
My name is Yann, I am a Breton (i.e. a Celt), and I was born in Paris, France. I grew a passion for Art ever since childhood and I have been practising watercolour painting and drawing since the early 1980s.
I have also practised photography since the early 1980s, beginning with a Foca Sport II (an old 1960s French-made camera with a beautiful Angenieux fixed lens). I then practised on a more advanced Canon AE1 Program (from 1981 onwards), and I learned the Art of development in the dark room all by myself, focusing on black & white.

In 1996, I discovered digital photography – being an Internet pioneer – with one of Canon‘s first digital cameras brought by one of his Unisys colleagues direct from Japan: Canon’s Powershot 600. It was using bespoke proprietary tiny floppy disks. The quality was terrific considering the date, and it took digital cameras a long time to catch up with those ancient wonders (half a million pixels overall, but the quality was excellent; maybe the built-in lens did it). I then purchased a Kodak and wasn’t impressed with it, and I went on to use quite a few bridge format cameras from Olympus and a pocket Fuji camera until I purchased a decent DSLR camera by Sony (née Minolta) in 2007. I then decided to pawn my Sony Alpha 100 in 2011 for the amazing Nikon D7000, a mid-level SLR camera which provides really good shots for a very decent price. In December 2012, I exchanged my Nikon D7000 for a brand new Nikon D600, a full-frame SLR camera very similar to the D7000 and more affordable than the top-end Nikon D800.

A few years later I bought the D810, a 36 MP beast. It’s a great camera, almost a medium format full frame job. Its precision and quality are absolutely amazing as in this shot of a sunflower taken last summer in the Ariège.

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Tiens ! Je possède également un Foca Sport II de 1961. Le même que sur la photo. Malheureusement, le mécanisme de défilement de la pellicule a récemment rendu l’âme.
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Pas de problème ça coûte 15€ d’occasion. J’en ai vu un à ce prix la à la foire de la photo de bièvre
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Huh! Im a complete amateur in photography, though I totally admire what you do. It is probably difficult for a Breton to survive in Parisian jungle… : ) Know what I am talking about as I just came back from my fifth visit there *quite spontaneous, as it was planed as a trip to Bretagne…*
Greets for you, Id be honoured if you could visit mine blog and say some things about my amateurs pics taken with an old russian analog 😉
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Bloody well right, a concrete jungle at that. I will check your blog right away. Thanks for the kind words and for stopping by the blog. 🙂
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Hello Yann, I think your blog is fabulous and inspiring. I nominated you for the Versatile Blogger Award. More details on my post : https://happyanggraeni.wordpress.com/2015/03/08/the-versatile-blogger-award/
Congrats..
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Thank you so much Happy. I feel really bad for answering your nice comment only now. I have been very busy lately and I must have overlooked your comment. I am definitely honoured that you have chosen my blog and I will install the bad with pride on my front page. Thank you so much 🙂
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No problem Yann. Take your time.. I like your photography.
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My wife lived in Brittany for a while and now has a deep love for all things Celtic!
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🙂
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Good to meet you. 🙂
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Thank you!
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🙂
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I love your blog and I’m glad I stumbled onto to it. I look forward to following. Beautiful work!
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Thanks ever so much. This is very kind. Have a great weekend
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