Mont Saint Michel - France + UK Trip Part 1

[Alpha_7]

Hey everyone, we touched down this morning with more then a few stories to tell, including only 2 days without rain for the entire 5 week trip (frustrating) and our share of dramas at the airport (Heathrow is a joke). Overall we had a great time and I now have the HUGE task of sorting through 20, 737 photos taken over the 5 weeks, please excuse me if I only release them in dribs and drabs as I get the time to sort and PP them.

Close Up of Mont Saint Michel


Mont Saint Michel in the Rain


Mont Saint Michel in the Rain 2


Hill Top Windmill near MSM

[phillipb]

20, 737
Thank God for digital, It would have cost you $7K if you were using film.

Better get cracking, you got a few photos to show us. BTW this is a good start.

[rooboy]

Welcome back Craig, looking forward to lots more pics

I really like the painterly light & colour in #2 - rain hasn't hurt this image at all. The windmill has fantastic colour, but I prefer it as a pano crop without the empty foreground & sky. Nice work, can't wait for more.

[Alpha_7]

Thanks Patrick and Phillip, here is the pano crop you proposed.

[big pix]

nice work craig.......

[BT*ist]

Beautiful shots - the second is magical! (I think I prefer the original crop of the windmill, though both are effective).

[stubbsy]

Welcome back Craig & Katie

20, 737 photos taken over the 5 weeks

OMG And I thought the 6600 I took in 3 weeks in NZ was a lot.

As for the images #2 and #4 (original crop) are superb. Keep up the good work

[methd]

#1 slightly crooked, but damn, i wish i was there

re- pano crop - i'd leave the wheat in the foreground and crop the top out... (sky)

[glamy]

Funny how for your first release you picked something so close to where I used to live, I wish I can go back soon... You sure picked one of the worst Summers The pictures are nice, #3 is my fav.
Cheers,
Gerard

[the foto fanatic]

I love #3 - the original. Good work.

Sounds like you'll have plenty to do at night for a while to come.

[gstark]

Welcome back, Craig and Katie.

#2 is the pick of these for me. You have the composition nailed, with the river occupying the whole of your immediate foreground and providing a beautiful leading line to the chateau.

With the pano crop .... I'd take it even further, and chop some off from the rh side.

[radar]

welcome back Craig,

you are giving us a good taste of what is to come but 20k to process!! Glad it's you

Love the second one, you really nailed it.

cheers,

André

[PiroStitch]

welcome back Craig and Katie! Holy cow! 2nd and 3rd pics are fantastic! Makes it look like the Disney Faraway castle logo. It's just so dreamy

[wendellt]

kick ass craig love the 2nd perfect blue hour timing

[Alex]

Welcome back, Craig!

No. 2 and the last are fantastic!

Alex

[Oscar]

Welcome back Katie and Craig. Looks like you saw some wonderful sights.

#4 and then equally #2/#3 are my picks here.

Cheers, Mick

[Kris]

Ahoy! Great stuff craig, wish I saw that castle whilst I was there.. cant wait to see more

[ozimax]

Incredible photos of the castle, please don't put all the photos in one post, maybe 10,000 in one and 10,000 in another will do...

[virgal_tracy]

No. 2 for me also. A real fairytale quality.

My first look at the crop pano had me convinced there was a couple kissing on the rh side of the picture. Alas it was only the light stand.

[wile_E]

#2 here for me too. Fantastic shot.

And good luck with PP'ing 20k worth of images...!! Here I am procrastinating over 200...!!

[Glen]

Great images, really nice. Welcome back Craig and Katie. Craig do you realise that is 592 images a day, or 24.68 an hour based on 24 hours. You took an image every two minutes you were away, sleeping or not! Impressive.

[Reschsmooth]

Great photos Craig. I love the 2nd - awesome comp as Gary said, and the lighting is really good.

Cheers

[Trieu]

Wow..... love the 2nd pic Craig.

Buildings over there are so nice to capture aren't they? Post some more of your shots mate

[Alpha_7]

Incredible photos of the castle, please don't put all the photos in one post, maybe 10,000 in one and 10,000 in another will do...

But Max I'm limited to 4 a post, so it will have to be 5000 odd posts, and well I think my post count is high enough without it ballooning out more.

I'm going to be *very* selective with what I post. I do have some I'm really happy with but I don't want to flood the forum so I'm planning on slowly releasing them as I work through the shots.


Glen - Some great stats there, a shot every 2 minutes is pretty bloody amazing, scary too. And that is only on the D200, I was shooting on Katie's Canon as well, shucks...

[Katie G]

Hello all - its great to be home.

One thing i thought i should mention about these pics that Craig left out was that they were taken at 11pm in the pouring rain ( i stayed in the car ) after he trecked through a sheep paddock and over where the water should have been!!!! after all that if they had been crap i would have been mighty pissed off!!!!!!!!

[rokkstar]

Craig mate, I like number 2 the best but perhaps it's a little too HDR? Seems a touch light on my monitor.

glad you enjoyed Heathrow mate, I've got that to look forward to on Sunday.

[gstark]

glad you enjoyed Heathrow mate, I've got that to look forward to on Sunday.

Coming back ??

[Alpha_7]

glad you enjoyed Heathrow mate, I've got that to look forward to on Sunday.

Coming back ??

Sadly all the convincing from Katie and I didn't work he visiting a far warmer climate then Sydney right now.

[gstark]

Sadly all the convincing from Katie and I didn't work he visiting a far warmer climate then Sydney right now.

With this morning's temperatures being the coldest in 18 years, that wouldn't be too tough an ask.

[Cre8tivepixels]

The 2nd and 4th ones are AMAZING.......well done, just great shots.....the 2nd reminds me of some mythical Disneyland image.....

[Shoegal]

Beautiful. #2 is something from a fantasy and I really like the pano crop of the windmill. I'm very new to photography and it's a wonder how much the crop changes the feel of the photo. Thank you for sharing.

[Glen]

Without intruding on Craig's thread, Welcome Shoegal. With a name like that it sounds if you already have one expensive hobby