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<blockquote data-quote="Blue439" data-source="post: 822921" data-attributes="member: 53455">Today’s photo shows a scenic part of coastal France, near the city of Marseilles on the Mediterranean: the “Calanques” area. Calanques, in the Provençal language, are narrow and deep inlets carved by the sea in and around soft limestone cliffs. The calanques are usually difficult to access by land and best visited from the sea. Tours are organized, but you can also rent sea-going kayaks like those people did, to explore with friends or on your own.I will post a couple more photos of the calanques in the coming days, so that you can have a better idea of what they look like.There are no converging verticals in this photograph and the perspective was respected. The cliffs are naturally pyramid-shaped.Photo taken in September 2008. Nikon D3, Nikkor 24-70mm, ƒ/2.8 G lens, handheld.[ATTACH=full]408964[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Blue439, post: 822921, member: 53455"] Today’s photo shows a scenic part of coastal France, near the city of Marseilles on the Mediterranean: the “Calanques” area. [I]Calanques,[/I] in the Provençal language, are narrow and deep inlets carved by the sea in and around soft limestone cliffs. The [I]calanques[/I] are usually difficult to access by land and best visited from the sea. Tours are organized, but you can also rent sea-going kayaks like those people did, to explore with friends or on your own. I will post a couple more photos of the [I]calanques[/I] in the coming days, so that you can have a better idea of what they look like. There are no converging verticals in this photograph and the perspective was respected. The cliffs are naturally pyramid-shaped. Photo taken in September 2008. Nikon D3, Nikkor 24-70mm, ƒ/2.8 G lens, handheld. [ATTACH type="full"]408964[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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