By pascaljappy | Art & Creativity
A couple of posts ago, I lamented the disappearance of light and colour after a storm. Predictably, for the South of France, colour and blue sky didn’t take very long to reappear. Is that better, though? 😉 “Make up your mind, already”, you’ll be thinking, by now! Yes, yes, I’m typing this under a […]
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By Dallas Thomas | News , Travel Photography
Marseilles has been a place of mystery and intrigue to me for years. I’m not sure if it came from movies depicting the Marseilles of old (and in some areas still this is the case). The images and atmosphere were always as scary, crime ridden and of a dangerous city. And yet beautiful, given its […]
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By pascaljappy | Travel Photography
After a walk in the vines and some architectural photography in Aix-en-Provence, here is the third and last “leftover pics” post I’ll be publishing about the OTUS 28. This is a biggie …;) The lens is large and its possibilities even more so. So let’s honour this fact with a large post. I’ll mostly shut […]
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By pascaljappy | Opinion
Look carefully. Would you buy a print of this photograph ? Some readers will love it, others will hate it. As a whole, though, I expect some uninvolved mental “Yes” to be going on. “Would you pay 300€ for a 20″ piezzo print?” is getting more concrete and, with a bit of marketing, would maybe […]
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By pascaljappy | Travel Photography
For urban sociologists (does that exist ? 😉 ) Marseilles must be an ideal playground. I’ve never seen a city change this fast or as profoundly. Dear Susan Sontag would probably disapprove but I can’t resist taking photographs of the city purely to note its evolution every time I visit. All the area between the […]
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By pascaljappy | Opinion
A recent trip to streets of Marseilles, the vibrant Mediterranean capital of France, was a thought-provoking illustration of the age-old debate: colour or black & white ? The city is both very graphic, bathed in vertical sunlight (in the summer months, at least) and also very colourful. What form of photography best describes this ? […]
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By pascaljappy | Opinion
In recent weeks, I have become somewhat obsessed with the idea of a Leica Monochrom (M246). Paired with a Zeiss Distagon 35/1.4 ZM, the most natural, delicate and transparent lens I have ever used, bar none, it is simply mouth-watering for someone who’s main interest in photography is the interplay of light and matter. Fortunately […]
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By pascaljappy | News
This was our first warning. The sound of sirens and rotations of a chopper made us look for signs of smoke or worry about a serious road accident. Both wild fires and road casualties are unfortunately a regular part of life in this neck of the woods. 4 years ago a huge fire […]
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By pascaljappy | Travel Photography
There are few urban photography experiences more pleasant than soaking up the last drops of sunlight on a summer evening in a Mediterranean city such as Marseilles. Streets lighting-up as the shadow of the Earth rises above the horizon, cafés filling-up with happy life forms, bathers and fishermen returning to their homes with […]
Continue readingBy pascaljappy | News
If you’re thinking Marseilles is a rat hole riddled with gangsters living of drugs, well … you’re not entirely wrong 😉 But you’re not entirely correct either and the city also has beautiful features, a fantastic setting and interesting history. After WWII, so many people had no houses that the minister in charge of housing […]
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