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The Art Nouveau movement influenced design and architecture all throughout Europe. From metro stations to churches, to pop culture, the impact of Art Nouveau in Montmartre is ever present. Art Nouveau in Montmartre Saint Jean de Montmartre Art Nouveau is ubiquitous in Paris. Opposite the Abbesses metro station in Montmartre, there is this church. It is an austere yet beautifully crafted and picturesque church named Saint Jean de Montmartre. It was made of cement – not concrete – a special […]
Capturing Morocco’s spirit through dramatic night shots and candid market scenes, showcasing vibrant life in Morocco photography. Capturing the spirit of Morocco (photography) At nightfall, fishermen sell their fish right outside the port. Morocco has a massive and vital fishing industry that focuses on the production, processing, and exporting of fish in the European market. Morocco is considered the largest fish market in Africa, with the fish production estimated around 1.37 million metric tonnes Zillions of gulls then raid the […]
This Goosehead high cuisine headline could be a joke but it’s not. Têtedoie, aka Goosehead in English, has nothing to do with a wild goose chase. It’s merely the name of a chef in Lyon. And I assure you we weren’t served goose head either. Our lunch was very good indeed. The restaurant is very trendy, on the heights of Fourvière, the hill above the old City of Lyon. Christian Têtedoie has opted for a very 70s vintage decor. Here […]
Photography calls for a keen eye. One even says that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I’ve also heard it rumoured that painters weren’t really painting with their hands but with their eyes. And I must admit that as a watercolourist this is exactly what I’m doing. To a large extent, what I do with my photography is very much along those lines. As I stated a couple of times already, I’m pretty much of a painter with […]
Beauty, it is said, is in the eyes of the beholder. I started collecting a list of my most liked pictures on Flickr and the result is not what I was expecting. When I compare it to my own favourite list of pictures on my Flickr profile page, I realise they are completely different. A list of my most-liked photos on Flickr – Yann Gourvennec photography There is a saying according to which, it’s every man to its tastes. When I discovered […]
Here is an account of a lovely sunny afternoon in the country, at Auvers-sur-Oise, where Vincent Van Gogh lived and eventually, took his own life. An Afternoon With Vincent Van Gogh Yes! This is the right town hall. That of Auvers, painted by Vincent. Luckily, the local officials had planted a few sunflowers opposite the building as I shot that picture and it was still Summer… nice touch for visitors isn’t it? And God knows there are visitors from all […]
I love the odd Dutch Angle in my photos. It’s a different way of framing pictures and brings a bit of change compared to trivial portrait or landscape pictures. Often, one wants to take a picture and wonders: should this be a portrait or landscape picture. That doesn’t make for many options but rest assured there are alternatives. Enters the canted angle. Dutch angle and Dutch tulips Above is a version of a Dutch tilt, a very apt one with […]
A miniature effect or tilt-shift, is a photography technique aimed at making the photography of, for instance, a landscape look like a scale model. Tilt-shifts change the focal plane and depth of field in a photograph. A focal plane is the plane that the focus perpendicular to the axis of the lens on a camera. The tilt defines what part of the photo is sharp, whereas the shift determines the framing of the photo. With a dedicated tilt-shift lens, the […]
Casa de Argentina en Paris is the pavilion of the Argentine Republic at Cité Universitaire, the international varsity campus of Paris. One day, as we were taking pictures with my friend Olivier around the campus we stopped by the Casa as we had heard the sound of tango music. As we went in, Josefina welcomed us. She was the organiser of this tango session within the pavilion. As it happens, Josefina was dancing alone, which reminded us of a famous […]
The Eiffel Tower (The Nits – Les Nuits / 2005) The Nits is a Dutch pop band I dote on very much. My favourite album is Les Nuits, a song sung in French which sounds beautifully ungrammatical. My favourite song in that album is the Eiffel Tower. I painted a watercolour based on that song. The rendition below isn’t up to scratch but it’s all I have now to remind me of that painting who belongs to my friend Jerome. […]
