The archetypal Paris fountain is a gift from Richard Wallace, an English gentleman and benefactor of the besieged Paris and Parisians in 1870, the illegitimate son of Richard Seymour-Conway and a man with a complex biography. The fountains were designed…
This new series is meant to explain how I compose my photographs and provide advice to those who need it. Feel free to react, criticise or like. This is the picture: a huge Stone vase in the park in the…
Reminiscent of Neil Young’s harvest and its amazing cover pic, a staple of all record collections owned by people from my generation, my reflection in a vintage doorknob near Denfert Rochereau. Shot with my ancient manual Nikkor O 35mm f:2…
The Pantheon, the ceiling at the entrance, 2013 The Pantheon, ceiling, 2013 – the safety net wasn’t meant to be decorative but I found it did enhance the picture by casting some sort of veil on the ceiling.
French Pantheon, Paris, France, 2013
The Lion in Denfert is the symbol of French resistance in Belfort (one of the 3 districts of Alsace), the only area which resisted the enemy in 1870. A symbol of heroic resistance, the square was renamed from d’Enfer (the…
I am amazed at the amount of filth which can be found in a City like this. Utterly disgusting. Must be something to do with my Northern keep-everything-tidy upbringing.
I know nothing about vintage cars, but I found this one as I was coming out of the Iranian crafts shop, I just had the time to grab my camera, point and shoot, and fortunately, the camera settings were right.
On our way to the Pantheon, a 15 minutes’ walk from where we live, we stopped by this Iranian crafts shop we know well for buying a superb Sirjan kilim carpet a few years ago. There we were greeted very…
35 mm photography with a vintage manual lens. Now you’re talking! Yesterday we went to Bièvres, a small “country” village south of Paris. It is famous for being the hometown of Nicephore Niepce, who invented Photography in 1824. Thank you,…
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