Category: France
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O Holy Night
O Holy Night Nativity scene in Chartres cathedral. Photo of the week: Christmas at Cathédrale Notre-Dame, Chartres, France 2024
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Bleu de Chartres
Bleu de Chartres When you enter Chartres Cathedral, the blue light in the stained-glass windows immediately catches your eye: the famous blue of Chartres. There are many different colours in the stained glass, red, yellow, green, white … but it is the intensity of the blue that dominates the image. The photo shows a detail…
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Curiosity
Curiosity Feeling small under their inquisitive looks. Photo of the week: Petit Veyriat, Foissiat, France 2025
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What’s in a name?
What’s in a name? The Rue Ecce Homo is closed to traffic. The Rue du Repos, on the other hand, is a dead end. Maybe it leads to the ‘repos éternel’ of the cemetery? Photos of the week: Rue Ecce Homo and Rue du Repos, Cuiseaux, France 2025
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Half-timbered
Half-timbered The beauty of asymmetry in the patterns of old half-timbered houses. Photo of the week: Half-timbered house (detail), Chamandre, Ain, France 2025
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La beauté a sa méthode
La beauté a sa méthode Each one in its own way: one of the oldest houses in Bourg-en-Bresse in the traditional style with stone, earth and wood construction elements, and the method of Jeanne Piaubert with its ‘unique treatment for divine skin and hair’. Photo of the week: La Demeure Hugon, Bourg-en-Bresse, France 2025
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A necklace for the Earth
A necklace for the Earth A distant field of flowering plants from the Brassica family lays as a thin gold necklace on the earth. Beautiful as ever. Photo of the week: Lescheroux, Ain, France 2025
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Framework
Framework I am not a fan of Utrillo’s work but I can appreciate his painting of the house in which Berlioz lived for several years and later Braque had his studio, which now no longer exists. Probably because it is one of the most austere paintings he did. Then again, I cannot appreciate the lavish…
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Just a landscape?
Just a landscape? Over the past few years, I have been taking more pictures of landscapes that evoke a certain emotion in me as a hiker. I then try to depict the landscape in such a way that I can use the photo to reawaken the emotion felt.Here we are looking at an agricultural landscape…
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Think again
Think again Second thoughts of a wall in Cluny: I don’t want windows here, I want them there. Or wait a minute, they will still be better over there. Photo of the week: Wall in Cluny, France 2025
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