Electricity pylon, la Nièvre
Fujifilm X-T10, Fujinon XF 90mm f2 R LM WR, 1/2500s, f8, ISO 1600
Category: France
Throwback Thursday… Quai du Maréchal Joffre, Cosne-sur-Loire, January 2017
Quai du Maréchal Joffre, Cosne-sur-Loire, January 2017
Fujifilm X-T1, Fujinon XF 18-135mm f3.5~5.6 R LM OIS WR at 29mm – 1/9s, f4.3, ISO 3200
What was I photographing on this day in previous years?
Five years ago it was the daylight fading and reflecting the last of its colour in the River Loire.
The anchor is part of a display commemorating the former ship-building industry in the area around Cosne-sur-Loire in the Nièvre department of central France.
Slide Film Sunday… More from Paris
Au Lapin Agile Cabaret, Septembre 2000
Another couple of honeymoon images for today’s ‘Slide Film Sunday’
Au Lapin Agile (the agile rabbit) is a legendary cabaret venue in Montmartre, Paris, just around the corner from…
La Maison Rose, Septembre 2000
La Maison Rose (the pink house) is a wonderful little restaurant, originally owned by the Catalan painter Ramon Pichot (1871-1925) and his wife Germaine Gargallo (1880-1948) who was an artist’s model and lover of Picasso for many years.
Digitised using Nikon D5600 & AF-S Micro-NIKKOR 40mm f/2.8 and Nikon ES-2 Film Digitising Adapter with minimal cropping and tweaking in Lightroom Classic CC.
Slide Film Sunday… Bouquinistes de Paris
Bouquinistes de Paris
Another honeymoon image for today’s ‘Slide Film Sunday’
The Bouquinistes of Paris are booksellers of used and antiquarian books who ply their trade along large sections of the banks of the River Seine… ‘the only river in the world that runs between two bookshelves’.
Digitised using Nikon D5600 & AF-S Micro-NIKKOR 40mm f/2.8 and Nikon ES-2 Film Digitising Adapter with minimal cropping and tweaking in Lightroom Classic CC.
Slide Film Sunday… Rue des Ursins
Rue des Ursins, Septembre 2000
Another honeymoon image for today’s ‘Slide Film Sunday’
Digitised using Nikon D5500 & AF-S Micro-NIKKOR 40mm f/2.8 and Nikon ES-2 Film Digitising Adapter with minimal cropping and tweaking in Lightroom Classic CC.
Slide Film Sunday… Pont de l’Archevêché, Octobre 2000
Pont de l’Archevêché, Octobre 2000
An image from September 2000 for today’s ‘Slide Film Sunday’
My first visit to Paris (on honeymoon no less) was when I started to make a conscious effort to include people in my images, the couple chatting on the river bank really making this image for me…
Digitised using Nikon D5500 & AF-S Micro-NIKKOR 40mm f/2.8 and Nikon ES-2 Film Digitising Adapter with minimal cropping and tweaking in Lightroom Classic CC.
Throwback Thursday… Villegeneray, France
Propping up the roof
Fujifilm X-T10, Fujinon XF 18-55mm f/2.8-4 R LM OIS at 24mm, 1/200s, f8, ISO 200
What was I photographing on this day in previous years?
Five years ago it was the commune of Villegeneray in the Nièvre department in central France…
A delightfully rustic place, the ramshackle woodwork above supported the roof of a building home to a tractor and the Hollyhock was growing through the framework of a water well!
Hollyhock
Fujifilm X-T10, Fujinon XF 18-55mm f/2.8-4 R LM OIS at 50mm, 1/80s, f8, ISO 640
Throwback Thursday… Mur-de-Barrez
Rue de la Pierre, Mur-de-Barrez
Nikon D200, AF NIKKOR 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G ED-IF AF-S DX at 70mm, 1/125s, f8, ISO 400
What was I photographing on this day in previous years?
14 years ago it was the French commune of Mur-de-Barrez in the Aveyron department in southern France.
With a population of only 800 or so it was an incredibly peaceful little place to spend an afternoon, in fact we hardly saw a soul…
Rue de la Parro, Mur-de-Barrez
Nikon D200, AF NIKKOR 70-300mm f/4-5.6 D ED at 130mm, 1/500s, f8, ISO 400
Throwback Thursday… Doorways in Donzy
31 Rue Notre Dame, Donzy
Fujifilm X-T10, Fujinon XF 18-55m f/2.8-4 R LM OIS at 31mm, 1/100s, f8, ISO 250
What was I photographing on this day in previous years?
Five years ago it was the commune of Donzy in the Nièvre department in central France… well, mostly the doorways of Donzy! 😁
2 Rue Frappier Saint-Martin, Donzy
Fujifilm X-T10, Fujinon XF 18-55m f/2.8-4 R LM OIS at 31mm, 1/100s, f8, ISO 320
Yes, it does say ‘Support Your Local Hells Angels’ on the second door…
Single frame… A Happy New Year to you all… (hopefully…)
Frosty tree, the Nièvre, New Year’s Day 2017
Fujifilm X-T1, Fujinon XF 18-135mm f3.5~5.6 R LM OIS WR at 78mm, 1/70s, f8, ISO 400
Here’s hoping that 2021 is kinder to us all than 2020 has been…
A pic from the digital archives today, shot on New Years’s Day 2017 in the Nièvre in central France.
I really must learn to identify trees, I know a silver birch when I see one but that’s about it!
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