Normandy

Trip to the WWII sites in Normandy, France 28-30 May 2011. Stops included the D-day museum, the Airborne Museum, Iron Mike statue, the American sectors of Utah and Omaha beaches, the Canadian Sector on Juno beach and Point du Hoc, and most humbling of all, the American cemetary - Colleville, with its 9,386 American Soldiers both known and unknown resting here, located just off of Omaha beach, . For those who watched Band of Brothers, we did pass by Brecourt Manor several times, no stops, but wasn't anything there worth photographing.

The Abbey du Mont St. Michel, built sometime in the 8th Century. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mont_Saint-Michel
Abbey du Mont St. Michel
From the parking lot, image of the Abbey du Mont St. Michel
during high tide, water would cover a natural bridge making the Abbey and Island.
Different angle of the Abbey
I am not sure exactly how this Abbey was laid out since everything was in French. This is a church, and it seemed like every other room I went into was a church. I am not sure if they were all one or if they were different.
View on top
Architecture feature of part of the abbey.
On top looking straight down.
Panorama view from atop the abbey...not much of a landscape. During high tide there would be water.
Second of a series of images I was going to stitch together to make a panoramic, but there wasn't much to look at so I didn't.
Third image of a failed panorama. For photographer nuts, I usually don't follow the rule of thirds. i just so happen to like my horizon in the middle, because, well, that's how I see it. Besides, the clouds didn't offer much to look at, nor did the ground.
Another area on top of the abbey, perhaps a look out area?
Pretty much the same image as before with out the people's heads chopped off from cropping.
Inside a church at the abbey.
Same church, no people in the foreground.
Same church, little bit of a different angle.
Different church
Out side between buildings.
Courtyard/garden at the abbey.
Finished with the tour, this is from street level looking up
Same as previous two, but showing a more modern building on the left.
Another view of the Abbey du Mt. St. Michel in the Normandy region of France. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mont_Saint-Michel
Steeples... and a bird. Amazingly I have a number of images with birds flying thru them...some intentional, some by pure luck.
Steeple on top of the abbey
More detailed image
Another court yard image...not sure how my images posted out of order.
Another view of the abbey looking towards the horizon
Low angle courtyard image