The viaduct and the old bridge, a photo from Bretagne, West

Photographer's Note

The Viaduct on the Rance
In the nineteenth century, the port gradually lost its importance with the construction of a road bridge which opened up the city in 1852, and with the arrival of the railway in 1879. The city sees the building of many impressive homes and gradually transformed into destination resorts, especially popular with the British.
Despite a fire in 1907 destroyed five houses in timber, and a bombing in August 1944, the city remained presqu'intacte since the beginning of the twentieth century. On the night of 6 to 7 June 2007, a small portion of the wall surrounding the city collapsed and require further consolidation work.
Today, the city has largely restored its heritage. Half-timbered houses still lining up Cordeliers, rue de l'Horloge, the famous street of Jerzual and other paved surfaces of the center. The church Saint-Sauveur and Saint-Malo rise amid the old parishes of the city.
Very touristy, the town was the setting in several scenes of the film Armageddon Michael Bay (1998), during the passage of the asteroid over the France just before it crashed in Paris.
Dinan beyond today's walls and extends to common Léhon, Quévert, and Taden Lanvallay.
(Wikipedia)

The old bridge of Dinan
The old stone bridge that makes the charm of the little port has almost completely changed in appearance in 1923. It included previously 3 arches, one of wood was found to allow the passage of many vessels traveling between the inland and sea barges carrying mostly wooden barges were loaded with sand, but many vessels allowed to export the paintings that were the result of the most important crafts of the city: about 1 500 weavers were still the main resource in the early 19th century.
To enable the upstream passage, the old bridge was equipped with a wooden walkway, raised for the occasion.
Some boats did a temporary halt, loading or unloading of goods further ... After a bowl of cider or back stronger soon served in one of the bars of the port, the sailors became boatmen continued their journey upstream ...
After its destruction, the old structure has not been reconstituted such that at the origin: it now has more than 2 arches, more suited to gauge the current boats.
( valderance.fr)

Panoramic view taken from the old bridge

Theme : Dinan

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delpeoples (60326) 2010-02-09 3:46

Salut Valerie, la symétrie de ces arcs en combinaison avec les réflexions font de cette composition d'une grande beauté. Les conditions de luminosité sont difficiles, mais vous les avez surmontés facilement. Joli travail, merci pour le partage et une belle journée, Lisa

carlosmarin (11954) 2010-02-09 4:17

Bonjour Valerie,
Une trčs jolie composition du viaduc et le pont vieux.
Avec la lumičre grise de l'hiver.
Les belles réflexions du pont dans la rivičre.
Un bon travail.
Amitiés,
Carlos

Nicou (193806) 2010-02-09 4:20

Hellol

quel graphisme entre le viaduc et le pont, génail effet de diagonales, avec les reflet sur l'eau, ces beaux arches, trčs belle compo.

Bravo et amitié

Nicou

Budapestman (82620) 2010-02-09 4:21

Hi Valerie,
the viaduct becoming higher behind the buildings is a really imposing sight, you selected a very good optic angle to the photo, the reflection is beautiful likewise on the river. Beautiful and spectacular photo, Tfs! Have a nice day!
George

ikeharel (107117) 2010-02-09 8:31

An excelent idea with the panoramic-view and very impressive Viaduct.
ike

kastanaras (1160) 2010-02-09 9:42

Hi Valerie,
Excellent composition and frame.
magnificent stone bridge and a very good reflection.
Very nice colors.
Very good management of light and excellent sharpness.

To greet,
Dimitris

Cretense (68709) 2010-02-09 10:29

Hello Valerie!

Excellent architectonic photo, beautiful stone "complex", the bridge, the acueduct, the house! Excellent composition and framing!

Hercules

TopGeo (38220) 2010-02-09 11:46

Hi Valerie,
Excellent composition and frame view and very impressive the reflection is beautiful likewise on the river Beautiful and spectacular photo, Tfs! Have a nice day!
Georgios

gilou530 (34) 2010-02-09 13:07

salut valérie
un bon POV de ces ponts aux vieilles pierres, dommage le ciel ne t'aide pas beaucoup mais la netteté y est, bon boulot
amitiés
gilbert

quillo (11858) 2010-02-09 14:07

♥

Hola amiga Valerie ---->

Difficult the control of the light when
the sky has so much force, but the contrast with
the viaduct and the bridge,
they do of your photo a good work
of color and framing.

Un abrazo y feliz noche.

♥

Didi (61589) 2010-02-09 16:15

Bonjour Valérie
La prochaine fois que je visiterai Dinan, je tâcherai de photographier le viaduc ŕ partir du point dominant sur la ville, je l'avais repéré mais le ciel était trop morose.
T'as de la chance d'habiter pas trop loin de cette belle région.
Je n'arrive pas ŕ définir si le ciel était voilé, l'exposition influencée par l'avant-plan a donné ce ciel plus clair.
Je me suis permis un WS.
Amitiés

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fabianoleite (13575) 2010-02-09 17:39

Hi, Valerie. The shapes of the arches are very good, and so is the texture. Good reflections on the water. Congratulations!

ymrk (15099) 2010-02-10 8:14

Dear Valerie,
Generally,i've liked the your approach to this capture.But,you couuld most blacken the sky than this sight.But,i said at shortly before ,succesful photograph and angle for take..Regards,

Yağmur

Clementi (52514) 2010-02-11 12:41

Ciao Valerie,
un se succéder d'arcs ponts et viaducs, avec ces maisons de la trčs belle architecture, trčs belle cette image me plaît.
Giorgio

Ricx (13495) 2010-02-11 13:10

Hi Valerie, This is such a great photo.. To get both a viaduct and a bridge into the same image.. just the sort of image I would love to shoot. Well captured, nice and sharp and well composed and cropped. Thanks for the useful note. TFS.. Rich

Graal (103040) 2010-02-11 23:43

Bonjour Valerie,
an interesting place. Amazing old constructions. Fine sight of bridge and viaduct. Good note and presentation. I like it.
Gr., Aleksander

mkamionka (63554) 2010-02-12 2:00

Hi Valerie,
I like this place it is amazing. You caught two bridges with one shot. The composition is great again.
Although again this is the type of weather when I would probably leave my camera at home, I just dont like the white sky. I think I can really feel the sad cold overcast atmosphere from your photo.
Have a good weekend,
M

AKITA (15125) 2010-02-15 17:20

dear Valérie,
wow,
double arch bridges are splendidly combined in one view,
back long and wide arch bridge makes the open back stage, and fore flat bridge looks the forestage,
old stones show me tasteful colors and river water is still and settled,
thank you for your wonderful shot,
Akihisa