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Little Britain

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A military monument at Cap de la Chèvre on the Crozon peninsula in Brittany, France
A military monument at Cap de la Chèvre on the Crozon peninsula in Brittany, France (click to view full size)

Believe it or not, ‘Little Britain’ is one of the many names given to the French region of Brittany. This ties in with the French name for it, ‘Bretagne’, as compared to their name for Great Britain, ‘Grand Bretagne’. Settled by migrants from Cornwall and other Celtic regions of the British Isles, Brittany has its own distinct identity and even has its own language, Breton (or Brezoneg) which is very similar to Cornish.

I recently visited on a family holiday, staying in the region known as ‘Cornouaille’ in the south west of Brittany, near the city of Quimper. Some photos are online on my site, and all are available to buy as prints. Please feel free to have a browse by clicking here.

Time lapse experiments

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I’ve been playing with a new interval timer to make some experimental time-lapse videos. I’m planning on using what I’ve learned to get some footage from Iceland when I go later this month. Here are the results of the initial experiments:

Clouds 1 from Nick Miners on Vimeo.

Clouds 2 from Nick Miners on Vimeo.

The first was shot at 1 second intervals, and the second at 3 seconds. I was rather pleasantly surprised by the plane that flew overhead during the second sequence of images.