Les U9 du Mulhouse Water-Polo

Posted on December 21, 2014 by Didier

Vendredi soir, j’ai pu assister pour la première fois à l’entraînement des U9 du Mulhouse Water-polo.
Incroyablement bluffant! Thierry Estebe (directeur sportif du Mulhouse Water-Polo), leur entraîneur, fait un travail exceptionnel avec les tous jeunes du club, vraiment super….
Nos “p’tits jeunes” sont tous très concentrés et impliqués tout au long de l’entraînement. Déjà de vraies postures de poloistes “comme les grands”!
Et déjà 2 entraînements par semaine.
Je suis jaloux, j’aurai bien aimé aussi commencer à cet âge, et pas à 42 ans, ahah!
Entre les équipes de U9, U13, U15, U17, l’équipe 1 & 2 senior, et nous les “U65/loisir”, la boucle est bouclée!

Toutes les photos sont là:
http://visuals.didierbeck.com/Water-polo/20142015/MWP-U9/

U13 Mulhouse Water-Polo

Posted on December 9, 2014 by Didier

Photos prises ce dernier dimanche, Mulhouse Water-Polo U13 contre Belfort et Dole:

Et le portfolio ici:

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.

Holiday is cool, as my new Canon S90!

Posted on August 8, 2010 by Didier

Quick “hello” from Combrit Saint Marine in Brittany.

We are finished with our “stroll week”. Each day about 6-8 hours on foot, a looonnngggg time we haven’t done that ;-) Fantastic landscape, varying a lot each day, as the weather!

That’s a real break, different from St Barth, but still a cool break. Today, first time with a kind of real Internet connection ;-)

As I didn’t want to transport my 3+ kg Canon EOS 5D MarkII with its lens during the 6+ hours walk per day, I have bought a Canon S90, just before going on holiday. As a Canon-fan, I had mainly the choice between a G11 or a S90, both with almost the same technical and optical characteristics, excepted that the G11 is still quite big. Some pictures below (RAW + DxO post-prod, but with a small netbook ;-). More on the Canon S90 later. But generally speaking I’m super happy with it!

Now, back to the “big one”!

New lens, Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM

Posted on July 15, 2010 by Didier

I’ve just acquired a new Canon L-series lens for my full-frame EOS 5D MarkII, the famous EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM. First impression: very sharp, fast autofocus, controlled vignetting (as usual some issues at the ends, specially around 28mm), solid, heavy (950g…), interesting focal length range – will take it with me for the coming holidays in August.

Post-production with DxO Optics Pro 6 Elite, which has a specific module for the combination Canon EOS 5D MarkII + the Canon EF 24-70mm L.

First pictures taken with it:

Some reviews found:

Canon website about this lens.

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