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Now, don’t get me started on churches! You know it is my specialty. :giggle: Two photos inside the Benedictine abbey church of Champagne (still operating) in southeastern France, both taken with a Nikon Z7 II, Micro-Nikkor 85mm, ƒ/2.8 D PC tilt-shift lens, Gitzo tripod, Benro geared head...

This is me venturing again (more or less successfully) into the realm of extreme macrophotography: those are grains of uncooked basmati rice shot at about 8:1 reproduction ratio with the bellows. For this one, I took 36 focus-stacked exposures which I had to set manually using the focusing rail...

As I said, I love to do food photography. Just don’t leave me alone too long with the food! The champagne crystal cup is vintage Baccarat from the 1920s, part of a set of twelve that is a family heirloom. And yes, the meat and veggie pie was yummy and no, it did not survive long. ;) Nikon Z7...

Thanks Robin! So there is a majority in favor of the black and white... :)

Faces of eventing II Both photos: Nikon D3, Nikkor 200-400mm, ƒ/4 G VR II lens. Handheld.

One last photo of Mariska racing in the bay of Marseilles, circa 2010. Her owner was Christian Niels back then, and I hear she was put up for sale in 2017. I don’t known if she was indeed sold or not.

I was on another boat following the regatta. The EXIF are lost through the mists of time, but it was one of the following combinations: D3 with 70-200mm, or D3S with 200-400mm (or the other way around), as those were the two bodies and lenses I brought out to shoot. The 24-70 stayed in the bag...

I went to the market one day and bought the most unusual (for me) fruit to make a crazy still life composition with some crazy lighting... The non-fruit background elements I wanted to be really out of focus so that viewers could hardly understand what they are, yet all the fruit in the...

A very romantic Mediæval ruin in Auvergne (central France): the castle of Alleuze. Nikon D3S, Nikkor 24-70mm, ƒ/2.8 G. Handheld.

More product photography: this time, my lovely German bellows. The nicest feature is that it is Z-mount and retains the electronic communication between the lens and the camera on both ends of the bellows —that’s what the black coiled cord does. Unsightly but very efficient, and that’s what...

Some of those attempts came out quite well. You should describe what they show. Some of them obviously look like Italy.

Another nice place to look at Saint Peter’s from a distance is the bridge that leads to Castel Sant’ Angelo across River Tiber. Nikon D3S, Nikkor 70-200mm, ƒ/2.8 G VR II. Handheld.

The tools of a seamstress. All props borrowed from my wife’s workshop room! The two old (19th century) thingies in front are from my mother who had them from hers who had them... You get the idea. Nikon Z7, Micro-Nikkor 105mm, ƒ/2.8 G VR II macro lens, FTZ adapter. Gitzo tripod, Arca-Swiss Cube...

Thanks for your input Peter !

Thank you, Needa ! Faces of eventing... Both photos taken with a Nikon D3, Nikkor 200-400mm, ƒ/4 G VR II, handheld.

Sailing close to the wind on board 12-meter Ikra in the bay of Marseilles.

This is one of the most difficult macros I ever tried to take (I admit I am very far from being a specialist), and it is not really very sharp. It is not an ice cube but a crystal of fleur de sel salt from Guérande in Brittany. I photographed it using my bellows almost fully extended, so we’re...

I have mentioned that my favorite brand of tripods is Gitzo. Well, sometimes, though, you do need to set up a tripod on a table, or very close to the ground, or in a constrained area where there is no space for longer legs... For such cases, and also for tabletop photography, I have this little...

The beetle one is especially good, well done!

Interesting attempts. The last one is the best, obviously. I too, like many others, have hundreds of slides left over from way back when. A few years ago, I acquired the Nikon ES-2 kit to reproduce them on a digital SLR, and as the lens you were supposed to use it with was the 60mm Micro-Nikkor...