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Another bee on lavender with the same combination already shown above: Sigma 135mm, ƒ/1.8 Art lens with a 15–mm extension tube and an FTZ adapter on the Z7:

Having fun with old cameras... This is a very simple setup without big studio flashes, just a pair of cobras. No fancy softboxes either, just the accessories that came with the flashes. I had made a behind-the-scenes snapshot which I post underneath as well, so you can see how it was done. The...

The magic art of Romanesque masonry... Nikon Z7, Nikkor 19mm, ƒ/4 PC-E tilt-shift lens. Gitzo tripod, Benro geared head. Natural light.

Impeccable rider, impeccable horse... The right combination to succeed ! Nikon D3S, Nikkor 70-200mm, ƒ/2.8 G VR II lens, handheld. Riding hard in the fog... Nikon D700, 200-400mm, ƒ/4 G VR II lens, handheld.

Auvergne, the large region that occupies the mountainous center of France, is a country of volcanoes. Dead ones (or asleep, as geologists like to remind us), but still volcanoes... The 2012 landscape below shows the top of the Puy Mary, one of the highest peaks in Auvergne... which remains...

Still in the French province of Saintonge, which is also featured in my post of today in the “Post your black-and-white photos” section of the forum, this is the old cemetery of the village of Aulnay, which sits behind the parochial church dedicated to Saint Peter. That church was built on a...

Today, I have something for those of you who are interested by mysterious, unexplained, borderline phenomena and beliefs. The place we’re in is the cathedral of Le Puy-en-Velay in Auvergne (central France), one of the major Romanesque buildings of the Western World. Built between the late 1000s...

A simple high-key attempt at a bowl of oranges. I took a shot at them with a nifty fifty (easy!) before my wife painted them using watercolors (much more difficult!). The bowl is some artsy-fartsy Japanese thing which I’m not even allowed to wash in the sink! My wife was eyeing me suspiciously...

An old double tournois French coin from 1634, enlarged about 4:1 with the bellows and a non–macro lens. Nikon Z7, Nikkor Z 85mm, ƒ/1.8 S lens. Novoflex BALPRO T/S bellows, Gitzo tripod, Arca-Swiss Cube C1 geared head. Artificial lighting.

This is one of the cute little Samsung solid-state hard drives I use these days for backup storage. I have several, 1 or 2 terabytes each, they are reliable and super-fast. I strongly recommend them, even though I got no discount from Amazon for any of ’em! I keep a couple in my desk drawer, in...

The small region of Saintonge in western France is chock full of Romanesque churches, very decorated and with unusual shapes. It is as if each parish felt the urge to outshine the neighbors by featuring the most resplendent church, and as Saintonge was already a wine-growing (read: rich) region...

Adversity again... “Hmmfff! Those barrels are too big, man!” Nikon D3S, Nikkor 70-200mm, ƒ/2.8 G VR II lens, handheld. Rider: Are you really sure you know what you’re doing, boy? Horse: Don’t you worry, just hold on tight. I got this! Moral: the horse was right. :LOL: Nikon D3, Nikkor...

The abbey church of Sant’ Antimo in Tuscany (2012). One of my colleagues at the firm, hearing that I was going on a Summer vacation trip to Italy, told me not to miss that, and I’m so glad he did, as I hadn’t planned on including it. The church holds many treasures, including an astounding 12th...

It is a purely “artistic” (if I daresay :rolleyes: ) choice on my part. I wanted the first few rows to be sharp, so that viewers would get a good idea of what the tart looked like, yet I also wanted it to blur away slowly into the background, which I meant to keep super-soft, so that the limit...

Cute bird. The background is a bit cluttered of course, but there is nothing to do about it and it goes well with the plumage, which could use some upkeep... ;)

’fraid so. :LOL:

I'm glad it worked well for you! Did you use an automated focus-stacking function?

Correction: I tried watching and soon gave up. Too many spiders for my taste!

A Carolingian church in the vineyards... September 2019: in the Burgundy hamlet of Igé, stands the Sainte-Bénédicte (yes, a lady saint) church. Already mentioned among the possessions of the abbey of Cluny in 935, its oldest parts are clearly Carolingian, i.e., from the times of Emperor...

The small village of Camboulit in the Aquitaine region (southwestern France) is particular as it includes the romantic ruins of a Romanesque church built during the first half of the 1100s. It is mentioned in 1146 among the possessions of the abbey of Saint Sauveur in the town of Figeac. It was...