Waiting for Sunset

Waiting for Sunset

Sunset shoots need … a sunset! It’s said that a watched kettle never boils.  But now I’m wondering whether a watched sunset takes forever to appear? Up in the hills behind Béziers last week, I was on a Photography shoot which included a Twilight Pool...
Love at first sight

Love at first sight

Yesterday saw a trip to the all new Perpignan TGV station from where my daughter would be travelling to Barcelona. I admit to a feeling of love at first sight when I caught a glimpse of the station’s amazing new look. Feat of Engineering Over the last few years,...
Getting away from it all

Getting away from it all

Simplest Pleasures Some of the simplest things in life seem to bring such enormous pleasure.  Yesterday, having dropped my mother off at the airport after her brief stay, I took a different route home.  Wandering back cross-country, through areas that I had barely...
Château de Cabazac

Château de Cabazac

Sunrise I went out on an early morning shoot the other day, hoping for a great sunrise and wonderful soft morning light.  Having caught the rising sun in a few shots, I moved on to another location. Then the clouds came over and everything went really grey. Dark,...

Pot calling the kettle black!

When we moved to the South of France and bought our rambling uncared for house, there were no ends of pots, pans, hooks, fire baskets and the such like left in the “summer” kitchen.  Yes, two kitchens, the summer kitchen half-open to the outside, was used...