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Happy Easter to you all, in spite of the Pope’s passing on this fateful day.

Thank you, Needa. I'm sort of back, for now. :oops:

The “Old Saint Vincent” in Mâcon, Burgundy (2023) The “Old Saint Vincent”, as it is known today, is the original cathedral church of the city of Mâcon in Burgundy. Built mostly between 1000 and 1050, it is a very old and venerable monument. The cathedral was destroyed towards the end of the...

An English landscape at Christmas (2022) Nikon Z7 II, Nikkor Z 24-120mm, ƒ/4 S lens, handheld.

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Sardinia, Summer 2018 Chiesa campestre of Nostra Signora di Cabbu Abbas. Nikon D850, Nikkor 35mm, ƒ/1.4 G lens, handheld.

[Sorry for not posting anything over the past few days. I'm experiencing a difficult personal time. Thank you] A patriotic test (2017) December 2017: I had just bought my new Nikon D850 and took it out for a test run around my little town. Nikon D850, Carl Zeiss Apo-Sonnar T* 135mm, ƒ/2 ZF.2...

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The castle chapel of Saint–Ilpize (2015) Saint–Ilpize is a very small village in the province of Auvergne (central France). On a high hilltop, a castle was built and recorded as early as 1030; only ruins remain visible today. Within the sheet wall, a chapel was built around the same time, then...

“I gift you with this church” (2021) Religious sculpture during the Romanesque Age (1000–1200) sometimes features a motif in which you see a wealthy patron presenting a cleric with a sort of small-sized replica of a church, thus symbolizing that the patron in question had paid for the...

A watch ready to sail (2020) My Citizen watch propped up against the background of Au large, a technical and practical sailing handbook by Alain Gliksman. Published in 1967, this was the first such large book I ever bought, maybe a year or two after it came out. I was just a young boy learning...

Structurally unstable (circa 2010) Perrache railway station, Lyon, France. Nikon D3, Nikkor 70-200mm, ƒ/2.8 G VR lens, handheld.

The Louvre in the Spring (2018) In 1700, the French Crown jewels were the largest collection of jewellery and gold-crafting masterpieces in the world. Less than a century after that, most of it were stolen and dispersed, mostly via England and The Netherlands, during the French Revolution, The...

Flowers in May (2018) The “Central Park of Lyon” (or Presidio, for those of you guys nearer the West Coast) features a very nice botanical garden which is a very good place to practice a bit of flower photography. Nikon D850, Micro-Nikkor 60mm, ƒ/2.8 D macro lens, handheld. Natural light...

Lifestyle (2018) Composition organized for a themed challenge (“Lifestyle”) of a tabletop photography group on Flickr. Nikon Z7, Z 35mm f/1.8 S lens. Gitzo GT3543 XLS tripod with Arca–Swiss Cube C1 geared head. Multi-flash lighting. Composite shot made of 12 focus–stacked exposures, using the...