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Up to a good start (2020) After I once suffered a car refusing to start in the morning because of a weak battery (I was still working back then, and of course expected at the office!), I decided it would not ever happen again, and I acquired two “Noco Genius” devices: one battery charger that...

I have family in the Normandy city of Le Havre. This was taken when we went to visit in December 2022, from the balcony of our hotel room overlooking the English Channel. The dim coastline in the background is also Normandy, on the other side of the Seine estuary. Nikon Z7 II, Nikkor Z...

Welcome indeed !

Back from Savoy. Darn, it was cold up there! 🥶 Brittany, Quiberon peninsula, November 2015. Nikon D810, Nikkor 300mm, ƒ/4 PF G lens, handheld.

Deck shoes (2020) Sebago’s Dockside shoes have accompanied not only my sailing activities since the 1970s, but also most of my off-work daily life. I do not think I have ever worn sneakers or tennis shoes, except of course when playing tennis or practicing a field-and-track sport. That’s what...

Another archangel at work... (2022) Even more surprising: the façade of the abbey church of Saint Giles has yet another sculpted representation of Saint Michael! Here he is, surrounded by onlookers (human or angelic?), and still smiling as he effortlessly slays the Dragon... or maybe some other...

The side switch is to unlock the device that holds the lens in place when one is attached. End caps rotate normally when you twist them, just like with any lens. Physically, the adapter works and behaves exactly like a lens in terms of attaching and detaching.

I would say that every lens has a sweet spot, an f-stop value (or a series of such values) at which it performs best optically. This best optical performance chiefly concerns sharpness, color aberrations and resistance to flare, but it may also has an influence on color rendition. Of course...

French Alps, November 2016 An impressive mountainscape I found at the end of a bad dirt track I managed to climb, thanks to the four-wheel drive traction in my SUV. Nikon D810, Nikkor 24mm, ƒ/1.4 G lens, handheld. [Note: tomorrow I go away for two days of shooting in Savoy for the Fondation...

I like Peak Design products, even though I sometimes deplore their purely functional, very politically correct approach —how I regret my elk hide should straps from Germany...! As a lot of my photo work happens with the camera on a tripod, the body is almost always equipped with that orange...

The intricacies of Romanesque (2022) Still in the Saint-Hilaire-le-Grand church in Poitiers, central western France. Nikon Z7 II, Micro-Nikkor 85mm, ƒ/2.8 D PC-E tilt-shift macro lens, manual focus, FTZ II adapter. Gitzo tripod, Benro geared head. Natural light.

Charms (2020) Some of the charms on my wife’s bracelet, collected over time. The gold mask is from Venice, the coral “tooth” from Sardinia, and the miniature gold ingot from, I think, Switzerland. Nikon Z7, Nikkor Z “Nifty Fifty” 50mm ƒ/1.8 S lens, Fotodiox Pro 35-mm extension tube. Gitzo...

Double décilitre (2020) High key studio shot. Nikon Z7, Nikkor Z 50mm ƒ/1.8 S lens. Gitzo tripod, Arca-Swiss Cube C1 geared head. Flash lighting. Composite shot made of 9 focus-stacked exposures, set automatically using the built-in function on the camera. Stack processed with Helicon Focus.

A smiling angel (2022) As we are on the abbey church of Saint Giles in the south of France, I thought I would show you a couple of photographs of the vaunted sculpture on the façade. Now, smiling angels are few and far between, but by no means unknown in the amazingly diverse world of...

French Alps, November 2016 Eight years ago: the first snows have fallen and the little lake is in the process of freezing until the thaw of next Spring. Nikon D810, Nikkor 35mm, ƒ/1.4 G lens, handheld.

Hé hé... Course they are. Homage to an old friend (2020) Shooting black on black and retaining an atmosphere of mystery while showing the details that need to be seen is a classic exercise in lighting. Here I chose my old and trusty D3s as the subject, intentionally shooting it from below and...

The crypt under the abbey church of Saint Giles, southern France (2022) In the small town of Saint-Gilles in Camargue, a monastery was erected in the 600s. Initially dedicated to the saints Peter and Paul, its dedication was changed during the 800s to Gilles (the English-language Giles), a...

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Ria du Guili, southern Brittany, Summer 2016 A ria is the geographers’ word for what is called in Brittany an aber: the estuary of a river that gets filled by sea water at high tide, and almost empties at low tide. Nikon D810, Nikkor 24mm, ƒ/1.4 G lens, handheld. That 24 knew how to hold its...

Inside a Pentium (October 2020) Super-macro shot (close to 10:1 ratio) of part of the insides of an Intel Pentium microprocessor. Lots of minuscule grains of dust in there! Nikon Z7, Nikkor Z 50mm ƒ/1.8 S lens, Novoflex BALPRO T/S bellows. Gitzo tripod, Arca-Swiss Cube C1 geared head. Flash...