and everyone is in focus. I was doing a lot of manual shots (focus, speed and aperture) but I still need to master the metering. Oh, and I remember to bring my tripod

Less successful, I was having trouble with the wind and my camera settings. I look displeased.

Almost medieval…..

A very difficult shot to balance the light, I gave up and let the light from the windows rule the shot and masked and raised the stone interior in software.

A mistake but quite pleasing to my eye

The proper shot of the ghosted light. This is near the shrine to St Yves, the kneeling figure I think is St Yves.

Not bad, they were unruly models, not listening to my instructions. And I screwed up the focus on this one, had to resort to Sharpen AI to recover….

Not a fascinating shot I agree.

Another kind of throw away shot….more for documentary purposes

A shot I have tried many times, this time I think the combination of the camera, lens, good light conditions, proper settings and a bit of software really make the light jewels pop.

An easy banal architectural shot of the main tower

Not a gargoyle, not a statue, this head held by its own miniature hands is one of many on the exterior of the church.

Not totally bad, despite shooting into the sun and lacking a wide angle lens….

A love of light, or to be soppy, a light of love. Dutch master inspired?

Not a top ten shot, maybe more zoom/crop? Unbalanced.

Purposeful shot, she obeyed instructions!

Another into the sun shot but nicely shows the most ancient tower of the Cathedrale of St Tugduall, viewed from the Cloisters. And the gargoyles on the left are pretty clear as well.

I like my small architectural details, I am sorry.

She almost obeyed and did a head turn. This was the best angle. I intentionally did not crop to center her completely. I wanted some of the stone wall to move off into the distance on the right.

Lots of these recessed nooks with statues scattered around the town.

This was purely me killing time as my wife shopped. I was trying to get the tower, the lamp and the statue all in the same shot all in focus, and properly exposed. The sun direction killed me and I could not get the depth of field to get the tower in focus.

This style of stone work, with the massive blocks surrounding a field of colorful smaller stones with raised mortar I believe is a somewhat more modern style. I liked its shape and color. You find these in between doors and windows, generally with three to five inset blocks.

Again, killing time while my wife and Sonia were shopping nearby, I nailed the focus, “wicked” crisp and sharp (wicked is a Boston expression, meaning “really exemplary”, superlative). This JPEG version does not do it justice but Squarespace is so limited in its image formats and color depth, I really need to migrate my photos to a better platform. I know, I know, SmugMug!

Look close, those instruments are ordinary drywall screws. I wish the light was “wider”…..something in my edit I still am lacking.

I liked the forms and group of colors and played with dropping the background to just have the jackets stand out.

Delightful finials, I want some!!! Oh, and that slate is sooo chunky and sexy.

This is the door of the chicken finial house. Currently home to a fine jeweler.

I think except for the pesky cars, I nailed this one. And yes, lots of treatment in software but mainly, balancing the sky and foreground exposures. The sky was almost as is. I did lighten the church more than needed for the impact. I took this one sitting at a cafe with Sonia, Gino and Dominique

I just could not pick between this one and the next one.

This is a tighter, closer crop, Dominique’s mouth is open. I think she looks stunning. The more I look at the two shots, the more I think this is the better one and better edit.

The light was bad, so instead of throwing away this shot, which has a classic view of the island, I decided to blatantly pander away and mask and boost. My wife hates this edit - the colors are too unnatural. Me, I look around the news papers and internet and this is the treatment given to many photos to pull in the eye. How about you, what is your take?

This boulder spends a fair part of the day submerged by the tide. What could have formed those holes? It is the only boulder I have seen in the area with those holes.

I liked the water, clean and clear, glistening amongst the boulders.

A more sober edit of a classic Port Blanc vista. The white tall object is a navigation guide, locally called a “pain de sucre” or sugarloaf. This one as a twin across the mouth of the harbor entrance. Sailors line up the Port Blanc guide on the land (see earlier photo) between these two to find the harbor mouth.

A good photo for friends, not really a photographic masterwork.

A lovely light and a breeze, we walked out to Ile au Femmes at the low tide but were too late (and the tide not strong enough) to walk over to Ile du Chateau.

She obeyed and turned her head as I was shooting. Nice shot of my lovely wife.

Sonia and Gino up on top of rocks, I am standing on the ground exposed by the tide. Again, a photo for friends.

I kind of like this one, the shape of the slabs with Port Blanc in the distance.

Another shot of Dominique, this time looking out to sea.

We thought they were some weird species of barnacles all these years. Dominique finally looks them up on the interwebz and lol! they are a snail! Eaten only in times of starvation from what we have heard.

Gino in the distance along the immense beachs of small rounded stones, galets in French. I like it the shot even if most people don’t. I think it really captures the place, Port Blanc, the immense tides, the later summer sky, and mounds of galets heaped into rows (sillons) and lining the rocky isles, pushed around by waves and the currents and thrown around in the storms.

The water is pretty much that color, I did some editing but again, my objective on this vacation was to shoot so my light level was based on my subject/foreground and then edit the sky back down.

Another friends photos, Sonia and Gino waiting for the dawdling photographer and his lovely mate who has to examine all the rocks and tidal pools looking for interesting sea creatures.

This hole in the granite, surrounded by a ring of salt left over from evaporation. Is this natural or was it drilled for some lost reason like a post for navigation or anchorage?

I have been trying to photograph this mailbox and the magnificent cyprus tree on the property, unsuccessfully as usual, for a few years…..this one is took light and dark at the same time, I did not get a shot the recreates how my eye saw it.