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Landscape

El Capitan

On the way from Kayenta to Monument Valley Park, it is difficult to miss the stand alone peak called El Capitan. Imposing block emerging from a flat landscape, there was hopefully some signs of human life to give a sense of scale, otherwise difficult to estimate.

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Landscape

Factory Butte

We were driving on the Utah State Road 24 since Capitol Reef, when we left turned on a dirt road called Coal Mine road to stop the car. Without speaking, we walked a few meters under the summer heat. In front of us, in the middle of a lunar landscape, a gigantic and unexpected vessel…

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Landscape

Yellow Line

What could be the probability of meeting a shiny blue truck fully loaded with green fodder in front of the Capitol Reef red rocks under a dark sky ? … Let’s say it was a good day.

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Abstract, Landscape

Fire Walls

Being at the right place at the right time. That was my precise feeling as the light was firing up the narrow canyon of Lower Antelope. Being at the back of the group, I was able to save a few seconds alone to try to capture a little part of the magic. A few precious […]

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Landscape

Totem Pole

When we arrived at Monument Valley that day, I was not sure to bring back any image. Sky was too white, light was too flat. For sure we enjoyed the spirit of that special place, taking pictures from time to time to be able say, hey, we were there… But finally, not long before leaving, […]

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Abstract, Still Life

The Snow cone

As there was no direct flight from Chicago, we stopped a few hours at Zurich airport. Weather was pretty bad, the snowstorm was running for hours. The bus stopped a few meters from the boarding stairs. Plane was icy, tarmac was snowy, everything was white. Well, almost everything…

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Still Life

Green Rust

A desert clearing at the end of a crossroad, somewhere in the Berkshires, ideal place for an unplanned encounter with unusual models.

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Landscape

The Little Red School

It was almost the end of a photographic journey in the western side ot Massachusetts. During the whole day, we were happy to forget about work, and to enjoy a shared passion for photography. Tired but in peace, while driving back on the Mohawk trail, we stopped close to a small brick house. As we […]

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Cityscape

350, 5th Avenue, NYC

As any other icon, the Empire State Building is a difficult subject for a travel photographer who has limited time and opportunities. How to capture something that might feel slightly different from the other tens of thousands of images taken daily ? There is probably no simple recipe. Great photographers will probably just follow their instinct, and […]