Saintes is a Roman city and there are still lots of Roman artifacts and architecture to be seen - the most spectacular is this arch. It was built in 18-19 AD to mark the completion of the Via Appia connecting Saintes to Lyon. Saintes was a very important Roman city with a population in excess of 15000. Not too shabby for a 2000 year old construction!
@brigette What gets me with this one is that Jesus was a young man when this was built and had yet to perform his first miracle - turning water into wine at the wedding feast in Cana.
The converging verticals are just fine. Avoidance of them is no more than a convention borrowed from painting when photography was in its infancy and wanting to be taken seriously as an art form. I'm a sucker for straightening them but doing so can create a disturbing effect because we are accustomed to seeing real verticals converging. I think you knew all this which is why you decided that it wasn't worth taking that step backwards! :-)
September 21st, 2019
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Katharine