Here are a few musings about heritage, wars and buildings as we are entering the new year. Our approach to heritage is rather surprising. Everyone talks about preserving it, as if it were frozen forever, yet the 20th century saw…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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