Life is too short – Saint Barth in 2 weeks

Posted on July 20, 2011 by Didier

As life is too short, and after a (very) fast “family discussion” for a while, we have decided all three together that it is the right moment to return to Saint Barth a second time this year. And this, in exactly two weeks (we will arrive on August 3)!

We are all three just super mega happy, starting to prepare us for our coming stay in paradise.

It seems that the island is very green, so hopefully new perspectives for new pictures ;-)

(writing this post near our fireplace, strange cold summer here in Alsace/France…)

Canon vs. Nikon

Posted on July 7, 2011 by Didier

via Mashable

No no, I’m not entering the religion fight between the Canon and Nikon fans ;-) As you may know, I’m a happy Canon user for years now, and with the time, you get used to the interface of Canon or Nikon cameras and, if you have some good expensive lenses, you are so or so stuck with one or the other.

There are for sure some detailed differences between both brands, but generally speaking, both have very happy users since years…

What I haven’t realized, on the other hand, is the difference of size between both companies. Actually, Canon is much bigger than Nikon and is selling 4x more DSLR than Nikon! That was not clear for me, always had the impression that both are more or less of equal size…

	Nikon	Canon
Founded in	1910	1937
Number of employees	~ 26’000	~ 197’000
Revenues on cameras 2008 2010	4.8 bn EUR 4.8 bn EUR	12.1 bn EUR 11.5 bn EUR
Revenues on DSLR 2008 2010	2.1 bn EUR 1.9 bn EUR	7.9 bn EUR 8.1 bn EUR

Provence, Baux-de-Provence, Saint Rémy, …

Posted on June 27, 2011 by Didier

We could have some days off end of April at Les Baux-de-Provence in South-East of France / Provence. A real nice stay actually! I finally invest the time to post-produce my photos. This time, no big equipment, just my little Canon S90 and DxO…

Ousteau de Baumanière

Ousteau de Baumanière, an excellent hotel, perfectly positioned near les Baux-de-Provence, Saint-Rémy-de-Provence (which is much nicer than les Baux, too much touristic and artificial for our taste), les Alpilles, Avignon, etc. Service was really great, as the room we had. Two restaurants in the hotel, both worth a visit ;-) L’Ousteau itself which is a 2* Michelin, absolutely fantastic, and la Cabro d’Or, a 1* Michelin, which is also very interesting. We had there a “vertical” degustation menu with 10 dishes all based on different excellent local olive oils, including the dessert!

Baux-de-Provence

Oppède le Vieux

A small village in the Luberon

Olive groves

This region is a kind of paradise for people (like me) that likes olive oils. A lot of small producers, so many different tastes, pure happiness!

Les Alpilles

Portfolio

You can find the whole Baux-de-Provence portfolio here.

Nice sunset this evening at home!

Posted on June 22, 2011 by Didier

Stork, bumblebee, mowing…

Posted on April 11, 2011 by Didier

Active week-end!

Surprise, a stork in our field…

First bumblebees appearing…

First mowing…

Saint Barth 2011 – Day 17

Posted on March 11, 2011 by Didier

To celebrate the “first week over and back to work”, I would like to share these pictures taken from the plane just after the take off from Saint Barth. My personal mood at this time was, how to express that?, not the best moment of these fantastic holidays…