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Macro is a fun part of tabletop photography. For the picture below, I again shot cufflinks (I know, lame inspiration). The theme that time was “Circles”, and so I took advantage of their shape. All those cufflinks are mine, and they have obviously be worn quite often during my professional life...

Landscapes in black-and-white? Yeah, well, I am still not sure... When you look at this one, it does look good and atmospheric, but I wish you would see the color version... Nature offered me such stunning colors that day! This version pales when compared to the other one. Nikon Z7 II, Nikkor...

Back to the subject of flowers, here are two more taken in my house garden, also lit by off-camera flash, but with settings such as to allow some of the existing natural light to blend in and let us see some of the background (“dragging shutter”, I think they call this technique). I hope you...

The scariest and most heroic part of eventing is the cross-country stage, because the fences there are solid and will most definitely not yield like in show jumping if the horse hits them...(*) For this three-photo illustration taken at an international three-day event at Arville in Belgium in...

It is certainly very wide... The blending looks fine, as far as we can see from forum photos, but is it not lacking a bit in sharpness, or is it just me? Once again, hard to tell from forum photos, with the compression and all... (Darn, they have a Lake Geneva in Wisconsin, too!) ;)

Oh, I totally agree with you! Today’s America’s Cup is a big circus, it’s got very little to do with actual sailing. It’s got more to do with the Wright brothers’ attempts at getting and remaining airborne! I still get my kicks watching and re-watching feature films like Wind and Masquerade —I...

Back to the old stones today with a 2012 photo of the ruined Mediæval castle of Léotoing in the province of Auvergne (central France). Nikon D3S, Nikkor 70-200mm, ƒ/2.8 G VR II lens.

Darn! Sorry. I wish someone had told me yesterday. I tried to do a search but obviously I’m not very familiar with the forum’s search tool yet! If more foliage comes my way, I’ll be sure to post it there. Thanks !

You are absolutely right. I’m glad you spotted that, you do have a good eye! I hoped the white card to the left would bounce back enough light, but it didn’t. I should have used either a more reflective material, like a small mirror correctly angled, or a third light to light the center spool...

This is typical Sardinia: very cute, very old (this one was built around 1050) little churches standing literally in the absolute middle of nowhere, with no settlement of any kind for the next 10 or 15 kilometers... Yet, you do recognize the bandes lombardes decoration around it, don’t you? Yes...

Interesting experience, bluzman, thank you for telling us about it. You’re welcome to post here any sailing photos you may have! :) Below, Nagaïna racing off Marseilles in front of the Château d’If castle and prison, of The Count of Monte Cristo fame... Below, the jury boat at the starting...

All right, foliage being apparently not entirely prohibited from this thread, I will post a couple of photos that illustrate some of the possibilities when shooting closeup or macro outdoors. Because you are creating all the light that will appear in the photo (the shots below were taken in the...

Looking in the same direction... A young female eventer on the show-jumping course. Nikon D3, Nikkor 200-400m, ƒ/4 G VR II lens. A rider (Geoffroy Soulez) in the ford on the cross-country course in Pau. Nikon D700, Nikkor 200-400mm, ƒ/4 G VR II lens. British rider Simon Grieve exiting...

Today’s photo shows a scenic part of coastal France, near the city of Marseilles on the Mediterranean: the “Calanques” area. Calanques, in the Provençal language, are narrow and deep inlets carved by the sea in and around soft limestone cliffs. The calanques are usually difficult to access by...

The dust jacket from my book on eventing: Fontainebleau, France, 2013. Nikon D3S, Nikkor 70-200mm, ƒ/2.8 G VR II lens. Burghley (UK), 2013. Nikon D3S, Nikkor 70-200m, ƒ/2.8 G VR II lens.

Sailing has been the sport of my life. I practiced it at a fairly high level (back in the day, there were no “professional” sailors, and those who made a living out of it were frowned upon), which means that I had no time and no inclination to take photos while I was doing it. Later, and for a...

Here are a couple more... If I am allowed foliage in this thread (am I?), I will submit a couple... Nikon D850, Micro-Nikkor 105mm, ƒ/2.8 G VR macro lens, handheld. Natural light. Nikon Z7, Micro-Nikkor 60mm, ƒ/2.8 D lens, FTZ adapter. Handheld, lit by off-camera flash.

Then, during the last yearly meeting of our regional team in one of the non-profit heritage organizations I work for as a pro bono photographer, I was asked to take portraits of everyone (about 100 people), all in the same format and the same lighting (mug shots, really!), for an organizational...

I don’t do portrait. Not that I’m not attracted to the genre —I am. And it also provides plenty of opportunities to be creative with flash lighting... I think I would enjoy interacting with a live subject, too. But it seems no one willing to have their portrait taken ever found their way to me...

The architectural style that would later be called “Romanesque” (the word was not coined until the 19th century) was originally brought into France by Italian architects and masons from the region of Lake Como, where Romanesque was really invented in the 900s, then spread around in Italy, France...