Patrick Courault, a former sailor has known the Channel coasts for twenty-five years. A photograph enthusiast, he goes ail over Norman shores, from Le Tréport to The Mont Saint-Michel, to capture their lights. He has got already published, by Isoète, in collaboration with Didier Decoin, a member of the Académie Goncourt: "Presqu'île de lumière, Rivages du Cotentin." "Voyage au pays de l'Archange, le Mont Saint-Michel", texts by the historian and specialist of Middle-Ages, Régine Pernoud. "La Côtes des Havres, Rivages de Carteret à Granville, les Iles Chausey", in collaboration with the writer Frédéric Lasaygues. "The Channel Islands", the fourth volume of the séries, required three years of land, sea and aerial photographic work.