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Salton Sea Beach, Salton sea. 10/04/2018 . . 🔹 It's not Florida after an hurricane or Asia after a tsunami. It's worse. A place voluntarily abandoned by the local people. This peaceful place seems to be in war. How is it possible? It's
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Bombay Beach, Salton sea. 10/04/2018 . . 🔹 It's not a the set of a new Mad Max... It's a true Mad Max land! Bombay Beach was famous during the 50 & 60's of the glamour tourism peak because his famous nautical sports (Water skiing, boats
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La Grande Galerie de l'Evolution, Paris, Paris, France. 7/12/2018 . . 🔹 An amazing place in the middle of "Les Jardins des Plantes", in Paris where we can understand there where all the species come from. Enjoy! 🔹 . .
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The Painted Ladies, San Francisco. 9/03/2018 . . 🔹 San Francisco is a city where every streets give you a moment of surprise. That time it was with the Painted Ladies. That guy was the only person to take a sunbath in the parc at the fr
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Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco. 9/01/2018 . . 🔹 That day was windy in SF. It was the morning and the clouds didn't get away still. We decided to visit San Francisco by the bay. A boat take us for tour. The bridge is more impressive I
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Oakland Bridge, San Francisco. 9/01/2018 . . 🔹 I always confused the Oakland Bridge and the Gold gate bridge. Since I've been in SF I Don't confuse anymore. I took this picture from the pier 27. There I could shoot the bridge and also
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Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 7/12/2018 . . 🔹 Generally, stuffed animals are very scary. Not this case. The Museum of Natural History of Paris is a huge complex of building each one with a theme. We can learn a lot about animals an
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Marcinelle, Belgium 7/08/2018 . . 🔹 Finally a picture from the region I come from. Charleroi (Southern Belgium), is a devastated by poverty and corruption during years due to the negligence of city Mayors who succeeded at the head of th
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Salton sea. 6/08/2018 . . 🔹 Always fascinated by the desert and the Salto sea. There are a lot of abandoned houses there. The question is why they are leaving so quickly? Sometimes, the place remains exactly like when somebody was livin
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San Francisco. 9/01/2018 . . 🔹 We (My family and I) passed 4 days in SF. It's an incredible place. Sometimes I could believe I was in Europe. We stayed at the Marriott Marquis in Downtown. The picture was taken from the restaurant on th
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Salvation Mountain. 6/11/2018 . . 🔹 I discovered this place during a location scouting for the movie I prepare. This place could be a place for a post apocalyptic movie. So colorful and so mysterious. The mountain is completely painted
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Borrego Spring s gas station. 6/8/2018 . . 🔹 I spend a lot of time in Anza Borregos desert. The desert is so reposing! In June, I did some scouts location for a movie I prepare and I pass by this wonderful old gas station. It's seems t
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Sanxenxo, Spain, 06.26.2018 . . 🔹 Galicia, June. I love this place. I go there every year (especially in the Arousa Island). This region is well known for his weather. Even the rain is beautiful. That day there is nobody at beach but a
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Paris, Light works and the Eiffel tower. . . 🔹 July 14 in Paris. It's the Bastille Day! The weather was hot and the ambiance in Paris also. The day after (The 15th), France notional soccer team won the world cup! The place I took the p
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Paris Sunset . . 🔹 I'm finally back from my vacation!!! And I have a bunch of new pictures.... First one, "Paris sunset" where I was during the world cup soccer final!!! Paris is a wonderful city where you can find everywhere interestin
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Couch on the rocks La Jolla, 5.27.2018 . . 🔹 I went for a walk at the Wind'n sea beach, when I saw this couch on the rocks. I found some poetry in this situation and I took a picture quickly. It's not perfect but enough well to feel the
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Pacific beach, 4.20.2018. . . 🔹 A windy evening in PB's beach. It was hard to take this picture. First, because the clouds were really low that day. Second, because it was really windy and the tripod moved. Third, because it was a long
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San Diego downtown, 04,06,2018. . . 🔹 That day, I wanted to take a picture of the sunset with the traffic jam. Unfortunately for me, there wasn't a beautiful sunset because it was too cloudy. So I waited the end of the sunset to take a
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Borrego's dragon. Barrage spring. . . 🔹 Last week end for Estern, we walked on a trail in Borrego Spring. Nice weather. Sunny and warm... The oasis trail was enough to exhausted us! Then last gear at the dragon... I really love this pl
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Vineyard, Valle de Guadalupe. Mexico. . . 🔹 During our spring break in Mexico, we visited few vineyards in the Guadalupe's Valley. This picture was taken in the garden of the wine museum. The sky attracted me and to have this kind of te
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Billy Goat from the Guadalupe Valley. Mexico. . . 🔹 BACK from Mexico, where I passed few days last week. I tried some wines on Guadalupe Valley. The place is awesome, with lot of animals the children can play with. I really recommend to
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Brian Head, Ut. . . 🔹 It's an amazing place for skiing surrounded by woods cabines. There's no number at the front door. So the cabine's owners hung sign with their names on the pole to help postmen to find their house! It's very charm
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Bryce Canyon, Utah. . . 🔹 A wonderful place! Utah is amazing. I just had time to see few parks last year when I visited southern Utah. You can see there traces of the fight between elements. Water, earth, wind... I feel so little in fro
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Parowans diner, Utah. . . 🔹 We passed by Parowan to dinner. We stopped here at the Rambouillet. Nice place as I love it. True American place. Hamburgers was delicious and the place really photogenic. I took many pictures of the place.
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Joshua Tree, 3.27.2017. . . 🔹 Joshua tree in the Joshua Tree Park. I use for this one a polarized filter to have the sky truly blue. I had to crop the image and I took the choice to keep the image cropped and to not to distort the image
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San Diego's view by the bay. . . 🔹 This picture is part of my series on Coronado's view. I took this picture just in front of the convention center of San Diego one hour before sunset. We already can see the change of light. The sea was
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Coronado Bridge before sunset. . . 🔹 I took this picture just before the sunset. The light began to be yellow and very contrasted. This fence is just to remember that all the Coronado Island is a military base. I like the contrast betwe
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Milky Way and the Dragon. . . 🔹 I took this picture during a night trip in Anza-Borrego. I painted the dragon with 2 types of light. One blue (7500K°) and the other yellow (3500°K). I set up the time of exposure at 30 seconds and I lash
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Coronado bridge. . . 🔹 I took this picture in coronado Island. As always, while I waited the right moment to take picture of the sunset, I walked around the place to see if something can catch my look. I was absorbed by the Coronado Bri
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San Diego by night from Coronado. . . 🔹 This is a part of a panoramic I took from the Centennial Park in Coronado. The sun was just gone and waited the right moment to take several pictures of the skyline. Instagram doesn't allow to pos
