By Pascal Ollier | Art & Creativity , Review
For those of you who read my very first article on this blog, “some like it wide”, you may remember that it dealt with my special attraction to wide angle lenses. While I continue to shoot with my esteemed CV 12mm, I have gone one step further and mounted the recent Laowa 9mm rectilinear for […]
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By Pascal Ollier | Travel Photography
After our Summer holidays in Tuscany, we had planned to go to Venice with some friends for a long weekend in the fall.Alas, the Italian health minister issued some stern instructions that one could not enter Italy without a less than 72-hour old PCR test. Our friends balked and stayed home. Since we had been […]
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By Pascal Ollier | Travel Photography
I do not remember when I fell in love with Italy, as it goes back such a long, long time ago. Wherever I go there, granted for short visits, I seem to come across beautiful places, good food and friendly people. A number of years ago, we found a sweet spot to spend some […]
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By Pascal Ollier | Travel Photography
With exhibitions again allowed in Belgium, Autoworld in Brussels has opened a temporary celebration of the Porsche 356, which blows its 70 candles this year. Stemming from the VW Beetle, i.e. with very humble origins, the 356 turned into a real fast car over the years, if not a genuine sports car. Low drag, good […]
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By Pascal Ollier | Opinion , Travel Photography
Photography, beyond the recreation, the pleasure, the excitement, may also at times serve a higher purpose, i.e. to report history. This article will humbly attempt to contribute to this mission. Enjoying a respite in the winter rain, I decided to go and visit Breendonk, a fortress surrounded with water built early in the 20 th […]
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By Pascal Ollier | Travel Photography
A relative of mine wanted to see contrast. He currently lives in the UK, thus wanted to see some good (or better) weather that what he usually faces (no offence to our British readers) over the Xmas period. Having started to look late, there was not much choice left until I came across availability both […]
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By Pascal Ollier | Travel Photography
Brussels is endowed with a permanent automobile exhibition hall around the monument celebrating its relatively recent independence, called “AutoWorld”. Built late in the 19th century for a national exhibition to celebrate the 50th anniversary of said independence, the building houses many cars from one of the largest car collections in the world based close to […]
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By Pascal Ollier | How-To
I had always wanted to “have it all” in one shot. Simultaneously, pano and stitching are too complicated, time consuming for me. When going digital seriously after leaving both my film years and a first dabble with pocket cameras, I screwed a Sigma 12-24 onto a Nikon D 200 first and 300 afterwards. To me, […]
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