Life’s an ocean with too much commotion

In the beginning of may, we went on a trip to Morbihan, located in the south of Bretagne. We’ve booked a
chambre d’hôtes on Presqu’île de Rhuys, a peninsula in Morbihan. Of course I took a lot of pictures on the trip Actually, this HDR picture of Mont Saint-Michel was taken on our way back to Belgium.

Except for the abbey, which you really can’t miss, there’s nothing to see there. The city/village Avranches is full of tourists, so our visit was very short

There’s a small road heading for the abbey and at the end of that road, there’s a huge parking lot. As a reference, this picture has been taken at the right side of the abbey. I tried to avoid the touristic flood, took my car and try to see the left side of the abbey. It’s hard to get there because there are no roads heading that direction. Of course this was no challenge for me and I got there anyway. On a certain spot at the left side, their was a farmer who was organizing guided tours of a panoramic view around the abbey. He told me that, in ten years, there will be no water around the abbey anymore, due to the sand that is constantly being put off on the small road. To avoid that, they will break up the road and build a viaduct, so that the water, in the rising tide, can flow beneath the viaduct. They will also build a dam, which they can open so that a massive flood of water will wipe all the sand away again. Originally, when the abbey was built, the environment was full of trees, not water. Some natural reaction caused the area to be flood by water. That’s all I could remember of our little conversation

The HDR picture was merged by three pictures of different exposures. I used qtfpsgui to merge them and do some tone mapping.