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This is another photo taken from atop the Cap Canaille cliffs on the French Riviera. It is an old photo from September 2008 but I have always been fond of it. :sneaky: Nikon D3, Nikkor 24-70mm, ƒ/2.8 G lens. Handheld, natural light.

Panorama shot of the Gran Sasso mountains in central Italy. I don’t exactly recall the shooting conditions and the EXIF were stripped by PTGui during the stitching process. It was probably just the 19mm tilt-shift Nikkor set on a tripod and shifted horizontally from left to right. I generally...

Thank you Needa!

Crazy lighting: the idea was to try and emulate natural light falling on the subject through shades, and so I cut out black and white cardboard pieces to create the required shadowy areas... Another challenge was to show very clearly the small and quite faint LED lights on the battery pack, and...

I like ruins... I find them atmospheric and romantic. Plus, you can always think up legends and stories about them as you stroll through... unless there already are horror stories about them, of course! That was the case here: it is said that one night during the Middle Ages, the sole cleric...

Typical English eventing: enormous crowds where in other countries, there are only precious few spectators, and countryside furniture on the cross-country course for style... Some postures look very strange and ungracious, but this horse and its rider actually jumped the previous fence...

On large classic yachts, the guy playing the acrobat on the tip of the bowsprit is called “the Number One”, because he is the farthest from the rear of the boat where the helmsman (now often called “the driver”), the navigator and the tactician are. Other crew members are numbered according to...

Remarkable photos, congrats! I have a soft spot for egrets and squirrels. ;)

The quality of the lens impacts directly the quality of the photos. How “good” a photo is (sharpness, color rendition, bokeh, resistance to flare and chromatic aberration, etc.), or how good it should be, is very subjective. About any given photo, some people will say “It’s more than good enough...

Very nice bee.

The road leading up to the Roncevaux Pass in the French Pyrénées mountains: a lovely drive to a historic place. Nikon D3, Nikkor 24-70mm, ƒ/2.8 G lens. Handheld, natural light.

Round objects are difficult to light when they are reflective, because... well, they reflect everything that’s around them, including the lights, the camera, and the photographer himself! Glass objects are also difficult to light in a way that will give them consistency, materiality, because...

The majestic ruins of the fortified Romanesque church of Saint Hippolyte, in Burgundy. It was the church of a Benedictine priory. Can you spot the small decorative bandes lombardes, which we have encountered before? If yes, then you know you are beholding an example of the “First Romanesque Art”...

Two last flower photos from me for the time being. The first one below, the yellow rose, is interesting as it was one of my first attempts at shooting and processing a very large stack, in this case no less than 50 exposures, shot using the focus-stacking function built into the D850. Like my...

In eventing, cross-country courses have at least one body of water, sometimes two, to cross. Most times, it is some artificially created pond, but sometimes riders get to cross entire rivers, which is very spectacular, such as here, in Arville (Belgium): Horses scare easily, which is why...

The gulf of Morbihan (in Breton, “the Little Sea”) in southern Brittany is a very unique place for sailing. A deep bay, almost entirely enclosed and thus protected from the rigors of the ocean, it numbers 365 islands and islets, and still offers very challenging sailing and racing conditions...

That, or some weird compression artifact from the forum... Today, another photo of those calanques I mentioned the other day: a refreshing view in those sweltering August days...! Nikon D3, Nikkor 24-70mm, ƒ/2.8 G lens. Handheld.

Thank you very much, your message is very encouraging. I will upload more and when the time comes, I’ll be happy to help if I can and pass along any tips I may have collected over my 5-6 years or so of practice. :)

Thanks Robin !

I figured it would be something like that. It is really too bad that forums made for photographers cannot be more respectful of the photos that are uploaded to them. Only 500 pixels seems to be doing a slightly better job. On Flickr the photos are compressed as well, even though they tell you...