the Virgin and her shadow, a photo from Languedoc-Roussillon, South

Photographer's Note

Conques-sur-Orbiel (Aude, Languedoc, south of France).

This 2245 inhabitants little town is located about 9 km north from Carcassonne.

The place has grown up at the XIIth century, on a little mount. It has been protected by walls at the XIIIth.
But the city was pillaged and burnt at the XVth by a spanish troops ledby the captain Rodrigues de Villendras.
The XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries are the peak of the place thanks to sheet factories which made the wealth of the Carcassonne area.

Nowadays, we can still see a part of the castle, the church but the walls were destroyed for a circular road.
anyway, it remains this ancient door (XVth) wich allows to enter the old town. The Virgin was set on the top in 1945.

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cd70 (0) 2009-10-20 14:50

Hello Yannis,
une vision tr鋊 originale que tu as su capter. Et pas tr鋊憝idente en raison de la lumi鋨e qui me para褾 assez dure. Mais la zone d'ombre est bien d彋aill嶪 et le mur blanc n'a pas explos� ! Et surtout un cadrage dynamique, bravo !

alain66et6 (84) 2009-10-21 1:37

Salut Yannis,
Sympa cette photo et tr鋊 joli travail sur les lignes et les couleurs !
Vue de dos cette statue de la vierge me fait penser � un vagabond bien r嶪l annon蓷nt la bonne nouvelle � la foule entass嶪 au pied de ce mur.?."/.
Comme par exemple, la victoire de l'OM en C1 ! lol
Bonne journ嶪.
Alain