La Cite, Carcassonne, La Région Languedoc-Roussilon, France. 15-5-2006.

The fortified town of Carcassonne and its dream-like silhouette need no introduction. The city's role in Cathar history, and especially the Albigensian Crusade during which over 200,000 people died, is equally famous. Cité de Carcassonne is popular enough to have regular flight connections with Dublin, Shannon, Stansted, Liverpool, East Midlands and Charleroi despite the town's small size.

I shot this in crazy wind and miserably overcast weather. It was hard to get a view above the trees and I had to clone out some protruding branches.

Canon EOS 33, Canon EF 70-200/4L USM, 1/90 sec @ f/8, Fujichrome Provia 100F, 81B, Three-stop GND