20 Feb 2012
January 2012 – Mauritius
This is the last shot I took on that trip to Mauritius, on my way to the airport I stopped by the motorway to take it. There was some sugar canes in the foreground, but to get both the sun light and the sugar cane light up correctly was impossible… This was my first shot where I tried to compromise on exposure to get both. In the end, I converted it in black and white and intensified the contrast. What’s funny is that the main area of light was actually moving quite fast as on another shot it was much further right!
30 Jan 2012
January 2012 – Mauritius
I am still experimenting with light reflections in the sea… and still taking a risk with my lenses so close to the waves ;). This is a very abstract shot, and I am aware it won’t be everyone’s cup of tea. But that I like about that shot is the very few color it has, and the kind of symetry with the light at the bottom and top of the photo. They make me think of butterflies.
22 Jan 2012
January 2012 – UK, Esher
At the top of a hill in the Claremont Park there was this tall tree which was covered in large and flat mushroom. I framed the photo so it looks as if the bottom left branch almost stick out of the picture.
8 Jan 2012
December 2011 – France, Lyon
The french band Edge was playing in an old pub in Lyon, in between the drummer and the two lead guitarists there was this old Guiness advert under that old lamp… basically everything felt old and as I was waiting in this corner to get the right shot of the drummer, I thought this view summed up a lot of old pubs I have been too in England where music band where playing…
7 Jan 2012
December 2011 – France, Lyon
Another photo I took from the same corner I was hidding from, I liked the pints of guiness by the feet of the musicians and all the guitar cords paper wraps. I liked you could also only see the feet of the musicians, but someone with this photo you get all the information you need to know what is happening and where you are. I took a few shots which are more close up, but in the end I prefer that first shot because I feel the legs brings something to the photo by making it slightly off centered and, for me, it almost feel as if you are seeting with them!
6 Jan 2012
December 2011 – France, Lyon
This is the drummer of a French band called Edge, I liked the expression on the drummer’s face as he looked he was having as much fun as all the people dancing in front of the stage!
5 Jan 2012
December 2011 – France, Lyon
These are the musicians of a french band called Edge, most of them, if not all of them are also part of another upcoming Pop Experimental French band called B R OAD WAY (www.youtube.com/user/vjraize). There is a lot I wanted to “say” with this photo, first I wanted to capture the lead singer doing something else than singing, here, in between two songs and tuning his guitar it somewhat feels more personal, especially with this wodden pillar in front of him which gives a feel of a stolen shot. I also wanted to capture the whole band, hence the wide angle. A few shots before that one, I tried not to include the video projector screen on top of them, but in the end I liked how it seems to draw a line above all of them, almost giving some kind of perspective to the photo. Finally, I noticed the Beattles’ flyer and I thought it could be a nice “clin d’oeil”, with only the lead singer in focus it helps draw the attention to it. If there is anything I am not completely happy with this photo is that I would like for the wodden pillar to be straight… but then again it does work with the video screen on the ceilling… And if you want to see a very far fetch sign in the photo, you could say that the pillar + video screen + arm of the singer forms an F, which is the first letter of his name, Fabien… in fact I can see most of his name letters around him! but, no, I didn’t think of that when taking the photo! ;)
5 Dec 2011
November 2011 – UK, London
I first took a photo of the two lamps on the left, on their own, but I prefered this setup, as it kind of repeat the main two component of the photo, the round lights and the lights from the bridge. I felt that the roof also helped framing the picture, What I like about this photo is that it looks as if it was a montage… but it isn’t :)
It also looks like it is in black and white, but again, it isn’t. So that’s echoes that double theme in this photo.
3 Dec 2011
UK, Surrey – November 2011
That river really had a ghost feel with all the fog, everything was softer but also much less defined!
2 Dec 2011
UK, Surrey – November 2011
On a foggy sunday afternoon, what better things to do than walking in a field with a camera? appart maybe being by a fire in a pub with a beer? ;)
29 Nov 2011
UK, Surrey – November 2011
Those web were really interesting, you wouldn’t usually notice them, but it was a very foggy and wet day… I liked how the grass background kind of echoed the finer web lines. For this photo I boosted the contrast to really highlight the web.
23 Nov 2011
November 2011 – Mauritius
On that shore there are hundres of oursins, so armed with some boots I carefully walked among those sharp little beasts, the sea was coming back in when I took that shot and the current was very strong, but I wanted to take a photo of that dead coral reef that was standing out from the beach, although non of the shot I took of it in color where interesting, I liked how the oursins peppered the undersea view… I also wanted to give the shot a bit of texture by focusing on its surface ripples…
