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Every country Liz and I have visited has had a few unique visual identifiers that immediately let you know where you are, even if you can't see anything else.
For me then, old window shutters with peeling blue paint invariably mean I'm somewhere in France, which is why I'll photograph them at every opportunity.
This particular example is to be found in the back streets of Honfleur, on the Normandy coast.
As pretty a town as you could wish to see, and generously equipped with the previously mentioned old, peeling, blue painted window shutters.
Filename - normandy honfleur shutter 01.jpg
Camera - Nikon D3100
Lens - 18-55mm zoom @ 55mm
Exposure - 1/125sec @ f8, ISO200
Location - Honfleur, Normandy, France
This image - 800x533px JPEG
Conversion - ACR & PS-CS2
Comments - Lens stabilisation speed used to prevent camera blur with hand held exposure.
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