Technology opinions and digital photography
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My best photographs
Here, on my blog, I run a continuous stream of many of my newest photographs, as soon as they are available. But if I also try to group all the pictures I am most proud of. Let’s meet on: Wild Focus This is the web site of my portfolios. There, you will see the subjects…
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Kingfishers from Indonesia
In English, kingfishers are surprisingly covering birds that are actually fishing fish prey, and (very similar in appearance) birds that are hunting on insects and ground prey (French has two different names for them: martins-pêcheurs and martins-chasseurs). Unsurprisingly they leave in different biotopes (river sides and forests). One of the most attractive aspects of these…
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Rainbow bee-eaters
Marvellous little birds, with bright flashy colors. Indonesia.
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Impalas
South African antelopes ready to drink at a water hole. South Africa.
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Black buffalos in the night
I had recently the opportunity to shoot pictures from the Zimanga Reserve overnight hides. There I could meet (face to face, really!) some of the largest herbivores of the African savannah: Water buffalos. I collected some of these in a portfolio at Wild Focus: Buffles noirs dans la nuit.
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Ocelot
I am a proud fan of big cats. But I admit that I can be attracted to smaller cats like the ocelot, a tough little cat from South America. You will find it deep in the forests, while hunting at night (an issue for the photographer, indeed). A few pictures from an older trip in…
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Structured vibe coding
I wanted to understand how “vibe coding” (the act of writing software mostly through prompting an LLM AI assistant). But I also wanted to take a step back and ask it to support a more structured approach like in organized/serious software development (not only running into “please, write me a Mario Bros clone“). So, I…
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Alphabets and writing systems
Who would not want to see all world’s writing systems organized in a structured way? This is what was done by WorldWritingSystems.org (referenced by Jason Kottke, including the partial list below). And, on a more humorous tone (from xkcd): But do not forget the history of… counting languages. It is not as simple as you…
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Jaguars from Pantanal
For big cat lovers, jaguars are unavoidable. I visited Pantanal (in Southern Brazil) several times, which gave me the opportunity to shoot a few photos of this impressive hunter. A few jaguar photos I added to YLoveBigCats. Just as a reminder, Pantanal jaguars are the biggest in the world because they are so well-fed from…
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Wild dogs
Is it a wild dog? Is it a painted dog? French-speaking people describe it as “a kind of wolf” (lycaon, from ancient Greek λυκάων (lukáōn)). But it should be mostly described as a social dog. They live in large groups, with a strong social hierarchy, but they always share food like nearly no other large…
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