By pascaljappy | Travel Photography
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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In my previous post, Lapland in Monochrome, I argued that photography in the repetitive landscape of Lapland was best captured in monochrome, particular under the very flat light that an overcast sky can produce. But that’s a bit of an over simplification. First, as the picture above reveal, the sun can, and often does, shine, […]
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What is not to love about the Lofoten? That is, if you have (unlikely) great weather, a (hard to find) photo friend, and (easy enough) time without interference from other photographers… Well, the Lofoten are a mix of civilised country with good infrastructure, and very sparse support points. On the one hand, roads are very […]
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Sol does play some wicked tricks. Everyone of His 12 year-long heartbeats sends waves of dread and excitement to us camera-toting earthlings. Excitement and anticipation of the auroral displays that accompany the periodic peaks in solar cycles. Dread and fear of clouds and other potential hinderances. This winter, at the peak of Sun cycle 24, […]
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What’s not to love with the Lofoten? Well, to begin with, the weather. Especially in February, when the key question is: what’s is going to be worse, the cold, the storm or the snowfall? Or all three? It seems like the Lofoten are the world’s centre of storm-suit usage. In the immortal words of Charlie […]
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