Two more from this year's xmas holidays. Not many people know that the typical Flemish landscape extends from Belgium well into Northern France. People even used to speak Flemish there until the government in Paris put an end to this like they've done with all regional languages in various French regions. By the early 20th century, there were signs on the local schoolyards saying "It is forbidden to spit on the ground and to speak Flemish!"
Nowadays, everybody speaks French, but the unique wide-open landscape, "le plat pays", known from Jacques Brel's famous song with "its cathedrals as the only mountains" and "its sky so grey that a canal hanged itself" remains. Here's a typical scene from les Attaques, a village along the Canal de Calais: http://www.fotocommunity.de/pc/pc/mypics/841415/display/15743020 Next one is a stitched pano of a former sugar mill, a few miles further up the same canal. 6 frames (portrait) stitched in PanoTools (the resulting file is over 10,000 pixels wide): http://www.fotocommunity.de/pc/pc/mypics/855640/display/15746918 As usual, your comments and suggestions... :-) Ralf -- Ralf R. Radermacher - DL9KCG - Köln/Cologne, Germany private homepage: http://www.fotoralf.de manual cameras and photo galleries - updated Jan. 10, 2005 Contarex - Kiev 60 - Horizon 202 - P6 mount lenses -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
