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This photo (120 x 80 cm) is located at Place des Marroniers.

Épeire fasciée

Maryvonne Boudreault, juillet 2023

The banks of the Dive to the north-east of Oiron, on the borders of Vienne, are home to a multiplicity of insects. Apart from the numerous odonates, from the dragonfly to the damselfly, going round a bush we come acrossdifferent species of spiders like this wasp spider. With its mix of patterns and colors, this spider can deceive its potential prey, but that is not enough to catch them. It adds real know-how to weave a canvas, a true architectural masterpiece.

105 mm macro – f/8 – 1/640 s – 250 ISO

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This photo (120 x 80 cm) is located at Place des Marroniers.

Gendarmes en file indienne

Marie-Claude Cogny, février 2024

We still call him ‘the devil’ or ‘looking for noon’. The European firebug, or ‘gendarme’ in French (Pyrrhocorisapterus), is clearly identifiable by the African mask on its back, but is still just a bug. Very gregarious, it moves on trunks in large groups.

100 mm macro – f/8 – 1/40 s – 800 ISO

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In the bark folds, a strange parade takes place. A troop of gendarmes in single file are carrying out an inspection there. Are they looking for the high spot that they enjoy, or the eggs of other insects to feast on?

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This photo (120 x 80 cm) is located at Place des Marroniers.

Cèdre de l’Atlas

Michèle Lepeintre, mars 2023

In the blink of an eye, one of the four great cedars of the Atlas became mischievous. Venerable and majestic, it shows its shade and invites our senses to contemplation.

The Oiron chateau park has four Atlas cedars, 30 meters high. The planting of these majestic trees dates back to the 1880s and is due to the Fournier de Boisairault family.

Two other cedars, although younger, planted in the 1940s or 1950s, were victims of the 1999 storm.

150 mm – f/4 – 1/320 s – 320 ISO

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This photo (115 x 172 cm) is located at 2, rue Madame de Montespan

Vitraux d’arbres

Isabelle Fortuné, février à novembre 2023

The chateau’s windows of the and their reflections inspired this composition which features the trees of the park. As if observed through a window, their silhouettes unfold in a changing panorama with the seasons.

Assemblage of 6 photographs made using mirrors and colored glasses
105 mm macro – f/5 à f/6,3 – 100 à 320 ISO.

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From the windows of the chateau, a wide variety of plants can be seen, dominated by large trees with majestic branches which lend themselves to a dreamlike gaze through the seasons.

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This photo (150 x 60 cm) is located at impasse de la Grillère.

Nœuds d’arbre

Éric Chabot, septembre 2023

This tree is so twisted that it inspires pain. From its cracked trunk, branches improbably emerge, , and end up forming knots with in tears at the end.

If the weeping Japanese pagoda trees in our parks do indeed come from Japan, they would only have been introduced there a little over a thousand years ago, but would have originated in central China and Korea. In the 18th century we liked to call all trees and plants from the Far East “japonica”.

24 mm – f/9 – 1/30 s – 2500 ISO

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This photo (150 x 60 cm) is located at impasse de la Grillère.

Soleil pleureur

Marie-Claude Cogny, septembre 2023

The weeping Japanese pagoda tree is one of the botanical curiosities of the chateau’s park. The Japanese pagoda tree became fashionable. It adorned parks and walks in Paris, and spread throughout the south of France.

105 mm macro – f/18 – 1/40 s – 2000 ISO

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A sudden fleeting moment, the appearance of the sun through the magnificent crooked branches of the weeping Japanese sophora.

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This photo (120 x 80 cm) is located at Place René Cassin.

Reflets

Madeleine Liaras, février 2023

The Atlas cedars are an inseparable from the chateau’s architecture, to the point that these visions intertwine in the visitor's eye. However, the monumental trees were planted around two centuries after the acquisition of the chateau by Madame de Montespan.

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The colonnades advance, the interior and exterior overlap. Is it a dream, a mirage ? The real mingles with the unreal, giving scope for the imagination.

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This photo (120 x 80 cm) is located at Place des Badauds.

Sauge des prés

Gaëtan Alexandre, mai 2023

Meadow sage is the most common wild sage. It loves limestone soils and can grow up to one metre. Foraging insects, such as bees, bumblebees or butterflies, ensure its reproduction. The plant is clever: when the insect reaches the bottom of a young flower, the stamens tip over and cover it with pollen. By visiting a neighboring flower, the insect will deposit pollen on the pistil of a mature flower.

100 mm macro – f/13 – 1/160 s – 200 ISO

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At the foot of the Saint-Maurice collegiate church, the meadow sage fears neither winter frosts nor the great droughts of summer. It stands stoic, proudly raising her stems with intense blue flowers.

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This photo (80 x 106 cm) is located near the collegiate church, on the wall of the old cemetery.

Marronniers du parc

Bernard Mariteau, novembre 2023

Hovering above the trees, letting your gaze sweep over the landscape, you begin to dream of lightness and freedom. A fascination of the human species, flying retains all its magic and beauty. This drone view offers a unique look at the rows of chestnut trees which populate the space between the chateau moat and the collegiate church.

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As you gain height, the bare chestnut trees of the park offer an explosion of autumnal colors usually reserved for the winged species.

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This photo (80 x 120 cm) is located on Place des Gouffier, opposite the collegiate church.

Gouttes de résine

Madeleine Liaras, février 2023

In the past, cedar was a symbol of strength, dignity and courage. Incense, made from its resin, is said to promote concentration and stimulate intellectual activity. But resin leaks are often a reaction to external aggressions. They are used to expel the attacker and can signal necrosis of the trunk.

100 mm macro – f/2,8 – 1/640 s – 100 ISO

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The cedar is weeping drops of amber. A mysterious treasure hidden in the depths of Nature, the sap overflows, it is life that is springing forth. The richness of materials and the association of flexibility and hardness, are complementary rather than in opposition.

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