Waked up at 6 o’clock this morning of August, I discover the Pointe de la Torche, this cape located on the edge of Brittany, right next to St Guénolé village. I arrive on the beach half an hour before sunrise, which allows me to enjoy a nice cool morning and the early morning light, color so sublime rocks, beach and dunes. The time to install my tripod on the beach, I start with some long exposures, which provide the waves and the foam between the rocks this aspect half-foggy half-enchanting, then as soon as lighting conditions permit poses shorter, which produce images with the same beautiful, in a morning sky still
tinged with pink.
The sun is beginning to the end point of its rays above the horizon, the landscape is already colored with a warm light yellow-orange, and that’s when I decided to photograph a walker well lined up on the beach with the sunrise above.
I continue my walk on the Pointe de la Torche and discovered these little mounds of stone (cairns) that cover hundreds sand and rocks of this tip of the torch, and the balance of which defies gravity so that the Ocean… until the next storm? Maybe… These cairns give to this place a mystical atmosphere and make me think of many legends Celtic… I climb to the 
top of a German bunker, which remains virtually intact there as a reminder of a sad period in our history, that we must never forget. From the top of this block of reinforced concrete I contemplate a superb waterscape and the waves, which lit flush their peak by the first rays of sun came to rest on the beach and the first surfers already starting to go their tops.
Link : Pointe de la Torche viewed on Google Maps
note : this post is partially an automatic translation of the article originally published on my french blog.
