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The Crypt (2022) Underneath the previously shown church of Anzy-le-Duc, there is a crypt. There was a monastery in Anzy in Carolingian times, one of the oldest founded in the province. It was donated to the abbey of Saint-Martin in Autun in 878, and thereafter became really renowned under one...

The Temptation of Eve (2022) In the Burgundy town of Autun, the Rolin museum in front of the cathedral houses some wonders by sculptor Gislebertus, among which this Temptation of Eve, which is probably the best known sculpture in all of the Romanesque world. It is sculpted on a lintel and the...

Fun! Too bad for the power lines that might need to go. I wonder if there was another way to frame it and make use of the interesting curvy road...

A Mediæval lockbox (2019) Among my most valued antiques is this late Mediæval (14th century) lockbox. Made of engraved iron plates, still quite sturdy in spite of the damages caused by the passing of time (and probably less careful previous owners), it features a very cleverly hidden lock. It...

Au rendez–vous des pêcheurs (2017) The village of Saint-Maurice-sur-Aveyron in central France features something most unusual nowadays: a river running over the road, creating a ford in the middle of the village! The restaurant that sits right there is aptly named “The Fishermen’s Meeting...

An Italian-looking church in Burgundy (2022) During the Middle Ages, even though the winters were a lot colder and longer than they are now, the Alps were never impassable. In fact, there were a lot of commercial and other exchanges between what is now France and Italy. Among those, Italian...

Thanks a lot ! Mediæval bestiary (2021) Imaginary monsters mix with real ones on this high-relief sculpted capital on the façade of the Saint-Nazaire church in the village of Corme-Royal, old province of Saintonge (western France). Nikon Z7, Micro-Nikkor 85mm, ƒ/2.8 D PC tilt-shift macro...

My own personal favorite chapel (2017) This is my favorite pre–Romanesque (or early Romanesque) chapel, built around Year 1000 and standing obstinately on its lonely hilltop since then, facing innumerable sunsets for over a millennium... I have photographed it many times; this time, I planned...

Yes, I think it's much better this way!

The cloister of Silvacane (2022) Cistercian abbey in Provence. Nikon Z7 II, Micro-Nikkor 45mm, ƒ/2.8 PC-E tilt-shift macro lens, manual focus, FTZ II adapter. Gitzo tripod, Benro geared head. Natural light.

Lovely photos. What a picturesque place!

Nice bokeh! Maybe pull the darks a bit in the cat's fur? Make the eyes a bit more shiny?

The towers of Peyrusse (2016) During the Middle Ages, Peyrusse was a fair–sized town with more than 3,000 people. It was located at a major crossroad and featured several significant commercial fairs each year. Nowadays, it is a very small landlocked village of a precious few hundred, far from...

Saintonge: a profusion of Romanesque ! (2021) The old province of Saintonge, in the western part of France, is replete with gorgeous Romanesque churches. So, one day in the Fall of 2021, I plunked myself down in a rented house for two weeks, squat in the center of the area, and I started...

Exotic veggies (2019) Nikon Z7, Sigma 135mm ƒ/1.8 Art lens, FTZ adapter. Gitzo tripod, Arca-Swiss Cube C1geared head. Multi-flash lighting. Composite shot made up of 34 focus-stacked exposures, using the built-in function on the camera. Stack processed with Helicon Focus.

Falling into the southern Italian N’drangheta Mafia love trap..? (2015) Photos of a wedding taken in Ravello, one of the most picturesque (and wedding-perfect) places on the Costa Amalfitana (southern Italy). To the casual observer of things, this looked surprisingly like a death trap into...

Given your age bracket, your weight concerns sound legitimate. The Z mount has allowed engineers to design lenses that perform better, all things being equal, than most of their F-mount equivalents, so you should see an improvement over your previous zoom lens. That said, I cannot even imagine...

Saint-Martin-de-Londres in Languedoc, southern France (2022) Inspired by Byzantine architectural concepts (hence its trefoil floor plan and its octagonal bell tower on a cupola, topped by a short pinnacle), this Romanesque church was built around 1050 by the local Montarnaud lords. The place...

A crooked bell tower (2022) The western façade of the Benedictine abbey church of Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne, southwestern France. Yes, the bell tower is quite crooked... The tripod head was of course perfectly level for this photograph. Nikon Z7 II, Nikkor 19mm, ƒ/4 PC-E tilt-shift lens, manual...

Textures (2019) Photograph taken for a Flickr theme-based group and meant to show assorted textures: wool, cotton, leather, glass and liquid (limoncello). Soft leather case by Lucrin in Geneva for my half-moon glasses; Armor-Lux marinière sweater; Uniqlo Summer cotton shirt; and in the...