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A l’Est de Paris

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Habitué à trainer mes guêtres davantage coté Ouest de Paris avec tous ces méandres de la Seine et de l’Oise… Continuer la lecture

Moving the blog

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After 6 years spent with the same theme I ended up reading from Elegant Themes that they would no longer… Continuer la lecture

Un tour à l’Ouest de Paris

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Par admin 25 août 2020 Non

Spot convoité de longue date, j’ai fini par trouver un accès qui ne se trouvait bien sûr pas là où… Continuer la lecture

1rst Lightpainting in North Korea

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Par admin 26 août 2018 Non

This is probably to this date the only succesful attempt to do some basic Lightpainting in North Korea as well… Continuer la lecture

Exploration quand tu nous tiens…

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Par admin 24 février 2018 Non

C’est souvent une question de personnes dans la vie, quelque soit l’activité à laquelle on s’attaque. Ayant rencontré un expert… Continuer la lecture

Exclusion Zone of Tchernobyl

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Par admin 31 octobre 2017 Non

This was a long planned trip into the scary world of a nuclear disaster. Tchernobyl is a bad remembrance for… Continuer la lecture

Street Art dans le 14e

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Par admin 11 juillet 2017 Non

Une amie m’ayant donné le tuyau nous sommes allé voir cette maison des Arts et Métiers qui est en faite… Continuer la lecture

Lodz – first trip to Poland

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Par admin 11 juillet 2017 Non

Trip to Lodz This 48h business trip to Poland gave me the occasion to set foot for the first time… Continuer la lecture

Light & Firepainting dans l’Oise

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Par admin 19 septembre 2016 Non

On avait entendu parler de cette mine il y a quelque temps et elle est un peu documentée sur les… Continuer la lecture

The abandoned sugar factory

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Par admin 19 septembre 2016 Non

While we were on the way to explore the chalk stone quarry of St Leu, we stumbled over this run… Continuer la lecture

As far as I can remember, I’ve been always interested in photography. I got my first camera at 14 and yet I had already been playing around with photographic expericences before that which triggered my curiosity.Actually, it all started when…at the age of 13, I had to build a cardboard chamber at school. Luck had it that I stumbled over a box of old photographic paper right afterwards. It was indeed still good enough to experiment around with it in that chamber and I managed to produce some negative pictures – actually quite primitive – but terribly impressive for a self made ‘camera’ and its amateur photographer. Soon I was dipping the paper into chemicals to fix the results and I ended up wanting way more than this. Enough of playing Monsieur Daguerre, I wanted to make real pictures. I got then offered an old camera from my grandfather that dated back to the 60’s. Fine for a start but I quickly reached the limits of this touristic device claiming for more. I had to wait until I was 16 or 17 to afford a used Reflex camera – my first one for the unbelievable sum of 150 DM (I still have it and the shop where I bought it still exists too). That Praktica was robust and derived from a Minolta design, a brand of which I’m still a strong supporter today. Armed with a 50mm f2.5 and an embedded light meter in the camera, I was finally fully entering the word of photography.

Later on I went into film development and used sporadically my fathers X300 Minolta equipment. Life has its up & downs and most of the produced material got lost over the years. When I got the first digital camera in 2000, it was a big change. Pictures were really poor but the possibility to see the immediate result was a revolution. 2001 was the year of digital photography coming to the masses and I got a Minolta E203 that lasted a year before it got stolen. Indeed, it was clear that with 2Mpix, pictures were approaching acceptable levels and in 2005 I got my first digital DSLR : a Minolta 5D. From there it went crescendo over to the 7D, then the current Alpha 700 and around 20 lenses.

Today – as in the past – I’m still shooting pictures where ever I go and am. I’m still using film cameras (film is really a world apart) and my main focus is to catch things before they disappear. Time & trends tend to gnaw at things from the past and our duty as intelligent beings living in an educated society is not to forget our past. Hence many of my pictures might not be perfect regarding the art but it was then not the point. Some are, when it comes to do Portrait or other exercices, some are not. I like to freeze on film or digital media that world we live in and when it comes to that, only the information counts. As of this some pics get shaky or even boring but will reveal all their value in some years.

Enjoy the site, leave feedback if you like a picture and keep in mind that I’m always open to critics & comments.

Deanza7 – Oct 2013

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