Series

A Sea of clouds

Sea of clouds are awesome, really. How could you imagine that, when you’re at the bottom of a valley, depressing in the fog and the cold, there is above such sight and nice weather?

There is proverb, often heard in the world of aircraft: “above the clouds, the sky is always blue”; it is, indeed, but to find the blue sky, you must not staying at the bottom of your valley, but to climb above the clouds, even if it’s difficult.

There is a lot of ways to play with clouds in the mountains, so expect to see various scenes and composition.

  • “Là-haut”, Hohneck, Alsace, 2010.
  • “Là-haut II”, Grand-Ballon, Alsace, 2010.
  • “Chutes éthérées”, Falimont & Martinswand, Alsace, 2010.
  • “Through the clouds”, Grand-Ballon, Alsace, 2014.
  • “Vision”, Petit-Ballon, Alsace, 2014.

Bookmark

Bookmark is a series formed of various subject, which have in common a bookmark format. The pictures in Bookmark are never cropped version of other pictures you could find here in another series, but always different photographies, even if it happens that some look similar.

  • H145 Search and Rescue helicopter
    “SAR”, H145 Helicopter, 2015.

Couverture

Covering is a photographic project, which has begun in 2011 and is still on course. Being a pair with the Ouverture project, it shows similar characteristics, especially geometry and balanced composition, often -but not always- through a square format.

  • “Élan”, Saint-Thomas church, Strasbourg, Alsace, 2012.
  • “Octogone”, Saint-Thomas church, Strasbourg, Alsace, 2012.
  • “Voûte”, Cathedral of Strasbourg, vault of St Catherine’s chapel, 2013.
  • “Toit vu de dessus”, Cathedral of Strasbourg, roof of the “Klotz’s vestibule”, 2011.
  • A ceiling light and painted wooden ceiling
    “The Iron Crown”, Haut-Koenigsbourg castle, 2019.

I believe I can fly

  • “Grive”, Song Thrush (Turdus philomenos), 2011.
  • “Pinson des arbres”, Common Chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs), 2010.
  • “Jack the Sparrow”, House Sparrow (passer domesticus), 2010.

In a moment of peace

  • “Light and shadow” Cathedral of Strasbourg, 2012.
  • “Cathédrale de Strasbourg”, Cathedral of Strasbourg, 2011.
  • “Mont Sainte-Odile”, Mont Sainte-Odile Abbey, chapel of the Tears, 2011.
  • “Notre-Dame de Cluny” Church of Our Lady, Cluny, 2011.
  • “Maulbronn”, Maulbronn monastery, 2011.

Microcosmos

  • “Tentacle”, Bryophyta (Moss), 2010.
  • “A Touch of purple”, (undetermined specie), 2010.
  • “Le Butineur”, Sweet William (dianthus barbatus) and cabbage butterfly (pieris brassicae), 2010.

On the Road

  • “Bridge”, Solberg, Alsace, 2011.

Ouverture

Ouverture is a photographic project, which has begun in 2011 and is still on course. Being a pair with the Couverture project it shows similar characteristics, especially geometry and balanced composition, often -but not always- through a square format.

  • “Rosa II”, Church of Saverne (Alsace), 2012.
  • “Jour” Church of Singrist, Alsace, 2013.

Rosa

Rosa is a small series from 2011, showing the great Western rose window of the cathedral of Strasbourg from the inside. The series aims to focus on the lines produced by the spokes of the rose.

I’ve currently no plan to extend further this series.

  • “Rosa”, Cathedral of Strasbourg, 2011.
  • “Rosae”, Cathedral of Strasbourg, 2011.
  • “Rosam”, Cathedral of Strasbourg, 2011.

Son of the Sun

  • “Rising Sun”, Hohneck, Alsace, 2010.
  • “Rising Sun II”, Hohneck, Alsace, 2010.
  • “Lever de soleil au Rothenbachkopf”, Rothenbachkopf mountain, Alsace, 2007.
  • “Dusk”, Central Vosges, Alsace, 2012.
  • “Spes”, Munster, Alsace, 2010.
  • “Spes II”, Munster, Alsace, 2010.
  • “Sun and trees”, Alsace, 2010.

Stand alone

There isn’t a project behind every picture. Some of them are stand-alone, being not part of a wider theme.

That doesn’t mean though there isn’t any thinking in it and if you’d compare them thoroughly, you’ll without any doubt find some relationship in composition, colours and style.

  • “What a view”, Valley of Munster, Alsace, 2012.
  • “Basement”, Palais universitaire, Strasbourg, Alsace, 2010.
  • “Stronghold”, Hohkönigsburg, 2014.
  • “Burg”, Haut-Koenigsbourg castle, Alsace, 2014.
  • “Haunted palace”, Palais Universitaire, Strasbourg, 2010.
  • “De Neige et de glace”, Fischboedle, Alsace, 2015.
  • Two yellow planes crossing and visually forming an X
    “Crossing”, 2015.
  • “Nebelung”, 2011.
  • “Organ”, Organ, cathedral of Strasbourg, 2013.
  • A fortified bridge with decorative blue lights under the arches
    “Barrage”, Barrage Vauban, Strasbourg, Alsace, 2014.
  • “Ponts couverts”, Ponts Couverts, Strasbourg, 2014.
  • A red squirrel foraging nuts in a tree
    “Nuts!”, Eurasian red squirrel (Scurius vulgaris), 2015.
  • A line of iced stakes attop a snowy mountain
    “Line”, Hohneck, Alsace, 2009.
  • An architectural glass dome seen from under
    “Dôme”, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, København, 2009.
  • “Station”, Petit Ballon, Alsace, 2014.
  • Lunar eclipse above Alsace
    “To Rise, Endless”, Alsace, 2018.
  • Close up on the flame of a candle in the dark
    “Light”, 2011.
  • Lunar eclipse above Alsace
    “Bloodmoon”, Alsace, 2018.
  • A slowworm on the ground
    “Orvet”, Slow worm (anguis fragilis), 2008.
  • A lake with the sun reflecting through the mist
    “Mystère”, Munster, Alsace, 2007.
  • Close-up on a sculpting tool hitting stone
    “Impact”, 2011.
  • Rim of a Porsche’s car
    “Porsche”, 2013.
  • “Ex-voto”, Church of Fénétrange, Lorraine, France, 2013.

The Stone little folk

  • “Sic transit gloria mundi”, Tomb of Maurice of Saxe, St-Thomas church, Strasbourg, 2012.
  • Close-up on the head of a sheperd of a sculpture of the Nativity of Jesus.
    “Adoration”, stamp of a XVth century sculpture, 2011.
  • “Gardien”, Pulpit, cathedral of Strasbourg, 2011.
  • “Meditation”, Pulpit, cathedral of Strasbourg, 2012.