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Adversity, part II Refusal before a fence. The rider was not dismounted, therefore he was allowed to try again, albeit with a penalty of course. And do you see what I mean when I say that, on the cross-country course, the fences are solid and will not yield? Nikon D3, Nikkor 70-200mm, ƒ/2.8 G...

Unfortunate for all of them indeed, but as I said, no one was hurt. Riders do die, however, on the cross-country course, and so do horses sometimes... This is why I call eventing The Sport of Heroes...

Classic yacht sailing remains a sport of wealthy gentlemen, at least where genuine classics are concerned, and not replicas: below, 1918-built yawl Runa IV sails close to the wind in the Morbihan Gulf. At the helm is Bruno Troublé, former America’s Cup helmsman, then director of challenge for...

One of the funniest one-liners I’ve ever heard in a movie was in Ocean’s Eleven, when Elliott Gould’s character, Las Vegas’s casino owner Reuben Tischkoff, makes a passing reference to “the Leaning Tower of Pizza”... :ROFLMAO: No one onscreen seems to notice, and I’m convinced millions of...

Thanks very much Needa. To achieve that in just one exposure, I had to (1) be extremely lucky and (2) use more light sources than I would care to admit! 😮

I venture very carefully in this thread, as there are many macro-photographers here infinitely more qualified than I am (I hate spiders and there are quite a few of those shots above I don’t want to look at! :eek:)... I vividly remember taking the photo of the Christmas candle below. It was one...

One of my tries at traditional, old-school still life: old books, some peonies, a painting by my favorite artist (Alsatian painter Franz Schlitz), a granite head statuette from the Cambodian temple of Angkor Wat, a costume jewellery necklace, and a small, 18th century Chinese box that could, one...

Saint-Hilaire-de-la-Combe, a very old Romanesque church in southwestern France. Built around Year 1000, the village cemetery surrounded it, as was customary for many centuries. It was considered holy ground just like the church itself. For reasons linked to public hygiene and health, regulations...

Adversity... Difficult times on the cross-country course... As they say in the movies, “No horse (nor rider!) was injured during the shooting of these photographs”. Nikon D3, Nikkor 70-200mm, ƒ/2.8 G VR II lens. Nikon D3, Nikkor 200-400mm, ƒ/4 G VR II lens.

What money will buy... In the early 2000s, there was among a certain fringe of the wealthy and fashionable a marked revival of interest for classic sailing yachts. Many of them were refurbished and beautifully restored. However, some of the rich people quickly found out that those boats were...

This may look more familiar to some of you guys... Midtown Manhattan’s Bar américain. The photographic style I went for here is artsy-fartsy. ;) Nikon D3, Nikkor 24-70mm, ƒ/2.8 G lens. Handheld, natural light.

A lovely little angel for the Christmas tree. Made by my wife from (mostly) book pages! She is so much more creative than I —and much better with her hands, too! Every time I try to hammer a nail, I end up with two finger bandages, while she uses the Bosch Pro cordless power drill like a... pro...

A very holy place for all the Benedictine monks worldwide: the crypt under the abbey church of Fleury-sur-Loire (central France), where the remains of Saint Benedict are kept. Nikon Z7 II, Nikkor 19mm, ƒ/4 PC-E tilt-shift lens. Gitzo tripod, Benro geared head. Panorama made of of 5 exposures...

Dressage is the first phase of a three-day event. Elegant, constrained and utterly indecipherable to the untrained eye (not to mention probably boring, unless you get passionately hooked for life right away!), it looks like the absolute antithesis of what eventing is about... Yet, it is the most...

Those old ladies are sometimes difficult to keep track of with our eyes of the 21st century, and it’s even more difficult when two happen to have the same name... Moonbeam of Fife, in the foreground, and Moonbeam V, in the background, racing it out among the islands of the bay of Marseilles...

Back to the old stones... Now, you think this is a gigantic church? Well, you’re both right, because it is enormous, and wrong, because it is only a small part of it, the western end of the church that was there in the Middle Ages... The red sandstone wall that you see is where the three naves...

That’s awfully kind of you to say, Peter, but I don’t deserve it, far from it! Many thanks to you anyway! :giggle: Now, I am into sound quality almost as much as I am into image quality, and it pains me to see all the young ones today listening to their “MP3” music and thinking the sound...

The early Romanesque abbey church of Tournus in Burgundy was built from 960 and completed around Year 1000. A Benedictine abbey, Tournus was one of the most powerful of Mediæval Christendom and even minted its own money. Its church is enormous and spectacular, with a unique vaulting system that...

Eventing can be exhilarating after you cross the finish line... ... but until you do, it does require an enormous amount of concentration and focusing! Both photos taken during an international three-day event at Radolfzell, Germany, around 2010. Nikon D3, Nikkor 70-210mm, ƒ/2.8 G VR II...

Catamarans are very stable... until they aren’t. And then, they capsize brutally and uncontrollably. And of course, they are much more difficult to righten than a monohull, as the two-person crew of this Dart is about to find out for themselves... This was shot in the gulf of Morbihan which I...