Africa in Provence

Provence landscape : La Plaine des Maures after the rain
Provence has always been a hot country but from a few years, summers seem to be more and more dry.
In 2007, from june to october we had no cloud and no rain. In the middle of the month, whe had 2 days of strong rain. Just when the sun came back, i went with my wife and daughter in La Plaine des Maures guessing i could make some nice landscape photographs.
The place was wonderful with many little rivers and ponds borned with the rain.
I always love (and often go) making photos here. This place is also named Little Africa with a red rocky ground covered by bush and some evergreen parasol pines forests.

My 3 yo daughter spent her time bathing in some ponds while i was hiking and shooting around. The photo above is one of my favorites from this day with the little river running in the grass burnt by the summer dryness.

Fine art prints are available for sale in my Etsy shop.

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The image above is available for sale as a fine art print in my Etsy shop.

Just a few things

On Sunday i had my first sale on Etsy. Someone bought a 45x30cm fine art print of this sunflowers field landscape.

I've just updated the Useful Tools links list on the right column of this blog with one new link.

• Zoomify provides a nice and free tool to make zoomable web images. Very simple, this tool permits to show some high definition images on the net. I think i will soon show some here and probably implement it in my panoramic images gallery on patmo.net.