You know the ol' saying that "a picture is worth a thousand words," right?
Right. I thought so. Well, Colossal just provided us with today's example of that idiom's veracity. ...OK, so make that "Colossal and Paris-based photographer, Loïc Lagarde." (Be sure to check out the rest of his photographs. They're just as stunning as this one would suggest.)
Last week while visiting Le Mont-Saint-Michel in Normandy, photographer Loïc Lagarde captured this awesome view of the tidal island at night with the Milky Way spanning the sky above, further highlighting the near fairy-tale nature of the historic landmark.
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Lagarde says the photo was made without multiple exposures or blending and is a ‘true’ representation of the moment.
Attribution(s): "Mont Saint-Michel under the Milky Way" is the property of Loïc Lagarde, who made his work available via a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) license.