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Near the Tour Royale Museum at the Pointe de la Mitre in Toulon is the national memorial to the 1667 submariners killed on active duty serving in the French Navy.  The memorial was inaugurated on the 28 November 2009 by M. Hubert Falco, Secretary of STate for Defence and Veterans.  A submarine's conning tower rises 6.5 metres from the ground and in front is a statue of a woman and child, representing the families who were left to grieve. This monumental work is the work of Olivier Détroyat, architecte urbaniste and Gérard Vié, sculpteur officiel des armées. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE SUPPORT THIS BLOG BY CLICKING THE GOOGLE ADVERTS It doesn't cost you anything to click on an advert but we get a small fee for every click thru from Google and this helps support this blog - thank you for helping -------------------------------------------------------------------------...

You may have noticed that a lot of the photography I have been posting in the past few weeks has been taken at night.  I love this form of images, the city lights and long exposures produce a very different image when compared to the same scene taken during daylight.  One of the reasons for my use of night photography recently has come from necessity because I have spent the last three weeks on the road working in Hungary, Texas and Le Castellet and by the time I have finished my work in the media centre the sun has set.   This shot ofToulon was taken using a 4.3s shutter speed at an aperature of f4 with the ISO set to 200. These two images on this page were taken yesterday evening.  The first (above) is of the Toulon harbour front and the second (below) is of the hilltop town of La Cadiere D'Azur near to La Castellet.   Both images were taken using long exposures on the Fuji X100 and long exposures mean using a steady...

I decided to visit Toulon yesterday evening to get a break away from the race track at Paul Ricard.  I headed there principally to see the Tall Ships that were resident in the city this month but with no where to park I headed out to the Tour Royale overlooking the entrance of Toulon Harbour. The Tour Royale (also known as La Grosse Tour) is a fort built in the 16th century to protect the entrance of the Petit Rade, the naval port of Toulon. It was the first fortification of the harbor, built 22 years after Provence became a part of France.  The fort was commissioned in 1513 by King Louis XII at the request of the bishop of Toulon and of the Senechal of Provence. It was placed on the cap de la Manegue, at the end of the pointe de la Mitre, where it could fire at any ships coming into the Rade. After a long and bloody history, Tour Royale became a museum in 2004, and in 2006, it was transferred from the Ministry of Defense to the city of Toulon. an...