moody summer clouds gather over Porte d'Aval and L'Aiguille (Arch of Aval and the Needle), fine art black & white, Étretat, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, Normandy, France

View taken while perched precariously on Porte d'Amont (Arch of Amont) on slippery limestone.

Étretat is best known for its chalk cliffs, including three natural arches and a pointed formation called L'Aiguille or the Needle, which rises 70 metres above the sea. The Etretat Chalk Complex consists of a complex stratigraphy of Turonian and Coniacian chalks. Some of the cliffs are as high as 90 metres. These cliffs and the associated resort beach attracted artists including Eugène Boudin, Gustave Courbetand Claude Monet. They were featured prominently in the 1909 Arsène Lupin novel The Hollow Needle by Maurice Leblanc. They also feature in the 2014 film Lucy, directed by Luc Besson. Two of the three famous arches are visible from the town, the Porte d'Aval, and the Porte d'Amont. The Manneporte is the third and the biggest one, and cannot be seen from the town. The GR 21 long-distance hiking path (Le Havre to Le Tréport) passes through the town. The coast is known as the Pays de Caux Alabaster Coast. Étretat is known for being the last place in France from which the 1927 biplane The White Bird (L'Oiseau Blanc) was seen. French World War I war heroes Charles Nungesser and François Coli were attempting to make the first non-stop flight from Paris to New York City, but after the plane's 8 May 1927 departure, it disappeared somewhere over the Atlantic. It is considered one of the great unexplained mysteries of aviation. A monument to the flight was established in Étretat, but destroyed during World War II, during German occupation. A new and taller monument was constructed in 1963, along with a nearby museum. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Étretat The cliffs of Amont (Falaise d’Amont) north of the town hold the lovely church of La Chapelle Notre Dame de la Garde etretat-normandie.fr/que-visiter/chapelle-notre-dame-de-l... The Gardens of Etretat, Les Jardins d’Etretat are a must visit. The famous actress Madame Thébault created this garden in 1903, inspired by the Impressionist painter, Claude Monet, who himself was a keen gardener. He is the one to whom the garden owes its ambience and originality, faithfully preserved to the present day. At the heart of the natural wonder of Normandy, on the top of the cliff towering along the Alabaster Coast, hides a villa, built in this splendid garden that sprawls across the White Cliffs. Madame Thébault named it Roxelana, in commemoration of the role that had catapulted her to the heights of cinema stardom. Roxelana was the beloved wife of the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. Les Jardins d’Étretat overhang the famous Amont Cliff, which attracts painters from all over the world. It was on the very terraces of Les Jardins d’Étretat that Claude Monet painted his Cliffs at Etretat series, regarded among the greatest works of art ever produced. Alexander Grivko is a landscape architect, a creative power behind Les Jardins d’Étretat. Originally from Russia, he is the art director of the garden design and landscaping company Il Nature with representations in Russia, France and the UK. In 2016, Les Jardins d’Étretat in Normandy was laid out in partnership with a new business associate, collector of contemporary art. It is now the first garden, existing within the planned international network of art gardens open to the public. etretatgarden.fr/en/ and www.france-travel-guide.net/etretat-gardens.html

Taken in: France / Haute-Normandie / Étretat (show map)

Taken on: August 13, 2018

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Camera: Canon EOS 70D, f/8.0, 1/800 sec, 63mm, ISO 250 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS 70D
Lens:	TAMRON 16-300mm F/3.5-6.3 Di II VC PZD B016
Aperture:	f/8.0
Exposure Time:	0.001 sec (1/800)
Focal Length:	63mm
ISO:	250
Exposure Bias:	-4/3 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto bracket
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
Software:	Adobe Photoshop CC 2018 (Macintosh)
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