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Cityscape

Summer dusk on Charles’ river

Recently I did not had/took a lot of opportunities to practice photography as I used to do when I was abroad…It seems quite usual to be more lazy when back home, the typical “I-have-time, I-can-take-that-picture-tomorrow” syndrome.. I’ll try to do better in 2020…But in the meantime, I still have some archive to explore, like these […]

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Cityscape, Travel

Nearby…

Most of the time, I tend to consider differently images that I’m taking to keep a trace of something personal (family events, friends, kids), the ones that are just for the love of carrying kilos on my shoulder (walks, week-end or everyday’s life) and the ones I’m taking on purpose (portraits, still life, landscapes..). I […]

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Cityscape

5mn to kill

Arrived a few minutes too early to my rendez-vous, I walked along the old remparts of Antibes. As always, I had a camera with me, this time only with a 35mm. I didn’t expected to see waves as there was no wind… Camera on the stones, 64iso to get a long exposure, -2/3ev to keep […]

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Winter twilight over Boston
Cityscape

Blue snow

After the 4th Jan New England snow storm, when the wind was bringing the perceived temperature close to -32celsius, the same two guys were again at their favorite spot to capture the illusion of a warm dusk light…

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Cityscape

Dark ice

New England winter can be a real experience…and taking pictures at night by -22celsius is certainly something to be considered seriously…Multiple clothes layers, multiple batteries, a long preparation for a few hours of silent joy… With a friend, we were two shadows silently capturing Boston lights distorted by the frozen waves of the Charles river… […]

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Boston, 2015
Cityscape

Potentiality

Too often, I feel frustrated when discovering the images that I was the most eager to capture, because of the difference of what I felt when I stopped walking to look through the viewfinder, and what I see on the screen… I’m not talking about technical aspects, no, in fact, it’s more like if I […]

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Cityscape

Circles

As I’m currently travelling and trying to capture new images, here is another memory from the Boston 2015 winter. Charles River was not fully frozen yet, and a group of ducks was visibly enjoying its new playfield!

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Cityscape

White Color Palette

When visiting Boston before our move back in 2014, someone said to us : “if you don’t like New England’s weather, wait 5mn…“ Indeed, weather changes can be spectacular, like just after that first snow storm end of January 2015. However, while the light was warm, temperature was well below zero Celsius, and my fingers […]

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Cityscape

The Moon on the other side

Having the chance to live abroad is obviously a great opportunity to capture images very different from our usual environment. It was the case for me during the Boston historic winter early 2015, when several snow storms brought up to 3m (100 inches) of white powder. While it was a pure logistic nightmare everyday, it […]

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Cityscape

Three little cars.

Maybe because they are unusual, pictures taken from above with a tele lens are often interesting. As I was looking down from the Empire State Building, the traffic flow started to become abstract and aesthetic. I knew I just had to be patient…