Back from one week in Brittany (Bretagne) - but let's start with a photo, taken just over the 'border' in Normandy.

Mont Saint-Michel during the blue hour.

I didn't want the standard shot from the bridge (where some heavy construction takes place right now anyway), so we found a place where the mont would seem to rise out of the grass.

Despite being attacked by very nasty mosquitos, I shot several different photos, so more to come...

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Still roaming the archives... Another one with only VSCO film simulation applied. Really like the colors this is producing...

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The Colosseum of El Djem is the third largest Colosseum in the world, only surpassed by the ones in Rome and Capua (ruined).

It was capable of seating 35,000 spectators (50,000 in Rome).

Until the 17th century it remained more or less whole. From then on its stones were used for building the nearby village of El Djem and transported to the Great Mosque in Kairouan, and at a tense moment during struggles with the Ottomans, the Turks used cannons to flush rebels out of the amphitheatre.
The ruins of the amphitheatre were declared a World Heritage Site in 1979.

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No processing, except Fuji Velvia 50 VSCO LightRoom Preset

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