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Seagulls at Phare du Chenal du Four, Finistére, France

This is precisely the shot I had wanted: gulls rising in front of the Phare du Four. After a day long "photo hike" on the magic Presqu'ile Saint Laurent in Porspoder, we took our time and waited. This is the light tower missed by the infamous Amoco Cadiz on March 16, 1978, resulting in the as yet worst tanker accident ever, spilling 6 times as much oil into the coastal waters of Brittany as the Exxon Valdez did in Alaska 9 years later. Interestingly the picture was not taken with my EOS but my new little point-and-shoot powershot that I had bought mainly for underwater photography.

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Uploaded on September 12, 2011
Taken on August 1, 2011