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Chez Teil, an iconic, old-fashioned store selling foodstuffs from Auvergne in Paris (2014). Nikon D700, Nikkor 24mm, ƒ/3.5D PC-E tilt-shift lens, manual focus. Handheld.

Welcome from France ! :) Marilynne, how can I do white text on black background? :rolleyes:

Exotics (2021) Yes, this is (supposedly) food, but not the kind that makes you put on weight just by looking at it... I see from my notes that this one took no less than 60 exposures! Some people definitely do have too much time on their hands. :rolleyes: It looks like the processing of the...

The choir and the apse with its ambulatory for the orderly circulation of pilgrims, still in the Sainte-Radegonde church in Poitiers. I mentioned above the gory and garish “supposedly Mediæval-looking” coating applied in the 19th century, and, well, it looks rather better in black-and-white...

The Sienna payphones (2012) This is Sienna, so even a payphone hall has to look stylish... It was also quite deserted, as even in 2012, cell phones were everywhere and very few people ever needed traditional payphones. Nikon D3S, Nikkor 24-70mm, ƒ/2.8 G lens, handheld.

That can only add to your reputation and prestige. :cool: Clovis and Marilynne, thanks! Will do next time.

LOL ! Sorry, I deleted my earlier message when I realized I hap uploaded a photo larger than 1,200 pixels. I do not know how to simply change photos, if that is at all possible, so I deleted the entire message and re-posted it afterwards with the right-size photo... but now your message...

Fingers crossed indeed. Now, we’re not back to food photography yet, but we’re getting ever closer, Needa... We’re already in the kitchen! This was not tabletop, but rather stovetop photography... Nikon Z7, Nikkor Z 85mm, ƒ/1.8 S lens, handheld and wide open, the IBIS doing a great job at...

Rose naine (Dwarf rose?), 2020 Using a regular lens for macrophotography: dwarf rose photographed with a 135mm lens on an extension tube. Nikon Z7, Sigma 135mm ƒ/1.8 Art lens, FTZ adapter, Fotodiox Pro 35-mm extension tube. Gitzo tripod, Arca-Swiss Cube C1 geared head. Flash lighting...

Congrats on your new purchase! I have a Z7 II and hesitated when the Z8 came out, then learned that it would not bring any improvement in image quality (especially dynamic range) for the kind of photography I generally do, therefore I skipped it and decided to wait for the next iteration of the...

The way through the woods A forest in Burgundy (2014). Nikon D700, Nikkor 50mm, ƒ/1.4 G lens, handheld.

The fortified priory of Pommiers (2021) During the late 800s, in 878 or maybe 891, Benedictine monks came from the abbey of Nantua (eastern France, near Switzerland) to found a new abbey in this place. The name Pommiers, meaning “apple trees”, suggests that there was a Roman villa with orchards...

Great shot, congrats !

Two more capitals from the collegiate church of Chauvigny, to illustrate two different aspects of what was expected from this kind of decoration in churches during the Romanesque age. The first one below is purely didactic. In the Middle Ages, most people, even among the nobility, could not...

Primes in lockdown (March 2020) March 2020, the first days and weeks of COVID lockdown in France... Having been head of the Legal Department in a world-leading biotech company for 12 years before I retired in December 2018, I was quite accustomed to dealing with emerging pathogens and what’s...

A small inlet along the coast of Brittany, November 2013. Nikon D3S, Nikkor 24-70mm, ƒ/2.8 G lens, handheld.

Yup. Abysmal is the word. :mad:

Well, in the stores here all the chocolates have arrived, and all the toys too, so there. :cool:

Christmas tree detail (2020) Those gorgeous glass balls are hand-blown by the Verrerie de Biot glass-making workshop in Provence (see here in English). The little green dots glow in the dark in the loveliest manner. Nikon Z7, Micro-Nikkor 105mm, ƒ/2.8 G VR macro lens, FTZ II adapter. Gitzo...

The true story of a pair of Sony headphones In 2016, with more than two years of work still ahead of me before my retirement, the biotech company I worked for as head of the Legal Department relocated part of its ever-growing resources and assets to a newly designed and built building, half a...