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20 décembre 2025

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This Winter, we definitely learnt to enjoy a blue

This Winter, we definitely learnt to enjoy a blue sky when we got one! I don't know how but Spring finally found its way (I took this very seasonnal pic almost one month ago at a wedding), trees are now blooming everywhere!

By the way, an almond tree and a blue sky: do you also see this very Van Gogh vibe?

#blossom #montpellier

No February without mimosa 🏵️ #mimosalover #prov

No February without mimosa 🏵️

#mimosalover #provencevibe #southfrance #yellowlover

Another glance at my very first color hunt with hu

Another glance at my very first color hunt with husband and friend (see corresponding reel if you haven't)!

It was for me another opportunity to get used to my new "personal-purpose dedicated camera" and I must say I am completely in love with it 💕

I realised last summer that troughout the years, my professional practice has quite logically influenced my personal one. Instead of shooting only with a 45 mm (90 mm equivalent on full frame) like I used to (and still do for portrait photoshoots), I found myself often mentally framing a bit wider. It is something that I clearly did again during this walk, and it's also happening more during my wedding coverages too (though not as much, since switching from a 45 mm to a 17 mm is a bigger gap).

For this walk, I paired my camera with 2 analog lenses and used a lot my brandnew 28 mm (56 mm equivalent). Like the camera, I had only tested it once since buying it two weeks ago (this rainy January weather didn't motivate me much), and I'm very happy with the results I got, even wide open!

Regarding the process on aiming for a specific color while walking through familiar streets and the vintage market, it was exactly the kind of experience I needed to regain motivation to shoot more for myself (and not only for clients). Living from your passion is truly a blessing but sometimes, when it becomes your job, you can lose a bit of interest in taking pictures for yourself or feel creatively exhausted. In this situation, I highly recommend this kind of exercise!

[Pictures taken with my digital Olympus Pen-F + Olympus analog lenses: 28 mm f/2.8 and 50 mm f/1.2]

Last Sunday, I took advantage of a rare sunny day

Last Sunday, I took advantage of a rare sunny day to experience a special photowalk through Montpellier's historic center and the Peyrou vintage market with @anotherfilminthebox and @suzon.bastide. The idea was to focus on a single chosen color during the whole photowalk, inspired by what @visualsbydoud and other talented people do from time to time. Quite hard, to be honest, but so much fun that I already want to go for another one!

For this very first color hunt, I went with pink, Suzon chose yellow and Romain had to find green elements (maybe the hardest color if you don't rely on the foliage -and once you've shot 1 or 2 old doors! 😁).

[Pictures taken with my digital Olympus Pen-F + Olympus analog lenses: 28 mm f/2.8 and 50 mm f/1.2]

#colorhunt #colorhunters #olympuspenf #olympuslovers #photochallenge

To follow yesterday's post with my first photo tes

To follow yesterday's post with my first photo tests for the Olympus Pen-F (2016) and analog Olympus 28 mm f/2.8 lens, here are some other pics I shot during the golden hour, in a very different vibe because I could play with the light a bit more. We almost couldn't tell we had a heavy rain a few hours earlier...

Now I can't wait to do photowalks alternating with my analog 50 mm f/1.2 (as it's hard for me, sometimes, to feel so far from my "target")!

#montpellier #photographemontpellier #urbanphotography #photourbaine #igersmontpellier

Today, after a meeting I took profit of a few rays

Today, after a meeting I took profit of a few rays of sun (between two phases of deep rain) to test my brandnew (but 10 y.o.) Olympus Pen-F and analog Olympus 28 mm f/2.8. With all the rain falling these last days, I still hadn't planned a real photowalk, so I was really happy to finally use my camera outside!

I slowly got used to the body's dials and the lens' rings. I must say I'm quite satisfied with the result (even at f/2.8) even if I didn't shoot incredible pictures. I just tried different things to test the bokeh and sharpness of the lens and also, I really wanted to seize the moment as I hadn't done solo photowalks for maaaaaaany months...

Due to the late afternoon, the sun had already fallen behind the trees of the Public Garden, but stay tuned for tomorrow's post to see nice light contrasts in Montpellier's streets! 😉

#montpellier #photographemontpellier #naturephotography #photodenature #plantlovers

I took this very wintry view last Sunday, just bef

I took this very wintry view last Sunday, just before a pregnancy photoshoot at Plage du Petit Travers.

For the little story, to reach the beach I took alley 76 from the parking, the same one as during my previous shoot last November. Of course, all the golden leaves were gone: it was still nice, but it was missing that special vibe I had loved. Once on the beach, I decided to head back to the parking via alley 75 to see which alley, from 74 (that I already know well) to 76, would offer the best background for my photoshoot.

I walked a bit and ended up blocked before the last third of the way because the entrance (from the parking) looked like a small lake… The clients later told me that access to the other entries was blocked too, so we couldn’t have parked elsewhere anyway, even if we had wanted to. It seems that all the rain that fell in Montpellier during our December holiday in the Alps and Nice (causing floods all over the region) had still not been absorbed by the soil. I didn’t expect to see that so many days later, so I took this picture to remember it.

Luckily for the pregnancy photos I was meant to take, the other two thirds of alley 75 were dry, quiet and offered nice views. As nobody was using this alley to reach the beach or return to the parking, we weren’t interrupted and were able to enjoy this part of the place as a totally private space.

Of course, I had and still I have a thought for all the people that may have lived a bad experience because of the December floods.

#montpellier #plagedupetitravers #inondations #wintervibes #photographemontpellier

[Picture taken with my OM System OM-1 + 45 mm f/1.2 -aka my professional favourite combo!]

As I said in my previous posts, being ill during o

As I said in my previous posts, being ill during our stay in Nice forced us to reconsider what to do (I was the one not feeling great during the first days, and then it was Romain's turn). As a consequence, we didn't make it until Grasse as we had planned, but as we really wanted to discover a new city around Nice, we chose to go by train to Antibes. It was the perfect distance and size for our low energy level, and we enjoyed it. It's this kind of dreamy location combining moutains views and sea, harbour and old streets, art...

Little story: on the fist picture, you can see a sculpture by spanish artist Jaume Plensa, who designed another piece of art we were seing a lot when living in Boston because it was located just in front of a MIT building (I may happen to have posted it on this feed a few years ago, can't remember).

[Pictures taken with my very first mirrorless camera, a 10 year-old small Lumix Gm5 coupled to my - also old- Olympus 45 mm f/1.8 & Lumix 14 mm f/2.5. Analog pics soon to come on @citronargentique]

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