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Pushing the cursors (2020) In June 2020, on what must have been a sweltering day, I took a high-key shot of the most mundane and boring subject I could find, and set about going crazy in post-production by tweaking and pushing all those software cursors I had never used before. This is the...

The dunes of Keremma, almost 10 years ago (March 2015) This may look like the Bahamas or the Maldives, but in fact it is northern Brittany, on a tract of land known as Keremma (“The house of Emma”), bought by the Rousseau family in the mid–1800s. The land remains in the same (and very much...

La Charité: the grandest priory that ever was (2022) As you know, priories (i.e., subsidiaries of abbeys) usually are humble, smallish-sized affairs. Around 1200, at the end of the Romanesque age, the French abbey of Cluny numbered more than 1,000 of them, but the Cluniac priory in La...

Bee in the lavender (2020) I know I’m a shabby macrophotographer compared to you guys, but I like the “You talkin’ to me?” attitude of this one. :cool: Nikon Z7, Micro-Nikkor 105mm, ƒ/2.8 G VR, FTZ adapter, handheld. Natural light.

You're welcome. Good choice! ;)

Classy garden gloves (2020) Those are tweed and leather garden gloves. I found them so good-looking I couldn’t resist buying them, then ended up never daring to use them for gardening... Also, they look a bit thin for the kind of garden work I do (my garden is a jungle!), and so I favor my...

Aye ! We likes trains and locos! :p

If you already have the 24-120, get the 14-30 if you truly feel the need for a wider lens. I have one and I love it. It is compact, light and my copy has an astounding image quality. The modest ƒ/4 aperture won't be a problem for landscapes.

I concur. That's also what I found when I looked into this tripod and finally decided against it. I stuck to my Gitzos. I have tons of Peak Design products and they're all great but it's a bit like Apple: great products as long as you keep them working within their own, Apple ecosystem. The...

Last visit to Venice (February 2016) Facing the Giudecca Island, the deserted terrace of Da Nico, one of the best ice–cream places in town, famous among aficionados for its gianduiotto flavor. I had to have one, of course, even in February, and so I took this photograph from the threshold of...

A marine lifestyle (or is it a marine-style life?), 2020 Having fun in the studio building up a still life around an ocean-going theme: . a Dalmard Marine sailor’s sweater. That brand claims to “clothe the adventurers” —yay, so I am one! (I can see my wife sneering silently); . my old Tamaya...

Very interesting!

My latest purchase was a new shoulder strap from Peak Design. To tell the truth, I didn’t need one at all, but got seduced by the lovely-looking “coyote” color they came up with recently —how vain can we be? :rolleyes: Anyway, I first bought a Slide model, which is wider than my usual Slide...

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Thanks a lot guys, Happy New Year to you too! ;) The photo below shows the Mediæval fortress of Couzan, in the old province of Auvergne (central France). It was built mostly during the late 1100s–early 1200s and is a remarkable example of military and defensive architecture of that period...

Well done everyone! This was a very difficult choice to make! :)

Hello everyone, I am back from our family time in the UK, in Normandy and in Paris, with lots of lovely memories of those festive days! :love: To begin 2025 in style, here is a street photo taken in Paris a few days ago. I am most definitely not good at that genre, so don’t hold it against...

A Celtic presence in Auvergne (2015) Auvergne is the province that lies in the center of France. Celts from Brittany came and conquered and settled here like they did on the way in most of western France, hence the large numbers of menhirs (“pointy stones”) and dolmens (“stone tables”). This...

Oh, so you are one of those too, aren't you? I am as well. When they need rain around here, they ask me, and I go spend 20 euros on a full, splendid car wash at the Karcher station. The car comes out glistening clean, you need sunglasses to look at it. Then it is guaranteed to rain in the next...