Street bikes

I love photographing bikes, so here are a few pictures in front of colorful walls!

Blue bike

Black bicycle

Dripping colors

I had almost forgotten how beautiful the colors of Autumn are. Forget Spring and its vibrant green colors, I really prefer the gold, orange and red tones that have been brought to most of the trees around my place!

And as I had the opportunity to lay my hands on the wonderful 90 mm macro that my friend owns, I could not help but try to use all these colors like a painter would blend watercolors...

Colorful leaves

Dripping colors

Autumn colors

Faithful friend

I felt really touched seeing this little dog displaying so much affection towards an old lady. Couldn't help but try to capture this moment :-)

(bonus photo: another friendly dog)

Faithful friend

Enjoying life

Woods bokeh

A stroll in the Bois de Boulogne for a change (hum), with some bokeh experiments...
Yes, it's the very same tree branch under different lights!

Leaf and light

Gone full bokeh

Pyrénées

On a trip to the city of Foix, I discovered there was a wonderful view on the Pyrénées from there... Alas with my 50mm, the grey sky and the inconvenient hour, I couldn't get more beautiful photos than those ones. I'll have to come back one day at sunset or sunrise :-)

View on the Pyrenees

Dark clouds over the mountain

A little path to the mountain

Pyrenees beyond the river

Minimalism

Some really simple pictures! I find their atmosphere is so peaceful :-)

Have a sip

Tweet tweet

B&W bumble bee

Yellow walls

At Toulouse again to see my friend, I had the opportunity on my arrival to visit the city center by myself and take as many pictures in as much time as I wanted to ;-)

I really love this city, with its amazingly colorful walls. No need to explore the streets too far, you will find color at every corner!

Yellow wall

Colorful wall

White or colored

A field of colors

Some beautiful flowers in a field, like a hundred spots of bright colors...

Enter the colors

Ocean of color spots

Macro my love

Though I still find very difficult to get a perfect focus with a macro lens, I always love playing with it. I'm taking advantage of the last summer days to play with the flowers and insects...

High concentration

Wrong hiding colors

Am I spotted

Photo mash-up #12

For this new photo mash-up, let's settle on a color subject: PURPLE!

Happy purple day :-)

Insect dance

Busy insects attracted by deliciously colorful flowers: what a nice photography subject :-)

Pink zone

Bumblee bee

Clinging to flower

Photo mash-up #11

Such a long time without photo mash-ups! I had to make a new one :-)

Even if the subject is a bit vague, here we go... POSING ANIMALS!

Happy 'posing animals' day :-)

Wooly clouds

I just had enough time to take a few pictures of a really surrealistic sky above my head, it lasted but a few minutes. I'm not satisfied with the pictures but as a memory of this amazing clouds, I wanted to share these ones...

Architecture in the clouds

A blue dream

Cats everywhere

After having considered it for quite a long time already, I finally took the decision to visit the Parisian version of Neko Café - yes, a cats café!

Actually there are two cafés of the sort in Paris, one of a quite old-fashioned style - in an old building with arched cellar, stone walls, etc. - and another one, in a slightly more recent and modern looking building. Of course I wanted to try the quaintest of the two... Much more appealing, in my opinion :-)

I actually managed to enter without having made a reservation (it usually gets crowded very easily) and find myself a little place to sit next to some of the most beautiful guests of the place.

Never had I been so uninterested in my food or drink...

Tiny paw

The blue hour

Sleeping kitty

Reflection

Poetry corner

Having a stroll in the streets, I came upon a certainly unusual wall... Arthur Rimbaud's famous poem, Le Bateau Ivre, was painted - quite the whole of it, I think - on this very plain stone wall.

Isn't it surprisingly nice?

Writing on the wall

Open-air poetry

Ergo sum

Squirrels everywhere

Very friendly and not wild at all, one of London parks most renowned guests, I give you: the squirrel!

They were horribly difficult to photograph though, moving all the time to opposite directions...
But aren't they cuties?

Dirty nose


Agility king


Playful squirrel

The Tube

London metro stations logo is just too clever: easy to spot, easy to remember, easy to re-use.

I've seen numerous stores having adapted the underground sign into a personalized one, that they had proudly put forward onto the shop front. Good way to trick everyone into coming to their store!

Regarding the London underground itself - the 'Tube' as they call it - the first thing that came to my mind was 'Wow, so clean!'. Well it's definitely very expensive also, maybe that explains a bit of its difference with the Paris metro? Or maybe not. Anyway, very crowded at business hours like everywhere, so not that a pleasant experience to be honest.

Let's rather keep in mind its nice logo and the numerous pictures I've taken of it!

Metro station

Underground sign

In the Tube