
Saint-Nazaire - West Jetty Quay
Saint-Nazaire (Loire Atlantique), France
December 21 2024, 17:15 UTC (18:15 local)
© 2024 Christian Braut, All Rights Reserved.
On the wall of the 542-metre-long West Pier, which juts out into the estuary, are installed numerous carrelets — large fishing nets with their winches. On the right, you can see the beach of Saint-Nazaire, the seafront, the town, and on the left, the East Pier with the moored tugboats. These two jetties mark the outer harbour leading to the entrance to the south lock and form what is known as the "crab claw". It is one of the accesses to the Chantiers de l'Atlantique, one of the largest sites in the world for building large ships over 300 metres long.
Taken with a Nikon D810 + AF Fisheye-Nikkor 16mm f/2.8D mounted on a Nodal Ninja 3 MkII head. One row of six shots + zenith/nadir. Optimized with Photoshop/Camera Raw, stitched with PTGui and KRPano Tools.