By Paul Perton | Travel Photography
Road trip. What images the words conjure. Places seen, things spotted and mental notes made for next time. Photo opportunities. This one had a simple genesis; a wedding in Johannesburg. And, rather than fly up and back from Cape Town, we opted to treat ourselves a bit; drive a very indirect route up the west […]
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Continuing my series on doors of Provence, here is a traditional chuch door next to a byzantine looking one, just a few meters away. And a little further down the street, this electric transformer with blue diamond door. All pictures made with a Nikon D800e.
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Small villages in Provence are not all what TV movies try to make them look to be. Stone walls are often covered in cracking concrete. Gorgeous wooden doors are not as gorgeous or wooden. But in real life, they’re much better than the sugary images. More varied, more human and more packed with individual stories […]
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Dogs, in some areas of France, are a societal disease. They bark all day long while their owners are at work and crap all over the streets when their owners are home. These garage owners, in an otherwise charming little Provence village, have obviously had enough and wrote two hilariously fierce and rude letters to […]
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How do you know you should seek psychological help for your photo addiction ? When 90 minutes in a plain is too long a period to stay without shooting. Anything goes ! Neurotic photographers will look for any subject to press trigger 😉 Here, I found myself a handsome ghost on a tasteful Ryanair yellow […]
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Walking the streets of Oxford a few days ago (will have more news about this soon), I stumbled upon this mean machine. It was dark grey and looked menacing. So I got close with a Zeiss 25mm Distagon wide open and let the nose become the center of attraction. Back in LightRoom, I accentuated this […]
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Saint Malo is a port on the northern coast of Brittany. It is famous to the French (and thus infamous to the Brits) for having been a main port for “corsaire” ships. A “corsaire” was essentially a privateer, or pirate with a licence. He could capture, plunder, rape and kill for his own gain as […]
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This is a guest post by Paul Perton, a talented English photographer living in South Africa and with a passion for steam trains. A beautiful online essay on this subject is available here : http://issuu.com/paulperton2/docs/saving_steam?e=2443592/4847084 Thanks a lot to Paul for the contribution. We hope others will follow and invite other readers to submit theirs […]
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In the South Eastern corner of France I call home lie a great variety of landscapes ranging from the highest mountains in Europe to the green hilly woodlands of the Var and to the 400 miles of sandy mediterranean beaches. Smack in the middle of this coastal recreational strip, the Rhône river carves a vast […]
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It’d be pretty pompous to pretend you know a city after only 48 hours and write a tourist guide about it. So that’s exactly what I’ll do, sticking to these 3 words : pretty damn good. The rest of this major threat to TripAdvisor, Lonely Planet and The Rough Guide combined is a few pictures […]
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