Category:Photography

January 7, 2026

Studio portraits: shaping a relationship with light

Studio portraits are sometimes a bit of a challenge. They are part of these thing that look simple and straightforward and are anything but...

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January 7, 2026

Doing differently: adapting to the snow storm

Today’s daily writing prompt is ‘What could you do differently?’ but right now it’s more like ‘What must you do differently?’  Doing differently: adapting...

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December 30, 2025

A tourist’s look at the Eiffel Tower

Finding a subject for a tourist’s look at the Eiffel Tower doesn’t require much effort. Since I’ve remained one in my own city, I’m...

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November 26, 2025

What Makes a Successful Professional Studio Headshot?

Professional studio headshot photography needs to match certain specific criteria if you want it to be successful. In this article, I’ve summarised some of...

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November 25, 2025

High-Speed Photography: Capturing the Fountain of Explorers

No digital trickery, computer doctoring, or AI nonsense on this High-speed photography shot of the Fountain of Explorers – just a slight crop on...

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November 18, 2025

Monument to French Mothers: a Controversial Parisian Tribute

The Monument to French Mothers is one of these places in Paris that tourist circuits and guidebooks are overlooking. Tucked away in its namesake garden...

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Light Painting in Paris
October 22, 2025

Light Painting in a Paris Tunnel

Miguel Couturier from OI-Paris.com organised a light painting photography session in one of the abandoned tunnels of the Petite Ceinture airway network in Paris....

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September 24, 2025

Can Poetry Exist Beyond Words?

On Saturday evening, we went to see and listen to our friends Dario Costa and Jean-Louis Baille in “An Interview with Joseph Java”, a...

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September 3, 2025

Lorient Submarine base, bunkers, WWII relics and flip flops

Lorient ‘La Base’, aka Lorient Submarine Base is a major historical site built by the German army between 1941 and 1944 during World War II...

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July 10, 2025

Pointillism Painting With My Camera

Pointillism is, according to Sotheby’s, ‘a revolutionary painting technique pioneered by Georges Seurat and Paul Signac in Paris in the mid-1880s. Yesterday, I discovered it...

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