Miroir, mon beau miroir…

Mirror Side of the Nuremberg Museum of Modern Art

 

Camera: Canon EOS 400D
Exposure: 0.004 sec (1/250)
Aperture: f/9
Focal Length: 17 mm
ISO Speed: 200

Une photo prise devant le Musée d’Art Moderne de Nuremberg en Allemagne, pour satisfaire ma manie des jeux de miroir. Passage au noir et blanc, souligné par un peu de couleur résiduelle…

A shot taken in front of the Museum of Modern Art in Nuremberg, Germany. That was to satisfy my compulsion for ‘mirror games’. I went through B&W filter, highlighted by a slight residual color stain…

Champagne and Raspberry

Raspberry in a Champagne glass

Camera: Nikon D80
Exposure: 0.017 sec (1/60)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 105 mm
ISO Speed: 1250

STORYLINE: 1 month with no girlfriend at hand. Last April, trip to France to catch up a well needed break, and a dying for some quality time with the HER. She brought the fruits, I brought the liquid. Perfect match. It and us. Point / Shoot, in the digital memories.

Path to Stones

Path to Saqqarah

Camera: Nikon D80
Exposure: 1/2500 sec
Aperture: f/3.5
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 100

STORYLINE:
Day trip to Saqqarah, some of the most ancient pyramids of Egypt (please notice the leveling of the pyramids on the opposite of Gizeh pyramids). Took this shot a while ago. I perfectly remember lying on the burning sand to get my perfect angle. Sweet Emotion.

Rice Field

Rice Field

Camera: Canon Ixus 430D
Exposure: 0.002 sec (1/640)
Aperture: f/4.9
Focal Length: 22.2 mm
ISO Speed: ?

Une photo qui date un peu, mais que j’aime toujours autant. Le petit village de Yangshuo au sud de la Chine. Un paysan qui récolte son riz, les pieds dans l’eau. Cliché, au deux sens du terme, certes, mais une image marquante pour moi malgré tout.

An old photo, but I still like it very much. The small village of Yangshuo, south of China. A peasant cropping his rice field, feet in the water. Photo, and “cliché” indeed, but still a touching picture for me.

The Mistake

THE MISTAKE
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Camera: Nikon D80
Exposure: 0.167 sec (1/6)
Aperture: f/22
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 400

STORYLINE:
One afternoon, back from the beach, strong envy and lust of getting a shot I have been thinking about for a long time.
I imagined a grainy black and white with a beautiful flower on the focused foreground that would occult the out-of-focus background story.
It took me a zillions of shot to get what I wanted (and an extremely cooperative model). Bottomline, we both agree that we really like that shot. you ?

PS: As an amateur photograph, I still don’t understand how I had to o down to f22 to get my correct DoF. I was expecting much lower (f9 / f8 maybe). Anyone?
PPS: Photo on Flickr here (with black background - Thanks Jo)