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In the abbey church of Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne, Périgord, southwestern France. The stylized letters you see engraved on some stones are marques de tâcherons, or maker’s marks. Stone cutters in the Middle Ages were, like many other trades, paid on a “piecework” basis. With this unique mark they...

Murano glass bracelet Another one that was a bitch to light —and, of course, loads of fun because of it! I bought this bracelet for my wife at the Antica Murrina glass-making shop in Venice. It is gold with “charms” made of glass, hand-blown by Murano artisans. Costume jewellery of course...

Winter may be coming, we are ready! An autumnal still life i composed in September 2020 : Burberry cashmere scarf (I’ve had this for maybe 40 years now...!), “Tarmac” shoes by Aigle (they’re my “winter deck shoes”, and they feel like slippers!) and assorted seasonal props... Nikon Z7, Nikkor Z...

A gallery in the cloister, Cistercian abbey of Le Thoronet, Provence, 2022. Nikon Z7 II, Nikkor 19mm, ƒ/4 PC-E tilt-shift lens, manual focus, FTZ II adapter. Gitzo tripod, Benro geared head. Natural light.

Unhappy neighbors A gray heron and a pelican both found this half–submerged branch to their liking for a perch... However, neither enjoys the other one’s company!

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Hello guys, Just for your information, and since you’ve been getting used to my daily deluge of photos, I am leaving home tomorrow for a two-week trip down to Provence, so that I will not post anything until towards the end of October. Thank you and see you at the end of October...

Thank you for those kind and encouraging words. It must indeed be the lenses, as I have honestly no claim to any hint of talent like what you describe! I wouldn’t know where to begin. But thanks again anyway!

April 2020, lockdown, shooting macros in the garden and overpowering the Sun with off-camera flash: I found this strangely wilted flower, maybe from the year before? Nikon Z7, Micro-Nikkor 60mm, ƒ/2.8 G lens (amazing performer, I already said!), FTZ adapter. Handheld, single exposure...

Well, you guys may be not convinced, but I just love those rabbits, so I had to upload a second one! There. 🤩 Nikon Z7, Nikkor Z 85mm, ƒ/1.8 S lens. Gitzo tripod, Arca-Swiss Cube C1 geared head. Artificial lighting. Composite shot made up of 18 focus-stacked exposures, using the built-in...

One thing you can be reasonably sure of with Cistercians, you won’t be overwhelmed with the abundance of decoration in their churches... :rolleyes: Abbey church of Le Thoronet in Provence, 2022. Nikon Z7 II, Nikkor 19mm, ƒ/4 PC-E tilt-shift lens, manual focus, FTZ II adapter. Gitzo tripod...

Fifteen years ago or so, I was doing a lot of wildlife photography and I was always looking for original subjects to shoot. Now, around the large city of Lyon (or Lyons, I never knew), the second largest in France, a network of defensive military forts had been built around 1875–1900. All of...

Oh, I get it now. Well, delete the whole thread then!

Beaulieu-sur-Dodogne (Périgord, southwestern France) Benedictine abbey church. The Ex Libris string trio rehearsing in the transept in preparation for the evening’s concert (2022). Nikon Z7 II, Micro-Nikkor 85mm, ƒ/2.8 PC-E tilt-shift lens, manual focus, FTZ II adapter. Gitzo tripod, Benro...

McKenzie & Childs Rabbit (2019) This is one of our amazing and wonderful porcelain “rabbits” designed by McKenzie & Childs in New York City. There are (or rather, there were, as they have stopped making them now) four of them in all, but we only ever managed to get three, all of them...

I’m not sure I get the gist here, but if it is anything like I see AI-generated content here and this forum isn’t the place for it, I personally wouldn’t hesitate to delete the concerned content, if need be after ascertaining the situation with the poster. That’s what I do on the Flickr groups I...

I know, I was like you before I began to worry about horizons being... well, horizontal, and verticals not converging nor diverging... Your corrected photo is much better, thank you! :giggle:

That sort of question is a bit like, What is the best brand of pen to write a novel? :unsure::LOL: The good news is, you don’t have to find the ideal camera the first time you pick one. Most likely, your first camera won’t be the ideal one, and when you find that ideal one, if you ever do, it...

Typical France... You drive along a narrow and twisting back country road, expecting nothing but farm entrances and the occasional rabbit crossing the road, when all of a sudden, bam! a magnificent Mediæval ruin hits you, just like that... Unsignaled, undocumented, you have no clue what it is...

I wonder why the ugly and enormous eyelashes... Well, we know that good taste is not the most widespread of qualities. :unsure: