Category — Pictures

We crossed Argentina from North to South this morning by plane. As our Lonely Planet says, this is supposedly the same kind of flight that brought to St Exupery the idea for “Le Petit Prince”… I will trust them…

The arrival to El Calafate is probably one of the most incredible landing we have done so far. On the right side: the andes, lagos of incredible blue and green and endless pampa!!

Great!?

(in the back, 3 pikes, our next destination: Fitz Roy range)

We spent the end of the day walking in Protected Area for birds close to El Calafate:

The view on Lago Argentina

And the birds

Tomorrow, we are going to El Chalten to see the Fitz Roy. Photos will be coming later.

Barbara and Yann

Souvenir from a week end in Gent. The colors remind me of “Girl with a Pearl Earring”, what do you think?

Music to listen: Ali Farka Touré, Niafunké, ASCO

Funny what a cold morning wind and a car’s hood can create: back to geometry, as mentioned in previous post.

Taking pictures is important to me, as much as discovering existing work in photography. You probably have seen some of the pictures I will show you in newspaper, magazine, advertising; they are a key part of information, entertainment. However if you look for the small text hidden somewhere, you will find there are a couple of names that keep coming back: James Nachtwey is one of them.

We had the chance to have a public exhibition of his work in Luxembourg. Even if you think you do not know him, I am sure you have already crossed the path of one of his pictures. They are a testimony to humanity, a reminder of events that would be forgotten without them.

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Not far away from Luxembourg by car, you can easily reach “La Gaume” in Belgium and one of the favorite place of many beer lovers: Orval.

One of the 6 trappist beer in the world (5 in Belgium), it is still made under the supervision of the monastic community (no visits of the brewery are allowed for “simple” tourists).

Orval is a “living” monastery, you can only access the ruins of the old abbaye, the museum and the visitor stand in the church. Still worth a visit, and a trip back home with a trunk loaded of the famous beer.

Just grabbed my bike after work to go and shoot Luxembourg, best thing to do after a hard day. I went back to the Philharmonie, it has been quite a time since I took pictures there. This is definitively a great spot at night, the new buildings offering plenty of opportunities with the huge reflections.

Luxembourg is a nice place to live and even greater if you like walking. The best thing you can do is go to the tourist office and buy the official 171 rambling routes guide. With that little help, you’ll end in place like this. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………

Let’s forget about snow, rain and winter. While digging into my archives, I found this picture I took a while ago.  While not technically perfect, it shows one of the things I like for my pictures: geometry. 

It’s important for a photo to be successful “to take the eyes for a walk”. That is to give some lines, flows, foreground and background, with which looking at the picture is a little trip. As in this example, geometry can also be the meaning. Moss is not a sexy subject but with closeup shots, it oftens reveal a fascinating microstructure.

So everyone: grab your camera, buy a romanesco broccoli and start shooting and eating.