メリークリスマス！
What a Christmas! For once, we had snow. Not exactly in Paris for Christmas day, but the rest of France got it all for us. We had it a couple of days ago. Then, the gifts and the family celebrations. It’s been my son’s first Christmas, needless to say he got all the presents.
Because of him, we got to held up the first of a long series of Christmas eves, right here, at home.

 

Going backwards. No long-haul trip this month, but shortest ones. To Annecy, southern France. There was snow, quite a lot indeed. Even earlier this month, I also went to Frankfurt: snow again. And before, Liverpool (no snow but cold crisp weather), and Lyon, where I had this amazing chicken crust-pie-thing. Delicious.

 

Photography? Yes indeed. For 2010 I had made quite a number of resolutions, most of which could not be achieved, sadly. Anyway, here comes 2011, new resolutions (more on that in the following posts), exhibits plans, etc. I have visited a nice gallery in Paris which opened just recently and might hold a collective exhibit of pictures from me and a couple of photographers friends; ETA: March. Another show was unfortunately cancelled at the last minute, for which I had selected some b+w portraits I had done some time ago. For both of these, I have been toying with large prints to be either hung or stuck on walls, the idea being to try to cover as much surface as possible.
I also got to release a series of pictures taken back in 2008, while I was driving through California desert. I named the series after the highway I took to drive from LA to SF, going through several national forests, along lakes and mountains, witnessing amazing landscapes before my eyes. The series has been uploaded on my BeHance account.

I have now a week of holidays to spend at home, and there is still a lot to do: several opportunities caught my eye, for which I will apply, some preparation has to be done for the upcoming exhibit, and I have got some pictures to upload; I recently dug into past series from Heraklio, LA, Montreal… Hopefully I’ll have time to write some more as well.