Working at a French château: cooking, horses and photography

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You're welcome of course.

Anyway two more then, after she galoped away...

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... I had this paradise view walking back to the lodge

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I showed my wife the pictures, and she said "beautiful girl!" Hope you can pry her out of bed on some magic morning with the reddish-golden light that you captured before.
 
Oh my niece is happy to get out of bed for the photoshoots. She asked me to make her a portefolio as she toys with the idea to do some modelling. So this morning, no magic light unfortunately, due to some hazy upper clouds, but it was mild for models.

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Afraid we are running of windows of opportunity, she is gone for a few days and when she returns, my time here is ending.
 
So after a long day of pix-shooting sessions, chores, gardening, cooking (beet salad, quiche, chocolat mousse), I thought I decided to sleep in today.

Yeah, right.

This was what I saw when peeking through the shutters of my bedroom window, a bit early:

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Okay, so, that's definitely not a sleep-in morning.

Such a dense fog in the valley sends patches up when the sun burns on it, this highly underestimated process is called convection. But this happens when such a patch of fog passes along:

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Meanwhile, the alert observer will notice that this proces also leaves millions of micro- diamonds on the vegation:

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Back in my room, shortly before processing the pix and making this post, I shot this:

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Every morning the view is different,
Remind me please, when I'm back home, to do some HDR-ing with this one, that I took this morning.

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Power of ten-ing: to the right on the horizon, Mont Vallier

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Never mind the reminding, I decided to try it right now:

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The colors have only been intensified but not changed.
 
:) wow! amazing pictures! I love hawkmoths! when I first saw them live I didn't know what to make of them! didnt know whether they were insects or birds cos they were so huge and flew so fast!
 
Sounds and looks like a wonderful trip! Fantastic photos to go with it.
 
Anyway, for some reason I went south again, maybe the pix I shot this week would hint why I like to be there a lot.

Same girl, same horse, Montcru in the background

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The view with 300mm tele

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Sunrise moments:

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Same Mount Vallier again but now at a November sunrise

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Thanks all, it's a pleasure to share them,

Chewy0087, it may look stunning but it's no magic. All you need is a good DSLR (Canon EOS 550D in this case) and a decent rapid focussing macro lens (EF 100mm F2.8 USM) and a good synchronized flash (Speedlite 430EX II), a lot of patience and a little luck.
 
And again au chateau.

I'd like to share some of my holiday pix taken yesterday. Relaxing on the roof

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and the view from there was gorgeous too, (since she took the pictures).
 
I guess heaven needs a bit of maintenance now and then.
 
They just have problems finding an engineer. And suing Hell... well, you know what I mean.
 
Sounds like a perfect holiday Andre. :biggrin:


Well as long as you're enjoying it :)