Les Etangs de la Minière

That's quite a nice place between Versailles and Guyancourt. One can have there a romantic walk and it is also possible to practice mountain biking around.
There are plenty of blue flowers, badly lit at the end of the day. In the morning, it should be better.

a week-end in brussels (2nd part)

Even if I didn't take my tripod , I took some nightshots . I used every possibility to stabilize my camera and with a high ISO setting and some noise reduction post-processing , I got some quite acceptable results.

a week-end in Brussels

I am used to go to Brussels for business. Then I am used to see only the train station and the underground. This time, I was in Brussels for a weekend and I took my camera with me ...

Yellow house in murano

Murano can be really quiet if you avoid hundreds of glasswork shops .

everything starts with fire

Of course, without flash, I used a massive D-lighting post-processing . Prined out, it should show some noise...

Murano

Hello,

I am still working on the pictures from our last vacations in Venice.
Near Venice, there is a small island, named Murano. This place is famous for the glass art of the very numerous craftsmen. There are around 300 furnaces in that small island . A long time ago, the government of the Venice Republic decided to move the furnaces from downtown to this place for two reasons:
- in Venice, all building structures are made of wood. You can imagine what could happen with furnaces everywhere
- they wanted to protect their know-how , that was a long time before Japanese "tourists" and after them Chinese came to "visit" the factories.
We visited a factory too and I took some pictures without flash and from a not very good point of view . Let's see ...