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Archæologist is a tough job... Archæologists hard at work on a dig in the city of Lyon, France. In some parts of the city, precautionary excavations have to take place every time an old building is taken down to build a new one, to make sure nothing of interest remains underneath. Those guys...

Paris may be a modern-day capital city with all the required trappings (and all the downsides!), it still also looks like a very small countryside town, if you know where to go, with quaint houses aligned along twisting, narrow streets where children can play without fearing traffic, not to...

Very small leaves in my garden, lit by flash only, simulating darkness when in fact it was broad daylight... Nikon Z7, Micro-Nikkor 60mm, ƒ/2.8 G lens, FTZ adapter. Handheld, artificial lighting.

A bottle of beer... Classic lighting exercise: dark bottle on very dark background and backdrop (the latter very slightly reflective at the base), however lit to show at the same time the contours, the label and the product inside... It was not at all just out of the fridge, as one might think...

The dolmen of Kercordonner in Brittany. The word dolmen is Breton for “table of stone”. Kercordonner is actually a succession of several dolmens, as you can see, thus forming what is usually called une allée couverte, a covered alley. I took this photo in 2014 with a Nikon D3S and a...

A Romanesque masterpiece Dedicated to Saint Peter and located on the path to Compostela (and therefore a UNESCO World Heritage site), the Benedictine abbey of Moissac in Aquitaine was founded in the 700s. According to legend, it was founded even earlier, in 506, by the freshly converted Clovis...

A new motherboard In the Fall of 2020, I had to assemble a new PC, as my old one was still running Windows 7 or 8 and presented all sorts of problems to upgrade. Since I began to custom-assemble my PCs 20 years ago or so, I have always used Asus motherboards and not one of them ever failed me...

An esoteric castle There is not much left of the lordly Mediæval castle of Simiane in Provence. The keep, built around 1200, is still standing and is famous among Mediævalists for its splendid decoration. This is the rotunda ceiling of the top room, a room so strangely designed that a consensus...

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The Devil’s Castle This strange name has been given to this small fortress hugging the high cliff wall in the valley of River Cele, not far from the village of Cabrerets in the Périgord region (southwestern France). It was so named because for many years, bands of highwaymen used it as a base...

In 2022, I was driving on small, lazy back-country road in the clear light of a June morning in the province of Aquitaine (southwestern France) when I happened, purely by chance, upon this wonderful early Romanesque church built on a hilltop in the middle of nowhere, a few kilometers from the...

A Renaissance purse made of gold This is a very nice piece that’s been in the family (on my mother’s side) for generations. I was told by by a supposedly knowledgeable person that it was Renaissance work from the 1500s. It is a small purse, about 5 centimeters wide and maybe 8 in length...

A head of garlic, slightly past its prime... Nikon Z7, Nikkor Z 50mm, ƒ/1.8 S lens, extension tube. Gitzo tripod, Arca-Swiss Cube C1 geared head. Artificial lighting. Composite shot made up of an unrecorded number of focus-stacked exposures. Stack processed with Helicon Focus.

The Romanesque and Cluniac priory church of La Charité-sur-Loire (central France). Built between 1050 and 1100, the church is a UNESCO World Heritage site as it stands on the Via Lemovicensis path to Compostela. Nikon Z7 II, Nikkor 19mm, ƒ/4 PC-E tilt-shift lens. Gitzo tripod, Benro geared...

Clovis, the tripod I use as a “travel” one is the Gitzo GT0545T. It is a very sturdy and stable little guy, but of course I understand that “very sturdy” is a subjective assessment in the light of my own experience and standards. On it is a Gitzo ball head with an impossibly moronic name...

Patrick, that monopod looks nice! iFootage seems to be a good brand. I know of a UK pro photographer who uses one of their tripods and he’ happy with it. I did buy a monopod a couple of years ago, not because I was planning on using it regularly but because I needed a trick to “beat the system”...

Hello everyone, I’m back! The trip went very well and was fun, lots of great places and some (hopefully) nice photographs (a selection of which I will show in due course), even though the main purpose of the trip was my wife’s watercolor work. Here’s an oldie from a fishing boat cemetery in...

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