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Spring is here at last, after months of hail, rain and snow. Here’s my selection. No need to add many words to that. Jardins Albert Kahn – Boulogne Ditto Giverny, Monet’s gardens Wild violets in the forest in Fontainbleau Tulips, Albert Kahn’s gardens.
Not an easy challenge, Ben’s smile. I rarely show pictures of people I know, unless they are public. Above, a picture of this year’s class from the Advanced Master in Digital Business Strategy I’m heading on the Paris Campus of Grenoble Management School. As the picture is already online, no worries. Chinese New Year, 2017. We missed this year’s version. For some reason they scaled it down dramatically even though the event is getting more and more popular every year. […]
I discovered the Ariège region in the Pyrenees 15 years ago. My wife’s family is from there, I didn’t know the area, which was pretty much deserted from the 1920s onwards. Our village is named Augirein, there are 70 inhabitants in that village. Now you must imagine that in the 1900s they were over 1,000 over there.
I’d rather be on the the beach. We’ve had 100 days (!) of rain and snow [as much as in a full year] and we are sort of fed up with it. Sub zero temperatures are for eskimos, I’d rather be in the sunshine on the Riviera (even though it’s not very sunny over there at the moment, but don’t tell anyone!)I could do with a stroll on Ile Ste Marguerite, opposite Cannes. The Wife and I have been desperate […]
The E.N.A (National School of Administration) in Paris is located in the former buildings of the so-called “Colonial School”. Fig trees and Moorish buildings would give you the impression that you are out of this part of the world, in Algeria [Sept 2017] Even closer to my block of flats, St Dominique, a church which was built in 1914. Wrong timing it was, for sure. The builders had to put down their tools and resume work in 1921. The all-concrete […]
Today’s challenge is “a Face in the Crowd” although I decided to rename it “Faceless in the Crowd” as the challenge is about showing people in crowds whereas their faces aren’t visible. I went back to my files and found plenty of these. Like the one above showing the parade for Bastille day. I managed to shoot those characters at an angle so that none of them is recognisable. Let alone the other characters in the background. For this picture, […]
Today’s challenge is “Sweet” and it’s a bit of a challenge now that I’m gluten intolerant. You won’t get many more pictures of these delicious desserts I used to dote on. All is left is fresh fruit and the good news is I love fresh fruit!
Following in Krista’s Winnipeggian — not sure about the adjective — footsteps, only under slightly milder climes, here is the exact oppositre of the empty streets of the Capital of Manitoba in the midst of Winter, even though I managed to find an angle in the following picture, which would give you the wrong impression that the City is empty save two lovers. A wrong impression because on that day — two weeks ago (Jan 28, 2018) — the City […]
Today’s theme was about Jen’s daughter clutching a Teddy bear in her arms. I found that picture of a little girl hugging a kitten in my portfolio. I love the kitten’s expression.
This week’s topic is variations on a theme. This made me think of a recent visit to the Paris Natural History Museum where all sorts of species are presented. Some are fake plastic replicas, some are – quite realistic – stuffed animals like these North African lions (extinct). A Hyena, not yet extinct nor endangered but diminishing numbers.
