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Bonsecours Monument Jeanne d'Arc


Bonsecours Monument Jeanne d'Arc
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Copyright: Hans Spruijt (GreenBaron) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3191 W: 947 N: 11482] (48968)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2007-07-07
Categories: Nature, Architecture
Camera: Nikon D70s, Sigma 70-300mm APO DG Macro, 58mm UV
Exposure: f/5.6, 1/1500 seconds
Map: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2007-07-16 1:28
Viewed: 488
Points: 20
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Bonsecours Monument Jeanne D'Arc

While finding my way in Rouen I saw this view from a church and an kind of monument. I parked my car near a gas station and took some shots. The sky was full of white vlouds against the blue sky. The high hill was lush and green. I didn't had a clue what it was until I came home and figured out via Google Earth were I was while taking the pictures and what the name of the buildings were. I was quite surprized to find out it was the monument of Jeanne D'Arc, the female French freedom fighter next to the Basilique the Notre Dame of Bonsecours. In [Map:view] you can find the exact location of this beautifol spot.

Regarding the picture, I wished to get this a bit brighter, but with all the adjustments I did this appeared to be the est one. Nevertheless tips and tricks are welcome to improve the image.

Picture taken with a Sigma 70-300mm lens.

u>PP-talk:
Shot in RAW, increased brightness contrast and saturation. AQdjusted curves,sharpened and cropped and resized, converted to JPEG.

Image details:
ISO: 200
Metering: Matrix
Shutter: 1/1500
Aperture: f/5.6
White Balance: Sunlight
Focal Length: 300mm

Jeanne d'Arc
Joan of Arc, or Jeanne d'Arc in French, (1412 – May 30, 1431) is a 15th century national heroine of France. She was beatified in 1909 and canonized as a saint in 1920.

Joan asserted that she had visions from God which told her to recover her homeland from English domination late in the Hundred Years' War. The uncrowned King Charles VII sent her to the siege at Orléans as part of a relief mission. She gained prominence when she overcame the dismissive attitude of veteran commanders and lifted the siege in only nine days. Several more swift victories led to Charles VII's coronation at Reims and settled the disputed succession to the throne.

The renewed French confidence outlasted her own brief career. She refused to leave the field when she was wounded during an attempt to recapture Paris that autumn. Hampered by court intrigues, she led only minor companies from then onward and fell prisoner at a skirmish near Compiègne the following spring. A politically motivated trial convicted her of heresy. The English regent John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford had her burnt at the stake in Rouen. She had been the heroine of her country at the age of seventeen and died at just nineteen. Some twenty-four years later, Pope Callixtus III reopened the case, and a new finding overturned the original conviction. Her piety to the end impressed the retrial court. Pope Benedict XV canonized her on May 16, 1920.

She has remained an important figure in Western culture and many other nations. From Napoleon to the present, French politicians of all leanings have invoked her memory. Major writers and composers who have created works about her include Shakespeare, Voltaire, Schiller, Verdi, Tchaikovsky, Twain, Shaw, Brecht, Anderson, Honegger, Anouilh and Morrissey. Depictions of her continue in film, television, and song. (Text: Wikipedia)
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  • Janice Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3274 W: 267 N: 7753] (33064)
  • [2007-07-16 3:22]

Hi there Hans, those steeples sure look attractive over the trees - such wonderful ornate architecture.
You asked for help: I would like to see more shadows and contrasts I think. It is all a little soft. Sometimes when the whole photo is off, the more you try to 'fix' it, it doesn't work too well.
The composition is good, and I like how the steeples are standing out . . .
Kia ora
Janice

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  • inaam Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 1719 W: 5 N: 389] (1376)
  • [2007-07-16 5:49]

Hello Hans,

Your point of vision is excellent which is providing a charming view of a magnificient architecture having historic values. Nicely composed picture with good luminosity. Well done.

Thanks for sharing this image.

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  • Jens Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 558 W: 52 N: 1139] (4661)
  • [2007-07-16 6:44]

Hi Hans
A very good COMP and a very good POV, I would have loved to se more off the monament behind the treeline.
TFS
Jens.

I love strong women! She was one! nice shot Hans! You seem to be drawn to churches...hmmm....If God can't win you through the ears, maybe he tries to win you through the eyes! B-)
Wonderful! A great place to visit I would imagine!
Linda
B-)

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  • milas Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2733 W: 412 N: 2987] (32833)
  • [2007-07-16 8:31]

merhaba myfriend Hans;
verynice comp...and super captured..selamlar

Viva La France, toch ?
Mooi landscape picture, Hans.
De verschillende groene kleuren doen het goed als voorgrond.
Jan

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  • Ejtaan Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 980 W: 101 N: 2257] (11399)
  • [2007-07-16 14:31]
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Great details here and nice light Hans.
I really love compositions like this. Towers and trees and a lovely sky...
:-) nice one, particularly the shades of green in the trees.

Cheers,
Anneke

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  • Tomek Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1312 W: 47 N: 2919] (16786)
  • [2007-07-16 18:32]

Again superb shot and some piece of history here Hans:)
I like this composition and exposure.
TFS - Tom

Excellent perspective and wonderful colours! Beautiful towers of the cathedral.
Best wishes,
Achim

At least seven cities are known as with the hundred bell-towers in the world of which Rouen, Montréal, Poitiers, Prague, Liège, Troyes, Dijon.
To see this church which overhangs the city, there is a good coast to go up. I remember that when one came to see the fireworks of July 14, we park our car right at side and we sit down in grass until the end, a beautiful panorama on the city.

Approximate translation of a stanza of the poem of Victor Hugo on the Bell-towers of Rouen (Sheets of autumn):

Friends! it's thus Rouen, the city with the old streets,
With the old women towers, remains of the disappeared races,
The city with the hundred bell-towers ringing in the air,
Rouen of the castles, the hotels, of the bastilles, Of which the roughcast face of arrows
and tears needles without delay fogs of the sea...

Un poème de Victor Hugo from Rouen (Les Feuilles d'automne) :

Amis ! c'est donc Rouen, la ville aux vieilles rues,
Aux vieilles tours, débris des races disparues,
La ville aux cent clochers carillonnant dans l'air,
Le Rouen des châteaux, des hôtels, des bastilles,
Dont le front hérissé de flèches et d'aiguilles
Déchire incessamment les brumes de la mer...

I find with your photography, the simple beauty of the elements of architectures in one "jewel-case" of greenery
Corinne

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