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Saint Barth 2011 – Day 3

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Some pictures taken by night from the villa Agave. Actually, it was fully dark (22:30) :-) But with a very long exposure (30s, which explains the blurred effect on the palm trees and the clouds) and high-ISO (1600) you can have some interesting effect. You can see some lights at the bottom of the pictures and some stars in the sky.

Villa Agave by night

Saint Barth 2011 – Day 2

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Wow, first “wake-up” in Saint Barth at 06:15 this morning, which is not bad with our –5 hours time difference! So we again enjoy the 25°C in the morning ;-)

Then, we decide to go to Maya’s to Go for a breakfast, as we couldn’t buy everything yesterday day for a good holidays breakfast. There, super idea from my wife who proposed to take the breakfast and have it … on the beach! So that’s what we did :-) Breakfast at Saint Jean beach at 07:15.

What a great experience….

First swim in the ocean (27°C) and the swimming-pool (28°C). Outside: 30°C.

Life is soooo tough here, hihihi.

By the way, I have bought a new Canon lens for my 5D MarkII just before leaving: a new ultra-wide angle from Canon, the EF 16-35mm  f/2.8 L II USM, with a B+W 82mm MRC Slim UV Filter. The first “results” here (post-produced with DxO as Single HDR shot).

Breakfast on Saint Jean Beach this morning

Saint Barth 2011 – Day 1

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Arrived this afternoon on the "island". A bit of delay between Paris and Saint Martin, but anyway we are here with all our luggage (!), our rented Mini Cab, and our rented villa (Agave). First dinner at Andy, as usual. Just great. Again this strong feeling that we left yesterday!

Now sitting on the terrace, with a good cigar (Davidoff Grand Cru no. 2),an old rhum (Vieux Rhum Clément from Martinique), and listening to the last Marianne Faithfull ;-)

Life is good. And appreciated!

Happy happy happy :-)

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You know what? I’m just happy :-) And I would like to share that with you.
I have closed Outlook, sent my last professional emails, activated the “out-of-office” message, had the last telephone calls, and now I am on HOLIDAYS for 2.5 weeks!!

And just starting to realize that tomorrow I will be in Saint Barth with my wife and my son. I am waiting for this moment for quite a long time. Not because I have no fun or because my life is boring :-), simply because I am exhausted and I really really need to charge my batteries again! And what for a better place than Saint Barth to do that? :-)

Thanks to all, my family, my friends, my friends and colleagues from Innoveo, our partners and customers, for your good wishes and your valuable inputs that we have to benefit from this time. Totally agree! It’s the first time since years that I will not have a look at my professional emails during my holidays. Let’s see if I can manage that, I will tell you when I will be back ;-)

You can expect a *lot* of colorful pictures posted here in the coming 2.5 weeks, I’m prepared and in the “starting block” for posting!

And yes, I can tell everybody that we know how far we are super lucky to be able to go “there” again. No question or hesitation about that.

So, see you on the other side, and take care!

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Cool birthday party today at Innoveo

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Yes, it’s my birthday today ;-)

Had a great time with my colleagues and friends at Innoveo. Chocolate cake Trilogy with some champagne. Miam!

Warm thanks to all of you for your kind messages in Skype, per Email, per SMS, in Twitter, in Facebook, in Xing, in LinkedIn, per telephone (still!), and directly/physically ;-) Gosh, also in this field, a kind of multichanneling seems to be more and more important!

Thanks to Laurent for the picture.