Category: Photo

  • 24 heures du Mans

    24 heures du Mans

  • Practice session – 24 heures du Mans 2010

    Practice session – 24 heures du Mans 2010

    Yesterday, I was in Le Mans (France) to assist to the official practice session of this most famous endurance car race: les 24 heures du Mans. This was an obvious reason to bring along a photo camera in order to click the shutter onto this colorful and very active show. It’s technically very demanding for…

  • Red-billed hornbill

    Red-billed hornbill

    Red-billed hornbill (Tockus erythrorhynchus), Calao à bec rouge Botswana, Moremi National Park. May 2010.

  • Burchell’s Glossy starling

    Burchell’s Glossy starling

    Burchell’s Glossy starling (Lamprotornis australis), Choucador de Burchell Botswana, Moremi, 2010.

  • Squirrel

    Squirrel

    Squirrel, écureuil Botswana 2010. Moremi

  • Elephants of Botswana

    Elephants of Botswana

    The elephants being very large mammals does not prohibit applying them wide-angle photography. And why not using a panoramic frame? Or even a vertical panorama? Click on the thumbnails to enlarge them Botswana 2010, Moremi

  • Elephants of Botswana

    Elephants of Botswana

    When elephants are too near to the photo camera, the only way to shoot a good picture is to concentrate on bits and pieces: Elephant ears, elephant eyes, elephant tusks. Botswana 2010, Moremi

  • Little bee-eaters

    Little bee-eaters

    Back from Botswana, I grouped a few pictures which seemed worth sharing with you here. I’ll start with some birds. Little bee-eater (Merops pusillus), Guêpier nain Botswana 2010, Moremi

  • Electron Microscopy and Music

    Vinyl records are a thing of the past, mostly. But it’s still very nice to see how they look when you zoom in with an Electron Microscope. Reckon has a gallery of images that show the finely engraved grooves of a vinyl record. It also shows this video of how a vinyl record was made.…