Baby frog (Natural park of the Burdinale & Mehaigne valleys)

Not really used to it (at least me) but a friend and I did a beautiful 12km walk yesterday, I can feel the "pain" in my muscles now :-)

That was a nice opportunity to discover one charming and picturesque stroll in the natural park of the Mehaigne & Burdinale valleys, Belgium. Reaching a pond, we crossed the path of some dozens of tiny frogs and this one accepted to pose for the photo... Thank you to this amphibian star!

ISO 400 - 200mm - f/6.3 - 1/30s
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Little big fly...

Is it looking at me? It takes patience to get this one, especially without tripod which I couldn't use considering the angle I had and the spot where I shot this. Actually I took a bit more than 20 photographs to get THE one I was satisfied with. Stacked my 3 macro rings to get that close to the fly.

ISO 800 - 40mm lens + macro rings - f/4.0 - 1/20s

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Bye bye winter?

Last week, it was freaking cold outside and today... what a nice surprise with warm pleasant weather, plain blue sky and sun. Not one single freaking cloud! So what else could I do except going out and shoot?! Joy, I was so delighted :-)

ISO 200 - 115mm - f/5.6 - 1/125s

Simple things

Amazing simple things.

ISO 200 - 55mm - f/11 - 1/125s

Blurred evening vision

Walking with the dog - Public garden.

My ISO setting was at maximum so I couldn't get better light. There was no time for tripod nor time for composing shots, I knew that with that exposure time of about three seconds I would have a hard time getting a sharp shot :-)

With that in mind, I did some shots which I wanted black and white and purposely blurred, hoping that I would get some kind of creepy atmosphere...

ISO 1600 - 40mm - f/2.8 - 3.2s

Eat me... or not.

A bit of nature at the edge of the forest in Céret, France.

Sleeping lil' snail

(Cute. Shh, don't wake him up...)

After picking up the chestnuts

Harvesting is done, the chestnuts have all been picked up, it's time to go back home and cook them the way you like them. Roast chestnuts, yummy... "Chauds les marrons, chauds!"

While we were picking up chestnuts

Fall is there, friends and I were harvesting, picking up some chestnuts, itchy hands now... Meanwhile, Humphrey was kind of a well-behaved (what a miracle?) puppy. Autumn, a nice season for photography.

The endless march of the little snail

"Fuhhh fuhhh come on, I'm almost there...".

The cool thing with snails is that you've got (almost) all the time in the world to adjust your lens and camera settings. And how cool is that to carry your home... Nomadic lifestyle!

Smart, leopard camouflage!

Advanced technique of camouflage, the ladybug in leopard disguise!

Sweden, summer 2011.

Sweden is filled with pretty surprises :-)

Summer bloom in Sweden

Mölnlycke (Göteborg), Sweden. Summer 2011.