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I visited the village of Dinan in Brittany 100 years after my Grandmother and Great Grandmother left the village for Canada. It was a wonderful connection to walk the streets she had walked.
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A beautiful image. I assume you did this in post? And I love the way you “connected” the word prompt with your photo!
Well, it pays to read the comments first. I agree that you were very successful with your processing!
And it pays to read all YOUR comments before responding 😉 I’m glad you liked it, perhaps I’m over-critical.
Hi Emilio and thank you. I’m not over enthused about my processing on this one – I don’t think it stands up to scrutiny very well but I do think it suggests what I was trying to convey of the present meeting the past. I appreciate your visit and comment.
Great processing here, it really gives it a feel of stepping back in time. I love visiting place that my relatives have lived (being a hobbyist genealogist myself), picturing what it must have been like when they walked around places.
I wasn’t too sure about the processing so thank you Karen. And indeed it was MOST interesting because so much of the village is at it was, except the viaduct that was new when she was there is now 100 years old. Her brother’s school is still there off the square.
This just gives me goosebumps, Lynne! What an incredibly wonderful experience for you (and lovely picture to boot!).
Dinan is a really interesting village and we spent two weeks there. On that trip we also found the grave of my 3x great grandparents and that was an experience. It hadn’t set out to be a genealogical trip – in fact we hadn’t known my great grandmother had lived in Dinan until after we had booked our old fisherman’s cottage by the river.
This is really wonderful, Lynne!
🙂 🙂
I like your processing of this image, to me it gives a wistful air….
That’s what I was trying for – thanks, Sue I wasn’t sure how successful it was.
Well, I think you succeeded! 😀