Pyrenees
Pau, the Ossau Valley and the Pyrénées-Atlantiques. 47 photos
About this gallery
This gallery covers the Pyrénées-Atlantiques around Pau and the Ossau Valley, moving between mountains, farmland and forest floor. In the distance, the Pic de Ger stands out beyond hazy foothills; closer in, villages nestled in the valley appear under shifting skies, and the rooftops of Pau are seen from a hillside in the late-afternoon haze. Around Buzy, the village church, a dolmen photographed in black and white, horses and a Blonde d'Aquitaine cow at pasture tell of life in this rural foothill country, bordered by wooden fences and old stone barns.
A good part of the gallery turns toward the forest floor: moss, lichen, ferns, a log wrapped in ivy, rusty barbed wire coiled around a rock, eroded stone, shot in close-up and often in soft bokeh. Two portraits of a Border Collie, nose in the foliage, and red roses in a garden round out this more intimate side.
The gallery also includes the waymarks, trails and church stops of the Way of St James, which crosses the region between Pau and the Ossau Valley. These royalty-free photos suit stories about mountains, rural life, hiking or a travel journal in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques, and every one of them can be downloaded from Pexels at no cost.