Lyon colors: pink shades

Colors are definitely a strong feature in Lyon! I can not resist gathering again several pictures on a color theme...

I fell in love with the pink-striped walls below - pink is not my favorite color at all, yet I think the contrast with the green tropical plants or this gray parapet wall was just too eye-catching to be ignored :-D

Exotic wall

Pink waves

Bridges over the Saône & Rhône

A few metal bridges crossing the rivers Saône and Rhône...

I love their thin outline, sometimes wrapped up with stone parts :-)

College footbridge

Buildings reflection

Banks of the Rhone

Street lamps

A focus on some street lamps - in Lyon again as you might have guessed :-)

Pink and white

Traboule archs

Changed their mind

Lyon colors: orange and pink

I've taken so many pictures of Lyon last year (maybe a little too much ^^) and don't know where to begin! So many things have caught my eyes there, from the beautifully colored walls to the magnificent old bridges that cross the Saône and the Rhône...

Let's start with some color samples: vibrant orange and pink were my favorite :-)

Pink to orange

Purple traboule

A touch of color

Photo mash-up #22

And today theme will be: STRIPES...

These striped walls in Rouen really caught my attention :-)

Happy 'stripes' day :-)

Frankfurt am Main

I made a little trip to Frankfurt in May and was really enthusiastic at the sight: many a nice building and beautiful places all around the city :-)

As you can see, I also used my phone as a camera - not so bad as I expected but still not my favorite type of photography!

Magnificent building

Skyline behind old opera

Lake park

Forest trip

Another trip through a nearby forest with friends of mine - the weather was really hot, happily enough I could use my camera as an excuse to stop and catch my breath ;-)

Soft wings

Battle within the leaf

Little wild strawberry

Long time no sea

It has been a long time already since my last article, I must confess that I've been a little too busy in the meantime and totally put my blog aside for a while... But I really missed composing and pairing similarly-themed photos so here I am, back to my usual hobby :-)

Among the maaaaany thing I've explored recently, I visited a small city in Normandie, Granville - and the 3h-trip by train was definitely worth it!

I couldn't bring my camera with me at that time as I feared the sea spray and the sand would cause a little too much damage to my Sony camera, so I used my newly bought Iphone (I know I know, yielding to fashion...) and the results were not so bad as I thought: one can make pretty correct pictures with a phone, now (I always doubted it^^).

A few examples of the beautiful sea - Normandie is not always rainy :-)

View on St Michel

Wave of turquoise water

Some water away

Photo mash-up #21

Today theme will be: BUSTED & GREEN :-)

Happy 'busted despite the green' day :-)

Pastel vibes

Some delicate colors in pastel shades :-)

Strange nope

Caterpillar on the road

Water dance

Bokeh droplets

And another pool of bokeh pictures... I really love my 50 mm 1.8 :-)

Bokeh dance

Flowers and droplets

Droplet ocean

Slimy, yet...

Snails are... 

Let's say, slimy yet satisfying when you're looking for a quick photo subject :-D

Way down

Snail portrait

Blurry snail

Intimidating style

Look a this teeny tiny spider, so cute and not frightening...

But disturb it one moment, and it will show its belligerent behavior and begin the war dance :-(

Intimidation

Handicraft

Spring firebugs

With their bright red back, fireflies undoubtedly are easy to spot and are among my favorite photography insects - after ladybugs of course :-)

The macro lens is really amazing for enhancing their tiny details: delicate antennae, eyes and legs.

Color bath


Face to face


Hesitant step

Spiders

Here again, don't scroll further if you're afraid of spiders!

As I belong to this kind of people, it was a really difficult task for me to take macro pictures of those spiders. They would regularly make a sudden movement that would cause me to jump 10 feet backwards screaming and/or with shaking hands & legs, since macro lenses make everything look closer and bigger than how they really are :-(

Danger ahead

Nightmare on a thread

Sun king

Unsuccessful hiding

It seems like the little insects below tried to hide, but were not so talented in doing so: an antenna is still showing, or the color camouflage went totally wrong ;-)

Long legged

Well hidden

Dangerous trap

Photo mash-up #20

Today theme will be: PURPLE GREEN!

That's quite an unusual color combination in Nature, thus really nice to see and capture :-)

Happy 'purple green' day :-)