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Tide coming in, southern Brittany, December 2018 Nikon Z7, Nikkor Z 35mm, ƒ/1.8 S lens. Long exposure, Gitzo tripod, ND1000 filter.

Venice in Winter III (2018) You know you really are in the dead of Winter when you have the passageway along the Doges’ Palace all to yourself... Nikon D850, Voigtländer Nokton 58mm, ƒ/1.4, manual focus, handheld.

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The Oratory of Souls (2018) This is one of the most touching and old churches in all of Sardinia: the Byzantine, pre-Romanesque church known today as the Oratory of Souls, and formerly dedicated to San Niccolo Vescovo (“bishop”), in the village of Massama. It was built mostly during the...

Venice in Winter III (2018) In the dead of Winter, Rosa Salva, my favorite tea room in Venice, is deserted, whereas it is normally packed, plus the people waiting in line outside... :p Nikon D850, Voigtländer Nokton 58mm, ƒ/1.4, manual focus, handheld.

Venice in Winter II (2018) Nikon D850, Voigtländer Nokton 58mm, ƒ/1.4, manual focus, handheld.

A Summer in Rome (2012) The fountain of the Four Rivers on Piazza Navona, “the belly button of the world”. This fountain is by Bernini, who also designed many other masterpieces, including Saint Peter’s Square. Rival architect Borromini designed the Sant’ Agnese in Agone church just behind it...

The (then) new and the (not so) old (2018) iPhone snapshot of my then-newly-acquired Z7 camera body with a seemingly old–fashioned Nikkor lens attached to it via the FTZ adapter. In fact, that lens is fairly recent, it is a Voigtländer Nokton 58mm f/1.4, made in Japan by Cosina, splendid build...

Venice in Winter I (2018) Nikon D850, Voigtländer Nokton 58mm, ƒ/1.4, manual focus, handheld.

Saint Helen in the fields (2019) The chiesa campestre of Sant’ Elena is the cutest and one of the most memorable I ever photographed in Sardinia. Imagine having only vague directions to the place; no road, only a bad dirt track which I picked among several others, and on which I had to drive...

Montmartre in the Spring (2018) Nikon D850, Nikkor 19mm, ƒ/4 PC-E tilt-shift lens, manual focus. Handheld.

Chiesa campestre and a Roman God’s acre marker (2018) Chiesa campestre, literally “church in the fields”, that’s how they call in Sardinia those churches that are built in the middle of nowhere, at a good distance of, and sometimes quite far from, any human settlement, past or present. This one...

Another lonely church in Sardinia, Part II (2019) I showed above a photo of the façade of the ruined Romanesque church of San Nicola di Silanis in Sardinia, and now this is what its apse looks like. This lovely 12th century church, partly in ruin but now well taken care of, is a fine example of...

A Carolingian crypt brought back to life (2025) In March 2025, I finally managed to obtain all the authorizations (I’d been working on them for more than six months!) necessary to photograph the Merovingian (I date it from around Year 500) crypt of Saint-Domitien (Domitian?), on the grounds of...

Sardinia, Summer 2018 The wild and rocky coastline on the western side of Sardinia, near L’Argentiera —a name etymologically reminiscent of the silver mines that existed around here a long time ago. Nikon D850, Nikkor 19mm, ƒ/4 PC-E tilt-shift lens, manual focus, handheld.

The Merovingian church of Civaux (2022) The parish church in the small village of Civaux (old province of Poitou, central western France) is one of the oldest in France. It is dedicated to the saints Gervais and Protais (Gervasio and Protasio), twin Italian brothers martyred during the 1st...

A stupendous Romanesque church... ignored by all ! (2021) Saint-Paulien in Auvergne (central France) is a place with about 2,400 inhabitants. Larger than a village, smaller than a town, there is a word in French for this kind of in-between locale: a bourg. Bourgs almost always have a church...

Doesn’t get any cuter... (2020) Beyond the challenge of lighting round-shaped glass, the sheer cuteness of this little USB key made it all worth the effort. What an absurdly lovely example of a protective casing more fragile than its content! Nikon Z7, Micro-Nikkor 105mm, ƒ/2.8 G VR macro...

A Normandy Manor (2018) A couple more photographs of that lovely 16th century manor of Archelles in Upper Normandy. My bedroom when I stayed there was the left window on the top floor of the central house, and the luxurious bathroom was in the tower! The decorative use of alternate brick and...

Everyone needs it. There is always something that one could have done better. And I'm not talking artistically, because in that field, it's strictly a matter of personal, subjective opinion. So, technically, your photo of the little bird is generally good. Most of the EXIF seem to have been...