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The ruins of Château-Rocher (2015) Château–Rocher (literally, “Rock Castle”) was built around Year 1000 on a 150–meter cliff overlooking the river Sioule, which in the Middle Ages marked the border between the provinces of Auvergne and Bourbonnais (central France). Listed as a Historical...

Saint-Paulien in Auvergne (central France) is a bourg: too large to be a village, too small to be a town, it sits in-between with about 2,400 inhabitants. Bourgs almost always have a church, as they were, for times immemorial, the place where the seat of the parish was located. Those churches...

Thank you very much ! A serving kit from the French Second Empire Most people have heard (at least vaguely) about French Emperor Napoléon, fewer know about his nephew Napoléon III, who restored the Empire between 1852 and 1870. This lovely set of serving pieces dates from that period and has...

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Sleeping Beauty (2017) Isolated on the high moorlands of Cantal (central France) with its small walled cemetery, this wonderful little chapel, dedicated to Saint Julian, used to be the parish church of a village that no longer exists. According to some sources, a church was consecrated here in...

That last one is perfect. If I were to be really picky, I’d say I’m not entirely certain the focus is on the eye, but that would be pushing it... :giggle:

This splendid piece was given to my wife as a present when she worked in the glass industry. What is inside the glass are beads and filaments of gold, but I have no clue how they got them in there. It is beautiful and interesting to light. It comes with an underside lighting system, but that...

Yes, you’re in for yet another story... :giggle: In the late 1950s, a young Benedictine monk in the Burgundy abbey of La-Pierre-qui-Vire (literally, “The Turning Stone”) convinced his abbot to launch a collection of books devoted to Romanesque architecture and art, the beholding of which the...

I like the last one best. Not because it is intrinsically better, but because the viewpoint is more level with the height of the birds. Makes you feel more like you were “there”. Shooting sitting or swimming birds from above is less efficient I think.

The rocks of Huelgoat (2016) Huelgoat is a small town in central Brittany, famous for its forest, its river and mostly its chaos of enormous granite boulders that create quite a picturesque setting. The small shape somewhere in the frame, doing her best to try and hurt herself while framing a...

I hope I haven’t posted that one before. Boring you with my long stories is one thing, doing it again with repeat postings shall not be tolerated. If anyone has spotted this one already, do let me know and I will take it down at once! :rolleyes: That being said, on with the boring story. When...

A Tank in super-macro Like all luxury brands, Cartier uses several little tricks on their watches that are very difficult to replicate, in an effort to differentiate the genuine article from counterfeits. The word “CARTIER” in the thin leg of the “V” in the Roman numeral VII on this Tank watch...

A minimalist still life. Nikon Z7, Nikkor Z 85mm, ƒ/1.8 S lens. Gitzo tripod, Arca-Swiss Cube C1 geared head. Artificial lighting, single exposure.

Another one of the Saint-Étienne (Saint Stephen) Benedictine priory church in Nevers, central France, this time looking down from up in the gallery. These are usually very narrow and often completely unprotected (think: Middle Ages) passageways, where the general public is of course not...

10-stop is fine for long exposures. I don’t do them very often but I have a set of 3-stop, 6-stop and 10-stop filters (plus some grads) and they cover all I ever needed. Your method of counting on your fingers is very reliable, we’ve all done it. Now, there are apps that will do it for you if...

Another one of that series I posted a first photo of on September 24 above. In fact, my goal was to photograph that strange (and utterly uninteresting historically) 19th century chapel smack in the middle of the fields, taking advantage of the Springtime season that would have the rapeseed in...

Among the organizations I work for as either as pro bono or a paid photographer, the Sauvegarde de l’Art Français foundation is the oldest. This private charity has been around for more than a century, financing restoration works exclusively on churches older than the 19th century and not...

I also like this one (from the same place You-know-where). Nikon Z7 II, Nikkor Z 24-120mm, ƒ/4 S lens, handheld. The three S lenses 14-30 ƒ/4, 24-120 ƒ/4 and 100-400 ƒ/4.5-5.6 really form a perfect trio for travel and general photography, in my opinion. Better image quality than the F-mount...

Inside a large amethyst Towards the end of 2020, I bought a manual focus APO macro lens by Laowa, 100mm in focal length and capable of going to 2:1 natively. The inside of this amethyst stone is one of the first test shots I took with it. It is a very good lens, I could say an excellent one...

The curves of a Chef Pulled the Kenwood Chef food processor out of the kitchen for a photo shoot with the nifty fifty... Nikon Z7, Nikkor Z 50mm, ƒ/1.8 S lens. Gitzo tripod, Arca-Swiss Cube C1 geared head. Artificial lighting, single exposure at ƒ/5.6 for some more bokeh.