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Etretat - France : Wonderfull cliffs. Thanks for looking !

The texture in the water and on the cliffside is just spot on. Very good picture in my opinion although it is just a bit empty somehow. Good good nevertheless.

I don't know about you ... but if you look closely, you can see evidence that half way up the cliffs, there were a certain # of layers in place and it looks like there's a point of demarkation where it looks like another layer of sedimentation settled into a crest in the lower layers, and then layer upon layer upon those previously there. What do you think ? Could this cliff have been formed by high flood waters ? I love photos with a story !!!! It's amazing what a person can learn from such pictures which are worth a thousand words !!

Ok, the sea and the cliff are well captured (maybe losing some at top left?). Seeing that amount of empty space at left is unusual, but worth of thinking about. You get a nice view if you crop to get 1/3 of sea and 2/3 of cliff, but in this way I miss the horizontal feeling of the picture and that strange concentrical shape of the ripples. The lack of known-size elements gives a bizarre mood, as if this were another planet or an artificial 3-D image.

 

I wonder if the figure at the top of the cliffs works in another way (I do think so) when viewed in a really huge version.

 

For Allan: these layers are true sedimentation layers, althought perhaps not in a year-by-year basis, but in more long terms.

Notice where the lighter colored lower two thirds of the cliff has a concave bowl shaped upper layer, in which a much darker series of sedimentary layers have pooled. It's almost as though the lower layer had hardened before the next layer started pooling there, again almost as though sedimentation had settled out of coursing silt laiden water rifting back and forth over the lighter colored layers. Having studied sedimentation after floods, I see quite a remarkable story painted in this photo.