Port Tudy, the main harbor of the island of Groix
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Port Tudy, the main harbor of the island of Groix |
Last June, I wrote a vignette about a man whose portrait I shot in 1976 while spending a week on the island of Groix off the southern coast of Brittany. This prompted me to take a look at my slides from back then. I scanned a few of them with my CanoScan 9000F flatbed scanner at a resolution of 9600 dpi using SilverFast software from LaserSoft Imaging. The resulting TIFF files were quite large, between 400 and 500 megabytes per slide, and they had to be cleaned up: despite having been stored with care, the originals had gathered quite a bit of dust over the years. The SilverFast software removed some dust and spots during the scanning phase, but I had to clean up most of the damage by hand in Adobe Photoshop CC. The processed images were then resized and converted to JPEGs using the same software. I chose a subset of the finished slides to display on this page.
These photographs were all taken with a Minolta SR-T-303 camera on Kodachrome 25 slide film during the summer of 1976. At the time, I had three Minolta Rokkor prime lenses: the 28mm ƒ/3.5, the 50mm ƒ/1.7, and the 135mm ƒ/3.5. In the absence of EXIF data, it is not always possible for me to determine which lens was used for which photograph; for the same reason, no technical details (shutter speed, aperture, etc.) can be provided.
In November of 2020, when this page was originally published, the images shown had been taken more than 44 years earlier with a camera that was well over 46 years old. What I find even more amazing is that I still use this same camera occasionally! I began shooting with it again in early 2018, and a description of what that was like is provided on this page.
The island of Groix is a truly magnificent place that is well worth a visit. Sadly, I haven't been back since these pictures were taken, though I plan to revisit someday. Fortunately, you don't have to wait for that to see more recent photographs of Groix: Flore, a young lady from Brittany, has made a wonderful web site dedicated to the island. I strongly encourage you to visit her Discover Groix pages!
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The ferry to Groix, docked in Lorient |
Port Tudy at low tide |
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Overall view of Port Tudy in the evening light |
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One of several small town beaches west of the harbor |
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The small harbor of Locmaria at low tide |
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The cargo ship Sanaga ran aground near Locmaria on March 28, 1971 |
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Plage des Sables Rouges, a beach on the east end of the island |
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The guardian |
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Entering a village |
Old and new side by side |
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Even away from the sea near the center of the island there are scenic views |
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Looking towards the Pointe des Chats lighthouse in the far distance |
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Near Pen Men on the western end of the island |
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The craggy southern coast of Groix |
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On the southern shore |
Le trou de l'enfer (The Hole of Hell) |
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It's a long way down... |
There are many thistles on Groix |
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The relentless Atlantic Ocean pounds the island's southern coast |
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On one of my many hikes |
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A barren, almost desolate landscape |
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The view from the top of a cliff |
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Things look different closer to the water |
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Back in Port Tudy |
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Looking towards the harbor entrance |
Portrait of Loïc |
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A sloop with a rust-colored main sail |
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Evening light in Groix |
The photos on this page were taken during a week in July of 1976 on the island of Groix (Brittany, France).
These pictures and a few others may also bee viewed in a Gallery or as a
Slide Show.
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