Always the same pleasure to search for light at the unsharpen position of the lens.

I have in the meantime updated the gallery on the main site. Enjoy.

Instead of the usual gallery of hostess standing like vegetables in front of the new cars or trying to divert your eyes from the fact that all those cars look the same, I decided to follow The Pursuit of Unsharpyness quest with some Bokeh effects from the Geneva Car/Motor/Auto Show.

We have a saying : “A sharp picture or no picture”. It is either spot on or it is a spike, I went to the opposite nothing sharp and I found some pleasure there. A new space filled with bubles, something like. A sort of contemplation.

YOu can find all the techincal details of Bokeh or Boke, as it come from the Japanese on the wikipedia site.

Let me know what you think in the comments section.

Warning : Those pictures have not been taken under the influence of any products, unly the writting of this Post.

I had taken with me a small camera but didn’t inend to do mcuh during the meal I was prepared to enjoy it and foret the camera. Well I almost did but as the atmorsphere was very relaxeded, at tables you could see the flash of people cameras or phone. This is certainely more relaxed that at same place in Switzerland and France where you can hear the flies in the air.

The menu was divided in 2 parts, the first one with the starters, flying onto the table each after ones.  Potato and chicken liver, Cookies and cheese, rocket and sterms, Herb toast with smoked cod roe and Rye with chicken skin and peas

For the main the service slow down but not the creativity as you can with the six dishes below :

Pickled vegetables with bone marrow, Razor Clam with parsley dill and horse radish, Squid and unripe sloe berry with white currrant and pine, Cauliflower and pine cream and horse radish, Pike Perch in cabbages verbena and dill, Wild duck with beets beech and malt.

At the end we had 22 dishes and spent a wonderful long time enjoying them. One of the highlight is taht we choose to get the juice drinks instead of the wine selection.A much lighter during the meal was a good experience. I really enjoyed the cooks coming directly to the table to introduce their dishes.

Thanks to Sally again and to my parents for looking after cheeky Basile. And to Copenhagen for being such a nice city.

I will save you the details you can find them all on their website but this year was specially nice with the extreme cold weather hitting Europe. It was a nice feeling to be indoor for a few hours. Wearing a t-shirt was compulsary as the room was 25 C or something close.

The above picture didn’t make it to my selection for Reuters as it was too close to the final start but I llike the feeling of it in BW.

You can view a slideshow of this year pictures on Reuters archives website.

Started many years ago with an old Rolleicord 6×6 camera and an Horseman field camera, this project was at first a creativity challenge to me. Turning around a tree. Also it was at the early stage of the digital era and I was keen on shooting with BW film. Although my standard format was 35 mm, I have been shooting it on 120 format. I have since then used the excellent Kodak T-Max 100 asa and can’t think of them not producing it anymore.I have not yet done anything with those pictures apart from the webite. As for many things I wait for what I feel the right moment. Maybe an exhibition in a field next to it, maybe somewhere else. You can go to the site and enjoy them here.

For the GPS expert here are the Google maps points