Romantic Brittany – Abbaye du Beauport

I’m just developing the photos from our last holyday, in July. We went in Bretagne, north west France, discovering traditions, nature… and good food, of course.

One of the firsts days, we stopped near Paimpol, in the the Côte di Goëlo, north of Saint-Brieuc. And, in a nice sunny day, we went to Beauport . . . → Read More: Romantic Brittany – Abbaye du Beauport

Children in Barcelona

A cloudy day during our last trip, in Barcelona. Plaça de Sant Felip Neri, near the cathedal, in the Barri Gotic (the medieval nuke of the city).

A group of children play, run and shout in the old, fashionable place. Maybe they were pupils from the near school.

Normally, I don’t like take photos . . . → Read More: Children in Barcelona

Snow over Randers

After some very cold days, finally we have reached the meltin point again… gaining a span of snow.
And today a warm, heavy, wet snow grab and hugs everything.

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D700 at 3200ISO, 17-35mm f2.8 AFS at 35mm, f4, 1/20sec, bias 1/3EV

Of course, with a nice wheather like this, we went to Randers’ downtown, through the swamp along the Gudenå (the river that lead the sea here in the fjord).

Just out of home, the landscape was so:

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D700 at 800ISO, 17-35mm f2.8 AFS at 35mm, f4, 1/100sec, bias 2/3EV

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D700 at 800ISO, 17-35mm f2.8 AFS at 35mm, f4, 1/100sec, bias 2/3EV

And the swamp looks like a white Christmas lanscape…
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Mønsted kalkgruber

Last September, at the beginning of the bad weather weekends (actually, it isn’t finished yet), the only choice to have a walk was going underground.
In the actual sense of the word…

We went to Mønsted (few kilometers east of Viborg), where there’e some old limestone mines, active til thirty years ago.
With about four kilometers’ path under the groundlevel, with many galleries and a pair of little river… mostly without any light.
At the entrance, there’s a completely useless map:
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So, I carried my D700, some prime lenses… and I hoped the 6400ISO was enough…
Actually, I have a couple of photos with flash, but the atmoshere we breath is all in the ambient-light shoots.
All BW, of course, to keep the nice contrast we see.

Ok, let’s go in…
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D700 at 400ISO, 50mm f1.4 AF, f2.8, 1/500sec, bias -2/3EV

Following the path…
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London’s users

In the third part of the trip, we meet the “users“.
Not simple tourists, nor people who only walk around.

But who use what London offer: museums, exhibitions and shops.
Every time “captured” in the very moment when they look, chose, admire and… are surprised.

Another BW photos, taken with the “normal” lens, except a pair of wide views, in which the low end of the zoom was very useful.

Let’s start, in the National Geographic’s store (in Regent’s St.).
A lot of nice photos, and more visitors.

london, national geographic store

D700 at 800ISO, 50mm f1.4 AF, f4, 1/60sec, bias 0EV

london, national geographic's shop

D700 at 800ISO, 50mm f1.4 AF, f2.8, 1/125sec, bias 0EV

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London’s people

This is the second selection from our little London’s Easter holyday (as introduced in the London’s soul).
Organizing the photos, I’ve discovered I had taken only people’s images.
It’s very uncommon for me. More often my photos exclude every human being.

But, here… Another people’s images, still londoners.
Maybe here I’m able to describe better the different kind of human beings that is possible to meet in London.

The City is one of the world financial’s hearts (and of the world’s crisis, of course).
There you can find people like him…

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D700 at 200ISO, 105mm f2 AF, f2.8, 1/800sec, bias 2/3EV

…Or like him (here in front of the National Gallery)
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D700 at 400ISO, 105mm f2 AF, f2.8, 1/4000sec, bias EV

Or, like complement of the many, intrusive, videocameras that follow you everywhere, people like him:
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