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Oct. 09, 2014
... An DisTroad ... The Gh0st ... Le ReVenant ...
. … “DisTroad” is a Breton word meaning litterally “Without (dis) Foot (troad)” … It is also the word used to name Ghost (ReVenant in French language) … … “Un…
Aug. 11, 2014
Remanence
When you remove a magnetic field from a ferrous material, the remaining magnetisation is called “remanence”. I believe that some images stick in the mind in the…
Jan. 06, 2013
When god created woman, She made The Real Thing
An interesting fact is that neither model (the hand of “god” and “Adam”) were familiar with the Sistine Chapel image. To make matters worse, they both live in a…
March 08, 2012
Lightroom 4 testing
There are slightly different ways of dealing with lighting and tonal adjustments in the latest version of Lightroom. I thought I'd try them out on an image…
March 09, 2011
That time of the year again
As you know, I hate having my photo taken. It's one of the reasons I started the whole photography thing - to get on the correct side of the camera. I'm sure…
Oct. 20, 2010
More from the back of the electronic sofa
Fishing out more pics from the back of my electronic sofa - I just love that expression of Carole's. In lieu of the catharsis for a photographer's soul (sitting…
Oct. 18, 2010
Housecleaning
Go ahead and enlarge me. You know it makes sense. In a foul mood. Excellent time to clean up my friends' list. I removed all PB members with whom there has been…
Feb. 11, 2010
Humour me: Revenant, Rousseau and Saint Augustine - in that…
The whole username and profile picture thing here has been bugging me, surrounded as I am by cats, sunflowers, wasps, poodles, swans and dolphins and other…
Sept. 02, 2009
Roussillon
Roussillon is one of those bijoux (read: “fake”) tourist villages that enchant tourists and attract expats. The village is unusual in lying on vast deposits of…
Sept. 01, 2009
La Cathédrale d'images
At the end of the 1950s Jean Cocteau directed one of his little follies, le Testament d’Orphée , and roped in his buddy, Picasso, for a touch of artwork. I’m…
Aug. 09, 2009
Self-expression
Tired of using words such as ‘last’ and ‘final’, as in ‘the last full moon I’ll see in Greece’, ‘the final drink with my Greek friends’. There is no consolation…
Aug. 08, 2009
Floccinaucinihilipilification
Was sitting here this morning, thinking of a title, and I came up with this. Very apt, in the circumstances.
Aug. 07, 2009
Friday Fun: why I’m called “revenant” - a true shaggy dog…
Are you sitting comfortably? Then I shall begin. Once upon a time, I discovered a great web community for amateur photographers called Photoblog, and so I…
Aug. 06, 2009
No office? No title
There's a very tasteless and very funny French joke which I'll spare you, but the punchline goes: “Right! No arms? No chocolate”. Seemed appropriate given the…
Aug. 05, 2009
Derma
There is something physical in women that never fails to fascinate, excite and enthrall me: their skin. Never mind eagles, penguins or the human eye, use a…
Aug. 04, 2009
Women and flowers
I rarely post images of my friends and never of my family. I can't reconcile myself to the complete lack of privacy in blog. Anyway, I'm leaving soon. My house…
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