This Oak Tree is located in France, in a Normandie's town called "Allouville-Bellefosse". It is one of the oldest tree in the country, with around 1200 years. Its hollow trunk hosts two chapels, which were built there in 1669: Notre Dame de la Paix ("Our Lady of Peace") and the Chambre de l'Ermite ("Hermit's room"). A spiral staircase around the trunk provides access to the chapels.
As for the photo itself, I do agree that an obvious crop would not include the right wall, nor the left house. However, I wanted to meet the challenge the best I could, and wanted to show some urban related things, hence this angle. As for the distortion, the shot was made with a tilt-shift lens, which is supposedly used to *correct* parallelism problems... but I actually had fun using it the other way: I liked the special atmosphere it gave to the location. It is quite a fun piece of gear!
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Thanks all for the great comments and votes!
In all honesty, I would probably never have found this place if it wasn't for DPC: I love how these challenges open your mind and knowledge to new things.
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This is a truly fantastic location, evoking all kinds of creative thought. Thank you so much for sharing this and the location. If I ever make it to France, this will definitely be a stop for me.
This looks like something out of a twisted novel or painting. Wonderful!! Fully expect to see this on the front page! Wish there was a tighter crop though...the slanty building on the right is very distracting. Nonetheless, a 7 from me.
I imagine this was a tricky thing to shoot. Visually, I don't know how much I like how prominently the building on the right factors into things, but I know if you got much closer to the subject it would lose a lot of sense of what it was.
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