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[Sorry for the long historical caption, I hope some of you will find it of interest.] The sarcophagus of a saint We are in the city of Poitiers, capital of the old province of Poitou in western central France. In this area of the city, a first church was built in the 500s by Radegonde, Queen...

Squalls over Penmarc’h (2013) At the western tip of Brittany, a small sailboat rounds Penmarc’h Point close by in the hope of getting into port before the rain catches up. Nikon D3S, Nikkor 24-70mm, ƒ/2.8 G lens, handheld.

I see you have an eye for detail... Indeed, La Peste does not run for more than 1,000 pages, very few single novels do. And therefore, unmistakably, when a book looks like this one does, it must be because it is indeed a collection of several works, as is the case here: the book you see in the...

All right... Needa gets a respite today, no more food photos for the moment! :LOL: 🤭 The photographer’s forgotten companions For many photographers, the standalone light meter symbolizes accessories of bygone days. No one uses them today, even though the chief reason why they were used in...

The wrong cloth in the right church (2022) The small town of Souillac lies in the French département (bit like a county for you guys in the US) of Lot, in the old province of Quercy (and in the modern region of Occitania). According to unconfirmed local stories, the abbey of Souillac was...

What a tough choice! I see birds are really your thing, guys! 👏

The sign-eater(20xx) A sign-eating plane tree. This “Parking” sign dates, I would think, from the 1960s. It was obviously nailed to the trunk of the plane tree, which was not bothered and proceeded to “digest” it over the decades that elapsed since then. This is an old photo, I remember taking...

Thank you for your kind comment. :) The priory church of Saint-Romain-le-Puy (2021) Benedictine monks settled on the high hill of Saint-Romain-le-Puy in Auvergne (central France) as early as 550-600 AD. There, they built a pre–Romanesque church of which only the crypt remains (please see...

I am afraid my “jobs” typically do require more than one lens... :rolleyes: :LOL:

Ha! I am so happy! Your garden is even worse than mine! :devilish:

Are you kidding? It is all store-bought. If I had to make them all myself they wouldn’t last long enough to be photographed! :p

Here is mine. I finally managed to set it up and shoot it. And now, I am tired and I have to put everything back! 🤬 😎 Nikon Z7 II, Nikkor Z 35mm, ƒ/1.8 S lens. Gitzo tripod, Arca-Swiss Cube C1 geared head. Flash lighting (3 lights). Composite made of 7 focus-stacked exposure, set using the...

And here we go, hot off the press... I took the opportunity to test the lens collar on the 105 macro, it indeed worked a charm. Nikon Z7 II, Micro-Nikkor Z MC 105mm, ƒ/2.8 S macro lens. Gitzo tripod, Arca-Swiss Cube C1 geared head. Flash lighting (3 lights). Composite made of 6 focus-stacked...

Oh my dear, I am so sorry, but I’m afraid there are a few more whence that one came... Brace yourself! :LOL: :p

Author’s pride This is a very rare example of “author’s pride” at the age of the Romanesque (so, roughly, between 1000 and 1200): a signed capital. One has to understand that, at that time, religion permeated every practical aspect of daily life; thus, people who worked on the erection and...

Swiss ticking Things from my mother: her solid gold wristwatch which she bought in the 1960s while we were skiing in Engelberg, Switzerland. It is a Longines but she had the white dial replaced with a gold one, and so the brand name disappeared (which she liked better, anyway). The small...

Fruit tartlets on parade (2020) More tartlets... If you really must know, I myself did not eat them all after the shoot. I had a little help from my granddaughter. :love: :rolleyes: Nikon Z7, Nikkor Z 35mm, ƒ/1.8 S. Gitzo tripod, Arca-Swiss Cube C1 geared head. Artificial lighting, single...

Welcome Violet !

For many decades, I have used only the best glass Nikon had to offer. In the recent years, I have used the F-mount “Holy Trinity” and a full complement of G primes as well. Also some Zeiss primes and one Sigma Art. Since the advent of mirrorless, and because of an evolution in my photography, I...

The “Pont du Diable” on the Aber Wrac’h (2013) There are many Ponts du Diable (i.e., “Devil’s Bridges”) in France. They often involve daring feats of civil engineering over deep gorges in mountainous environments. This one is extremely old, some date it from Roman times, others from the 900s...