February 2012 – UK, London

This little boy was surrounded by pigeons and swans as he had some bread for them. I was actually trying to take a photo of a swan who was walking towards me from a low ground point of view. A moment before I took that shot I noticed a lot of pigeons around that boy, so decided to take a photo of it, in fact the time it took me to change the angle of the camera and the focus/apperture, most of the pigeons had landed, appart from those ones and it worked probably better. It looks as if it was a stop motion photo sequence.

February 2012 – UK, London

This is an old piece of wood with stones embedded into it and used to remove fish scales by rubbing the fish against it. It was on a wall in a London Tapas Restaurant. Actually, quite a nice restaurant so it was a bit awkward to take my camera out and shoot blind up the wall :)

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!

January 2012 – Mauritius

Come to Mauritius and you will see sea Heaven like landscape. This sunset reminds you of that fact.

January 2012 – Mauritius

I liked the contrast between that old and torned light shade and the new light bulb… but the bulb being an ecological one, I felt there was some kind of link between the wood, hay, and low consomption energy… The fact the bottom of the photo is black also contrasts with the white inside of the shade and the bulb.

January 2012 – Mauritius

I took hundreds of shot for that sunset, so much in fact that I started to be blinded by the light of the sun through my lens… I also tend to see sunset from a lens, this is why I have decided from now on to bring with me a tripod and use my remote control!

January 2012 – Mauritius

As I was photographying the stars I played with this palmtree which had a dimmed spot at the bottom, we a few experimental shots I managed to get the right balance between getting the tree light up and still being able to see the stars.

January 2012 – Mauritius

This is a Serin Du cap, feasting on some dogs food left over. I managed to get very close as this bowl was next to a swimming pool… that shot was taken with my water up my waste, not a bad place to wait 30 minutes in the baking sun… I was getting worried for my camera though… I stayed there waiting for the birds to come for long enough my camera was getting almost too hot to handle…

January 2012 – Mauritius

This is a Boulboul, it seemed very happy on that shot, I liked that old garden chair and I took a few shots of different birds waiting there to eat the rice left over by the dogs. I thought it would be an appropriate shot for Valentine’s Day, so Happy Valentine’s Day to every reader! :)

January 2012 – Mauritius

The same Cardinal as with the previous shot and taken the same day. It is waiting for the dog to leave so it can eat some rice. I managed to get quite close, so it must have been very hungry! :)