Sublime Seascapes
Illuminations Atlanterhavet is the title of Trudi Jaeger’s on-going project on vulnerable and threatened landscapes connected to the North Sea and facing the Atlantic Ocean.
As part of this project she has explored Tenerife, Bretagne, Jæren and different stretches of the Norwegian coast. The photographs below is from a journey Trudi Jaeger made to Bretagne (Brittany) in 2017.
Pleneuf Val André – Côte de Penthièvre is a part of the northern coast of Brittany between Cap Fréhel in the east and Pointe de Pléneuf in the west, marking the eastern part of the bay of Saint-Brieuc in the Côtes-d 'Armor. Grandiose landscapes, spectacular cliffs. A hilly peninsula extending out toward the Atlantic Ocean.
Pleneuf Val André – Cöte de Penthièvre (Agricultural Pollution).
Pleneuf Val André – Cöte de Penthièvre (Agricultural Pollution).
Pleneuf Val André – Cöte de Penthièvre (Agricultural Pollution).
Bretagne (Oyster Farming).
Jospinet. Pleneuf Val André – Cöte de Penthièvre.
Bretagne
Agricultural Pollution
For decades, potentially lethal green algae have amassed in shallow bays on Brittany’s beautiful north-western coast. Environmentalists say the blossoming of unusually large amounts of green algae are linked to nitrates in fertilisers and waste from the region’s intensive pig, poultry and dairy farming flowing into the river system and entering the sea. When the algae decompose, pockets of toxic gas (hyrogen sulfide) get trapped under its crust — potentially fatal to humans if they step on it.
Hillion, near the bay of Saint-Brieuc, one of the coastal villages I explored in 2017, was one of several Brittany beaches which were closed in 2019 because of a mass of dangerous seaweed.