A reflection in Modern Architecture

The Contemporary Art Museum in Nîmes faces across an open square towards the only fully preserved Roman temple in the world. Unfortuneately, half of it was under scaffolding when I visited Nîmes last week, so I had to carefully position the reflection to mask those...

That time of day … Rosé time!

I was laying out the courtyard in a recent property shoot.  It was a warm day in August, the small pool and fountain burbling away, a nice cool bottle of Rosé on hand to add to the ambience … oohhh let’s just sit down and relax a little! Also, my first...

Caune Minervois

A small village nestled into the foot hills of the Black Mountains, just a short distance from the famous cite of Carcassonne, Caune Minervois was THE home of marble in France.  The first recorded settlement here was in 780AD, although other settlements probably...

Narbonne Street Corner

The town of Narbonne lies in the heart of the Languedoc area in south-western France.  The town has been here for eons, back in Roman times circa 118BC, Caesar moved his garrison here to get away from revolts in Marseille.  The town grew and sat on the cross-roads of...

Cassis Harbour

A photo of the harbour at Cassis, a small sea-side town near Marseille.  Cassis is well known as it is the gateway to the Calanques, a strip of rugged limestone coast with long narrow inlets almost like small fjords carved out of the rock.  The sea in this area is an...