October 4, 2009

Au parc Rotschild

Parc Rotschild IParc Rotschild II

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September 23, 2009

Water play

The 64 water jets in André Citroën park are a lot of fun for children during the last days of summer.

Water play IWater play II

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August 8, 2009

Passage Jouffroy

Hotel ChopinLe bonheur des dames

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July 31, 2009

Parc floral de Paris

Pond in Parc floral de ParisEquisetum camtschatcense

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July 24, 2009

Urban vegetation

Urban vegetation

Double bee IDouble bee II

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July 4, 2009

Sea and Sun

A short jump in Normandy

Les parasolsSunset at the sea

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May 29, 2009

Flower & bee from Paris

One would expect some Eiffel Tower or Louvre pictures from Paris; the truth is I didn’t have the time yet to go on a “photo tour” in Paris except for a couple of visits in the park.

The dandelionThe flower and the bee

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May 9, 2009

Good bye New York

I am now back to Paris after more than four years in NYC. These two last NY pictures were taken from the 52nd floor rooftop in Upper West Side just the day before we left NY.

Central Park & Upper Manhattan ICentral Park & Upper Manhattan II

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March 18, 2009

St. Patrick’s Day Parade (2009)

Two pictures from this year’s offstage preps…

St. Patrick's DaySt. Patrick's Day - the horse rider

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March 11, 2009

The fisheye

This weekend I got a 16 mm fisheye lens. This leans is really wide; I have to pay attention so that my feet do not appear in the picture.

While the fisheye is not particularly suited for architecture, I use Hugin (open source GUI on top of panorama tools) to “defish” the images. The rectilinear projection (a standard lens is rectilinear) yields and horizontal angle of view of 129° (this is way too much for a rectilinear projection, usually limited to 120°) and a vertical angle of view of 86°. This is the equivalent of a rectilinear lens with a focal length of 8.5 mm horizontally and 13 mm vertically. Of course the 3/2 image ratio is not respected anymore, the corners are somehow soft due to extreme stretching and the objects on the sides have a crazy perspective, but these angles of view are so extreme that it opens a lot of possibilities.

Trinity ChurchRecession or George's foot kicks NYSE

I have to explore more on different projections and find a projection somewhere between the fisheye (too curvy) and rectilinear (too much perspective distortion).

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