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Still in the Loyasse cemetery in Lyons... Nikon D810, Nikkor 19mm, ƒ/4 PC-E tilt-shift lens, manual focus. Handheld, natural light.

Still in the basilica of Aime that I showed above, or rather underneath it, this is the Carolingian crypt. This place you’re looking was built just like that in the 800s; simply standing there alone and beholding those ancient columns and unadorned capitals was very moving and emotional. It is...

Macro and super-macro, a set of two: A few days ago, back in the Tabletop thread, I showed a photo where I used as a prop to the main subject a Baccarat crystal champagne cup from the early 20th century that has been in my family since then. The crystal is impossibly thin (those guys don’t go...

Congrats for the handheld!

A study in minimalism (2019) —and, yes, this is a color photograph. ;) Nikon Z7, Micro-Nikkor 105mm, ƒ/2.8 G VR macro lens, FTZ II adapter. Gitzo tripod and ball head, artificial lighting. Single exposure. The behind-the-scenes: very basic lighting, just one studio flash to the left with a...

Yikes! Me thought this thread was about food photography and meant to post of couple of appetizing stuff... I forgot how much you guys love your insects and bugs! 😧

The Romanesque abbey church of Tournus in Burgundy. I won’t bore you with technical stuff, but just know that the vaulting in this church is unique (literally!) in all of Christendom and has been standing as is for close to a millennium... :geek: Nikon Z7, Nikkor 19mm, ƒ/4 PC-E tilt-shift lens...

Your diffuser looks fine, and off-camera flash is definitely the way to go.

And what would the theme be for such a thread, pray, as it is not perfectly obvious to newbies...? :giggle:

The L’Herm Castle, in the Périgord region of France, was built during the 16th century, it is therefore not Mediæval. However, and in spite of some elements and decorations in the Renaissance style, it retains a general appearance that is decidedly Mediæval, making it an exception for a time...

In 2016, I was asked by the City of Lyons to take photographs of the old, monumental cemetery of Loyasse to document the interesting and curious tombs and funerary monuments that are to be found there. The photos were for the city’s archives and there was also a book project, but I don’t think...

Macro with a nifty fifty —and an extension tube! My feeling at the time (2019) was that the reproduction ratio was very close to 1:1, and even maybe a little bit beyond. Buttons and thread on fabric, all borrowed from my wife’s workshop for the purpose of a macrophotography, sewing-oriented...

It’s not only the capitals that told stories in the Middle Ages: façades and archivolts around portals also did, like this one on the church of the Abbaye aux Dames in the town of Saintes, the first abbey for nuns created in the province of Saintonge (western France) in 1049. Nikon Z7...

Two last photos of that sport which I admire very much. An Olympic sport in which men and women compete together in exactly the same tests is rare enough. Does it even exist outside of equestrian disciplines? Nikon D3S, Nikkor 70-200mm, ƒ/2.8 G VR II lens, handheld. Nikon D3, Nikkor...

An old style picture with a glasses case and a Timex watch. Nikon Z7, Nikkor Z 50mm, ƒ/1.8 S lens. Gitzo tripod, Arca-Swiss Cube C1 geared head. Artificial lighting. Composite shot made up of 17 focus-stacked exposures, using the built-in function on the Nikon Z7. Stack processed with Helicon...

Acqua alta in Venice, 2009. Nikon D3, Nikkor 70-200mm, ƒ/2.8 G VR II lens, handheld.

Earlier this year I was commissioned by the Spanish Ministry of Culture to shoot Romanesque churches in the provinces of Castille and León and the Saint Vincent basilica in Avíla was one of them. It is a grand Romanesque church, in spite of its rib-vaulted ceiling, thus from the Gothic period...

Quite a unique find! Congratulations 👏

Those are arcs de décharge —discharging arches, I believe they’re called in English. They are just there to reinforce the side wall. This is a very, very old wall in which you can see traces of opus spicatum, i.e. stones arranged in a fishbone-like pattern, which is a sure sign of old age, and...

Hello, I'm not sure I understand your first question: how many capitals are there? You mean, in the entire Christian world? Thousands are left, and many more have disappeared, no doubt! My information comes from years of hands-on experience, conversations with learned monks, and thick-section...