First snow on the rural landscape

First snow on the rural landscape around Musièges moutain

 

An image from today.
Winter is not officialy here but we have some nice snow falls here for about one week.
I just needed a little jump out of the house this afternoon for this new image to add to my ongoing serie about the rural landscapes around my home.

Autumn landscape in the french countryside

Autumn landscape in the french countryside

 

Another view of this scene posted a few weeks ago.
This new image was done about 15 days after the first one and the colors show by themselves the evolution of autumn during these two weeks.

Rural landscape with hay stacks in Massif des Bauges

Rural landscape with hay stacks in Massif des Bauges mountains

 

One more image of this july afternoon in Massif des Bauges Natural Park.
This one was done just a very short time after i left my client, at the beginning of my long drive through the park.
I saw these hay stacks near the road when i was on a pass named Col des Prés. It was not the best time for photography but my stock was short of rural landscapes with hay stacks, so i stopped for a very few images.

I'll soon post more pictures from this day here but i've published the most interesting ones on my website a few days ago. You can have a look here.

Autumn in the rural landscape

Autumn in the rural landscape

 

Yesterday, we had a rainy and misty morning here. I went for a little walk in the rural landscape around my home thinking the wet atmosphere coud give some nice results with the autumn colors and the colza flowers.

La Compote, mountain village in Massif des Bauges Natural Park

La Compôte en Bauges

 

An image from july.
In this hot summer day afternoon, i was driving through Massif des Bauges Natural Park, back from a client assignment. I had spent the morning making architecture images of a wood made building and wanted to relax a bit and explore the park.
I love driving on mountain roads, climbing the passes and discovering the landscape all around.

I arrived at La Compôte in the second part of afternoon, had a fresh drink in a café, hiked the hills all around for a few shots and drove to Annecy lake and Duing castle.

Chateau des Pres, village in Haut Jura Natural Park

Rural landscape around Château des Prés, Haut Jura Natural Park

 

This pretty place was along my road last week when i was driving to Abbey lake ...

Springtime on the french countryside

Springtime on the french countryside

 

An April view of the green fields in the rural landscapes around my home.
Past summer, the plowed area you can see on the left was covered with colza flowers.

LINKS:
My landscapes photo gallery.
All my images about the french rural world.

Rural landscape at springtime

Rural landscape at springtime

 

One new addition to this serie featuring the rural landscape around my home.
That's an image from the very last day of Mai and compared to past year, spring colours are late. In 2011 i was making such images of the french countryside in April.
This one was done with a long lens from the hill above my house, looking at a remote one on the other side of the valley.

An old tree

An old tree

 

An image from 2 days ago, to add to this serie about the rural landscapes around my home.

As this place is really close to my home, i'll probaly soon return there for some images at blue hour and/or for some long exposures by a windy day.

Musieges, hilltop village in Haute Savoie

Musièges

One new image in the serie about the rural landscapes around my home.

I could have titled it View from my window but that's not exactly true. I really have a view on this village from my home but i had to climb another hill to find this point of view.
I've always loved this scene but despite the proximity, i don't have any outstanding image of Musièges. This recent one is one of my fav, i think this point of view is one of the best on the village but i need to return for a better light.

Apple tree in the snow

Apple tree in the snow

A view of my garden in the early morning of february 1.

Roussette vineyard in the snow

Roussette vineyard in the snow

I started to make images of the french vineyard when i was living in Provence.
The first ones were done for wine producers and after that i did more and more of such photos and i know have a great stock collection of images about grapes and vines.

When i left Provence in 2010 i almost stopped to shoot vineyards but i live in an area where is done a special wine the Roussette de Savoie. So from time to time i take my camera and continue to grow the collection.
This image was done a few days ago at the beginning of the freezing cold whe know have.

Winter morning

Winter morning

An image from this early morning, done during a cold outing in the rural landscape around my home.

Not a very good day : some snow but not enough for really nice images, some mist from time to time but not enough for a wonderful mood.
With two or three abstract ones, this photo is probably the most interesting from the serie.

Weekly commented photo # 51 - First snow

First snow on the rural landscape around my home

Three weeks later than in 2010, the first snows came here during the last week end.
Not huge snowfalls but enough to paint most of the landscape in white.
This image is from monday, i had no other correct photographic opportunities since these days. The rain came back and i couldn't left my office to go to the mountains because the end of year is filled with administratives obligations and clients relationships. So i spent most of the week on the phone and behind the computers.

The good news are i received the confirmation that i was hired for photographing many wood made buildings in 2012 and the biggest french producer of chestnut cream also bought seven of my stock images about chestnuts and chestnut trees.

Autumn trees in my backyards

At the beginning of the year, i started a new serie about The rural landscapes around my home.

If you read the introduction here you will understand that it's something different of my usual landscape work. It's also different of the usual imagery about typical rural scenes with haystacks and tractors.

It's mostly about documenting and sharing the atmosphere of this place where lived my grand parents and where i live now.

This image was done at the end of october in the field just under my house.
A springtime view of the other side of this field can be seen here.

Rural landscape in the morning mist

I've spent many times shooting during this autumn for personnal and clients projects and know i'm late with tons of file to process...

This one send us back to the last day of september when i went to Arcine to get images of the autumn around the Rhône river.

The nut tree near the rural path can also be seen here.

Rural landscape under the clouds in Haut Jura Natural Park

Rural landscape under the clouds on Bellecombe plateau

Despite of the cloudy sky, that's a summer image from august.
It was done during one of my first explorations on Bellecombe plateau and perfectly illustrates the atmosphere in which people often live here.

Weekly commented photo # 40 - Lonely tree in a misty rural landscape

Lonely tree in a misty rural landscape


This is an autumn image without the usual autumn colours. Nuts are still on the walnut tree and this one is still mostly green.

The photo was done in Arcine, just near the village.
I stopped there while i was on the road to go to the Rhône valley for images of the autumn forest along the river. The valley is a few kilometers behind this tree and was lost in a deep fog when i arrived.

I noticed this misty scene around the tree while driving but followed my initial idea and went to the Rhône. Seeing there wouldn't be any good photographic opportunities near the river before at least one hour, i drove back to this field where the fog was a little lighter.

I did a few compositions turning around the tree with a wide angle lens and some soft GND filters. After that i walked back to my car that was parked a little above the field and then tried some other images from the road with a longer lens.
While i was walking, the mist became deeper and deeper and when i arrived on the road, there was so much fog between the tree and i that my autofocus couldn't work.

I switched the camera to manual focusing and did a few images before driving back to the river where i had to wait about half an hour for the fog to disappear and make photos like this one.

About the last images of the walnut tree i made from the road, they nicely show the tree silhouette in the mist but i still hesitate about how to process them. Will i keep the very soft silhouette or will i try to get something more detailed ?

Autumn dusk on Roussette vineyard

Autumn dusk on Roussette vineyard - Haute Savoie


Roussette is the name of a french white wine produced locally here around Frangy.
There are many vines fields in the rural landscape around my home and this image was done yesterday evening in the beautiful light of an autumn dusk.
The snowy mountain you can see in the background is the Mont Blanc which was the highest european mountain until some politics decided to change what Europe was.

I also have a large photo gallery about the french vineyard on my main website but most of the images where done in Provence.

Electric lines in the landscape

The landscape around Bellecombe in Haut Jura Natural Park


One more image of Bellecombe plateau in Haut Jura Natural Park.

Done a few time before this other one and before the rain really starts.

I usually try to avoid these electric lines in my photos. I first walked, looking for a point of view where they wouldn't be too much present in the images but here they really cross most of the place. I finally decided not to fight more against that and tried to include all this wire stuff in the most pleaseant way.