At certain times of the year, homo touristicus has a tendency, despite his good ecological resolutions, to fly off to seek the sun elsewhere. This astonishing biped sometimes seeks solitude, but more often finds itself in tightly packed flocks wading in the water of its favorite pond. Just like the phoenicopterus roseus, a partial migrant better known as the pink flamingo. Images taken at the Parc ornithologique du Pont de Gau, Camargue.
If the «filles de Camaret» have been immortalized in a song that's more bawdy than downright poetic, it's indeed a form of poetry - but rusty, faded, salty, abandoned - that haunts the boat graveyard at Camaret-Sur-Mer, at the end of the Crozon peninsula in Brittany's Finistère region.
Brick: a building material made of clay, in the shape of a rectangular parallelepiped, says the dictionary. Which forgets the function of blotting paper, as the walls become impregnated with lettering from another time, telling the story of the city before. Examples from across the Atlantic and antichronologically from Denver, Colorado, to Flagstaff, Arizona.
Snow in colors—or, more precisely, snow and colors—which stand out all the more when the «white blanket,» as the song goes, tries to cover them up. A stroll, not on Kilimanjaro, but through the city of Neuchâtel.
Symphonic music is a vast, tempestuous stream. What if we went back to its source, to the center of its gush, right next to the musicians and choristers? Immerse yourself in the heart of the Ensemble symphonique neuchâtelois (ESN) and the Cantabile Choir.
«A long time ago, we used to say »fairy electricity" to evoke a new and almost miraculous form of energy. Today, despite the threat of blackouts, we've become accustomed to its tidiness, sheathing and padlocking. But sometimes, at the bend in the road, we discover works of art of a sort, somewhere between carefree ramshackle and unexpectedly aesthetic. Stopovers in Tucson, Arizona, Guadeloupe and the Pyrénées-Orientales.
My first series of images for Le Regard Libre was devoted to the white marble quarries of Carrara. A year later, I set course for Caunes-Minervois, in the Aude department, to discover a more discreet deposit, which has nevertheless supplied incarnate marble to such famous landmarks as the Grand Trianon in Versailles, the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel in Paris and the Great Mosque in Cordoba...
From Icarus to Leonardo da Vinci to wingsuit enthusiasts, humans have always dreamed of flying like a bird. And birds, for their part, seem to love taking a break from human constructions. The Italian example, with sculptural ambiences in the heart of Rome, and a Hitchcockian atmosphere at a freeway service area.
PHOTO ESSAY, Bernard Léchot | Even though we know that over there, on the other side, lies another continent, the sea always evokes a sense of infinity—one that the somewhat incongruous objects lining its shores fail to dampen. Photos taken at Cabo de Gata, in Andalusia, not far from another sea—a rather hideous one at that—the «Plastic Sea» of the greenhouses in the province of Almería.
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