Monthly:September 2013
It rained so much on that day it turned the whole place into a real-life swimming pool. Here is a series of photos taken in and around a swimming pool within the premises of a private property. As the water was at body temperature, I used the condensation on the windows to create patterns or effects. Friends talking outside the pool, blurred by the condensation on the windows of the pool. The reflection of the ceiling in the pool was very […]
A little while ago, I took a whole set of pictures from Jian and Nicolas’s wedding. Jian is from Beijing and we have known her for 6 or 7 years now. She has kindly agreed to let me share some of her pictures with you. This was my first go at wedding photography, and also flash portrait photography, and it served as a test as much as it was meant to give a hand to my friends. My preferred shot […]
This week’s browsing has taken me to Sylvie Cathou Colleu’s website. She is a multi-faceted artist with an inclination towards Photography. I chose her horse picture to illustrate this post as I really liked the way she had blurred the scene therefore turning a snapshot into a true work of Art. She exhibits at Expositions at “La Galerie” in Hossegor in the Basque country. Her website is available at http://www.sygacathou-photos.com and her Facebook page can be found here.
“Couserans” is the name of a province within the district of Ariege, some sort of indomitable Gauls type of area in which things look, to the untrained eye, exactly how they used to be in the past. This is our safe haven in the Pyrenees, where we have our mountain house, a place which serves as an antidote to our modern and hectic life. Each year, a pageant is organised in Saint Girons (above), at the foot of our mountains, […]
Bears were reintroduced in the Pyrenees in 1996 (See Julia Stagg’s account here) and although our house is right there in the middle of “bear country” I must admit that I have never seen or heard one, even though I go out rambling and cycling a lot in that area. Yet, on a starry night, I spotted Ursa Major (a.k.a. the Big Bear). > Read on: Julia Stagg’s novels set in a fictional mountain village of the Pyrenees named “Fogas”
