An image taken west of the mid-town bridge of Saint-Savinien in the Charente Maritime, SW France. It is mid-morning and the light is obliquely crossing the scene, right to left, an easterly view which rises from the surface of the water to a high point behind where wine vats are high on a hill. It seems chilly and the almost monotone effect of oncoming winter lends a sense of neglect to the view. Boats idle against the banks, forgotten for a few months until spring comes...

THE BOATS DISCUSS WINTER
Mid-morning in Saint-Savinien. The visitors have gone, and the boats have the river Charente to themselves. They'll collect leaves and weeds till the spring, and then they'll putter upstream to Saintes and back again.
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An misty morning on the river Charente at Saint Savinien, in the Charente Maritime, SW France. Golds, yellows and orange swirl in an ethereal haze across the calm water, with scrub and small trees providing a backdrop on the far bank. There is a blue sky and a promise of a fine day ahead.

IF TURNER HAD OWNED A CAMERA
When you go to buy a baguette and dawn gifts you a sunrise...I kept expecting the fighting Temeraire to push into sight, her rigging bare and the faint call of the leadsman in the bow.
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A black and white photograph showing a river with mist rising across the calm surface. Reflective trees on the right-hand side point into the white nothingness. The water is so calm there is not a ripple. Faintly, on the left, another bank looks distantly through the mist.

THE RIVER IN HIBERNATION
The silver morning
Rises, branches soaring
Fingers reach skywards
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