Category: France
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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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The escape
The escape For the 2024 edition of ‘Le Voyage à Nantes’ Cyril Pedrosa has liberated the four caryatids of the Wallace fountain in four progressive steps. First two caryatids have lowered their arms and can now do something else, like watering seedlings, while the other two manage to hold the dome up in the air.…
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The Wallace fountain
The Wallace fountain For the last 150 years numerous of these free drinking water fountains can be found all over Paris. They are called Wallace fountains, named after the British philanthropist who made the initial design and financed them. They were further developed and sculpted by Charles-Auguste Lebourg, an artist from Nantes, where this specimen…
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Back again
Back again This girl just comes back from her own ‘Voyage à Nantes’. She was placed here by Philippe Ramette for the 2018 edition of the artistic itinerary in Nantes and she loves to roam around the city every now and then, especially when a new itinerary has been laid out. Photos of the week:…
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Interior jungle
Interior jungle Every year the city of Nantes organises an artistic itinerary (Le Voyage à Nantes) which leads you through the different neigbourhoods of the city and for which invited artists have made art works on location. Some of these art works are kept after the exhibition is over and become permanent land marks of…
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Romanesque abbey
Romanesque abbey For over a thousand years the simple brick columns and beautiful light inside the romanesque abbey church in Tournus has impressed the people. The abbey was rebuilt in the 11th century after the original one was destroyed by the Magyars in 937. Photos of the week: Abbaye Saint-Philibert de Tournus, France 2024
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