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New Blog

2008-12-01T04:03:00.000-08:00

This blog has moved to here
I had enough of spending hard time with blogger which is definitly not a good site for blogging, (upload of the photos sucks).

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Ce blog a changé d'adresse !
Blogger m'a gavé, pas assez évolutif , pas assez intuitif etc.

Late late

2008-11-12T14:37:00.001-08:00

yup I'm late with the blog, well, I didn't upload anything cause it was pretty empty for me lately. Sometimes, nothing happens and so your photography is as empty as my activity was. Hopefully, this end of year gonna bring some fresh news and some awesome things to me.

Kro obviously tired (twas the day after my lil birthday party)

Another place , another time and another pints at the good old smoking fucking dog. Figure out that, PM and I wanted to go to sainté for a photo session and some shopping. Arrived at saint etienne, the weather became crap and ended by huge rain (it was the week end when some cities of my area got flooded by rivers), so we had to find a shelter which was obviously the smoking

After the smoking dog, we went to Uptown (one of the best skate shop here), I tried to take a photo but was quite already boozed .
There they are ! the uptown team .
le Totem de têtes , it was fun to go shopping being drunk.

Had a drink with Nathalie Aka Yolande, I stole this photo cause she didn't want to let me take one.

At the studio, we were having fun with spotlights and so , she is Sarah Jean Michel took a photo of me aswell with the 85mm
Not at the studio, but at home was speaking to him when I took the shot, kinda like hhow spontaneous this shot is.

On my way home ...

Ah yes, I forgot to say : In december I'll be in Egypt !!! yay

Like a monday afternoon

2008-10-20T05:18:00.000-07:00

Spent on washing the car and doin house tasks, how exciting isn't it?
Ok on with the photos as I'm not inspired to talk :)

J'ai trouvé le message décalé, surtout lorsqu'on parle de nouveau 'bretton woods' (lol ) qui devrait faire évoluer le capitalisme vers plus de régulation et d'humanisme (?)

Francois , 1 er test du flash , assurément cramé mais marrant comme rendu.

Notre nouveau Zenith, enfin sainté aura droit à de grands concerts avec des artistes connus !

"C'est notre collègue lui!", le chat de Teznac lorsqu'on est allé faire mon anniv, il nous a tenu compagnie toute la soirée lol. Merci d'être venus les amis, ca m'a fait plaisir :)

25 Ans de Kro

2008-10-13T15:38:00.000-07:00

Cela faisait longtemps que j'avais pas pris mon appareil lors d'une soirée, du coup ca été une bonne occaz :)
25 ans de Kro, ptite salle réservée, un ptit buffet très sympa, des amis, une sono et il en fallait pas plus pour passer une bonne soirée !!

Le Julio

Kro tout sourire en train de faire le tour des invités

ptit auto portrait dans les chiottes

J'aime bien comment elle est ressortie, prise sur le vif et le flash a pas trop cramé pr selon.
Ptite course improvisée, les garcons devait éclater le plus de ballons en s'asseyant sur les filles.

Julio et Nadège

Le marie et le boub

Cyril le frère du Tonte, en très grande forme ce soir là ! La il faisait une pose de blais devant les paparazzis.

Une véritable rock star le nico ! ;)
ca monte en pression la :D

Heil ! lol sur le coup ca prete a confusion mais je vous rassure c juste l'effet Gilbert Montagnier

Cyr, ptit poulain , vince et ma soeur en train de poser et d'exprimer leur joie de vivre.

DJ@work !

Le Marie en train de mixer :)

Lucie et son copain, Rémi un ami de Kro, Mandy et ... je me rappelle plus.

L'équipe du dehors
Raaah , paye ton cloclo :p

Le chapeau des catherinettes !

Une rentrée bien morose

2008-09-15T04:28:00.000-07:00

Certes les rentrées sont jamais bien joyeuses mais vu ce qui m'est arrivé je crois que j'ai eu ma dose de morosité jusqu'à la fin de l'année!
En septembre payes ta crise d'appendicite et évidemment des ptites complications post opératoires (votre narrateur est définitivement quelqu'un de chanceux), donc aprés 15 jours d'hôpital à ne pouvoir rien faire à part dormir (même pas manger) chier et regarder la TV, je suis enfin de retour chez moi! Toutefois, ce passage à l'hopital m'a permis de me rendre compte de plusieurs choses : Notre santé ne tient qu'à un putain de fil, je pensais aussi à tort que l'opération ne me laisserait que des traces que quelques jours mais j'ai tjrs mal en ce moment (comme quoi les séries tv disent n'importe quoi lol), le personnel soignant fait aussi un boulot formidable, que les personnes qui sont touchés par des maladies graves ont un courage que je ne penses pas avoir... Bref, en 15 jours de non activité et coupé du monde, j'ai eu le temps de cogiter et de dormir aussi ;)
Récemment j'ai investi dans un objectif 85mm , il est vraiment pas mal même si je ne l'ai encore bien en main. Voila quelques images prises avec :

Du vieux stuff que j'avais pas uploader ici mais sur mon compte DA. Jte mets les deux versions cheeb si jamais tu passes par là.

Celle ci a été retouchée par Vedas //Post work by Vedas for skin details and other details.

Amsterdam

2008-08-06T09:04:00.000-07:00

Ahem yes I'm late very late with the blog. Anyway today I'm motivated ! So here are the last shots of my trip to amsterdam, I didn't post all the photos but you can find some on my deviantart account.

Some weed from the different coffess we went to. All excellent stuff !
Giant bike parking.

Bikes till no end !

Nearby the casino of Amsterdam
A lil break the hardrock café, it's really well placed and you 've got a nice view of the canals there.
Yeah , 10 mm is not for portraiture I know!
It was euro time so the whole city had decoration stuff like that to support the Oranje.
Obviously some tourists who paid for a ride with the yellow bikes, not as fun as a rent of free bikes.
Vondelpaark (I think it's the name)

Small entryNot far from the redlight district ^^

Asian temple, there is a kinda lil chinatown in Amsterdam.
Van Gogh Museum, We didn't go to visit it, way too much people and way too much expansive for 2 buddies like us.

It's a really nice place, everybody comes out even if the weather is not that warm , the city has lots animation during the night. Definitly a nice place to visit

Madame Tussaud , Rock on Freddie !
view on the Dam rack , the were preparing for the euro exhibition, the oranje played againt the russian but unfortunately they lost.At Madame Tussaud you can meet Mister Kennedy
or a random old dutch lady
or see the brothers de Boer
or laugh at the face of the poor Ronnie

Or finally meet Charlie beginning of the Redlight District... I had to put the camera away, didn't want to have troubles with some pimps or some caged beauties.

I'm sure I've forgotten some photos... bah it doesn't matter, you 've got the most important.

See you very soon for a short post.

Amsterdam Session [part two]

2008-06-30T04:16:00.000-07:00

Funny how it reminded me of my first post on blogspot, so here's a pre-post cause as you might know I'm quite a lazy ass :)
So I suppose I'll be fullfilling the post whenever I get the photos ready. Guess what? Most of the photos are downloaded in my computer but I've not been editing them execpt some for my deviantart account.
So I've been to Amsterdam for a 4 days long trip with José aka PM, it was cool to get back there and that time I was less lost than I have been the first time :) , we walked a lot, smoked a lot , walked again and did some photography. Concerning photography I 've been an idiot with my cameras, I 've lent him a 35 mm lens and mostly used the 10-22 instead.. .Silly me. Added to that I've wasted a roll of hp5 when I wanted to switch to some Tri-X 400 (I was pretty happy with that, 36 photos wasted in 2 sec). May you enjoy the photos anyway.... So on with the shoots.

Old photos for beginning, those bucks caught my attention , 10 000 $ is not that usual . fake money for a studio shoot I think.
Sarah from the PCSE (the association which owns the lab and the studio)
One of her friend, I don't remember the name...
Yvan testing the new camera of Jean Mi

Yolande ! ;)
aha This is just a test on PS, fucking huge vignetting it sucks but I somehow liked the composition.
Underexposed ... With my screen calibration it's ok though.
Another place another time, in the train to Paris and then Amsterdam.

Paris , Gare du Nord . We had to wait until the departure to Amsterdam, so we had some beers at the bar. it's such a smart way to kill time.

Arrival at the hotel. pretty good room though we were usually woken up by the housewive at 9h am.
Fist night, first coffee shop. We had a burger at the the Leidseplein burger king and then we went to to see the euro game at the Bulldog. Some Jack Herrer here, pretty good.

Next morning , we went to buy some tickets at the GVB (tramways, cars, mero company) so we went to the Damrak.
A shame I didn't dare to get closer to shoot them.

The Magna Plazza, a commercial center. I thought it was a museum first lol.

The bikes, there are so much and eveywhere that you must have a photo of them if you go there.
Ok enough with blogging. To be continued next time I'm motivated, stay tuned ;)

Soon

2008-05-28T09:55:00.000-07:00

Yeaaaaaah soon I'll be in Amsterdam. Just received the booked tickets :)

Can't wait to get back there and see those nice streets ! Gonna be fun and I gonna be quiet there with no fucking Phones ringing everywhere, no fucking IT . Just Photography, beers , weed and fun with one my friend !

Cheers !

1st days of may

2008-05-04T05:58:00.000-07:00

They were pretty bright and it was to have some days spent outside.

So for the the 1st of may which was a day off, I've visited my uncle though I was not that motivated to have a family lunch (always way too long to my mind) but fortunately it happened to be a really nice day. As my uncle is a potter (sounds like stupid related with harry potter), I decided to have some shoot of his pieces of pottery.

That lamp was pretty curious, very old school

It seems to be a stone on a plate , but it's all pottery. I like the textures that it can provides

The potter himself If I were a kid I would be scared with those statues, they have such a weird face.

Wouldn't you be scared?

My cousin eating some meat ahah

My dad , I was pretty happy with that photo. It 's pretty neat and the contrast are good.Today we had a barbecue. Took the photo just for fun.

Varied stuff and panic for holidays

2008-04-30T15:48:00.000-07:00

Hallo,

I guess I've changed my photo entries, less photos of friends partying, haven't I?
I suppose it's because I don't catch the camera really often lately, lack of motivation? perhaps ... bored to be the asian paparazzi? perhaps lol. Can't really tell . Whatever
Anyway it's not because I'm not doing much that i don't have anything new to show
So on to the photos

Second print ! fucking scanner didn't reproduce very well the genuine grey tones of the photo but well, can't scan it better so far as I don't have any better scanner and gave the original print to Kro.

A little of self , what a willing of looking like handsome on the web ,classic lol

At the studio, we were just 3 survivors . It used to have rather more members when I joined it.

Immediate embarkation to future !

I've bought a new cell phone, pretty nice though I had troubles with the power supply.

He's Lawrence, my collegue ! At the office, having some shoots for fun

Again some flowers , spring time ... I really should stop photographing flowers , it's so boring and uninteresting ;)

Tonite I've been trying with Francois some macro shoot with his kit of lenses. He has some really kicking ass stuff. Some olympus lens (50mm) and others I don't remember.That's a sponge as you can guess

Just try to guess what's the second one. Looks like something viewed by a microscope.

Thanks for spending time in here (if you ever come across that page).Ah yes, life is really unfair. My bosses don't have any problems to schedule their holidays but concerning your poor narrator it's fucking difficult to let him take his holidays earlier. So as I can't go to Amsterdam with most of my mates next week because of my bloody job and can't schedule another travel there with one of my best friend because they won't let me take them at the beggining of june. I 'm really pissed off with them, damn liars. Whatever, that's life I suppose

Hello again

2008-04-10T09:12:00.000-07:00

Here I am again, posting stuff again, blogging again .. So what's up?
I finally got a fix contract, so I now wanna find a flat in my area. I'm not so hurry to find one cause I ain't that rich, but it'd be cool to have one own home. Except that, april is the month of birthdays, didn't bring my camera with me at the different parties I've been to . So no new stuff, well nothing really exciting though I 'm doing an entry.

So I went back to that place, near Centre Deux to have a shoot of that building. Unfortunately I went there too early in the afternoon, awful rough light. So had one random shoot and got angry because of the result and finally gave up.

Last wednesday while leaving the darkroom/lab, decided to have some photos of those stairs located in Saint Etienne. Dinner time so it was quiet, usually it ain't.

Seat
Green lights for the greens (local football team) yay. a pity I didn't have my 10mm .

Lil sister glaring at me with killer eyes, she definitly hates being photographed ahah
random plants, if we can call that a plant.

Yay for spring! it gives such artsy but boring- to- death shoots ;)
the only one left after the mown.

And Finally I shall end with some oldies I didn't post last times, they made me laugh when I found them back :p

Curious composition, last new year at the alps

Gnéééé !

Random thoughts and photos of a random guy

2008-03-19T16:39:00.000-07:00

Yeah, it's what came to my mind while browsing the internet and especially photoblogs or just blogs.
It's funny to see how the Internet has developed the communication but reduced it for most of its users. I mean, exchanging informations is not a problem, publishing shit, making ads is easy to do, but to be really listened is something which is that hard on that media, in the ocean of blogs your voice just get lost because we're flooded by informations and ads. Best example : That blog. it's just my lil voice in the universe Blogger.com, who really cares?
I don't mind being a random guy with a random blog, I just like to write down some (stupid) thoughts and upload photos that my friends can come to download.
Ok enough with mental shit harrassement, I've got some fresh photos to show :

At the lab/studio, Jean-Mi who was preparing the spotlights and camera settings for a session that week end. I ain't the photographer as you gonna see.
Me being unfocused, bah it's rare to have a photo of my face I don't censore lol.

The umbrella spotlight. Who never played with light provided by those or by any lamps to get an abstract result?
The colors of the trays reminded me the famous green/yellow/red combo.
The lighting box gave me a soft light and the shoot turned out quite well.

Those red lamps have always fascinated me, well , so still do the whole process.
I apologise for that uninteresting photo cat, but couldn't prevent myself to upload one lol.

allright, 1h30 AM, big day tomorrow before week end. I shall go to bed.
Oh
And before I forget : Support radiodio.org ! It's a local and independant radio station which actually have some troubles and which runs the risk of being closed down. it's the only radio I shall listen to, so far as there are no ads, good and varied emissions. I'm pretty pissed off with listening to the popular shit so keep up one completely free radio station!

It's always a pain in the ass to find a title when there's no content in the post.

2008-03-12T15:37:00.000-07:00

Soo yes, I really have a problem with titles and introductions, sorry for not being a good narrator.
What's up then?
I plan to go back to Amsterdam with some friends and maybe if I've got some days off I might go to Sweden aswell ! But for now it's just some projects I wish to realize soon. Hopefully I'll get the money and the time to realize them.
Photographically speaking (is it a good translation?), I've been working and learning a lot but one day per week in the darkroom. 1 day/week , it's fucking not enough ! I also don't spend enough time outside shooting whatever I find interesting, so don't expect a long post.
Ok, after one hour of vain tries and failures, I finally came out with this :

Ilford HP5+ 400

Yay for the 1st print !! Of course I've been helped by the nice Francois. But I'm kinda disappointed, it's not as sharp as I expected it to be. + it's misfocused. Ah yes the 'model' is one of my uncle.

And now back to more usual stuff, some photos of darkest pub of Saint-Etienne, the Smoking Dog. Again ... the damn 350D can't go up to 1600 ISO and that's a shame, I opened the best I could and I got that horrible photo.

Same for here, those pints deserved a better photograph (and also a better photographer)
Right, I hope some of you will somehow enjoy those photographs. If I go back to Amsterdam, I'll be bringing back fine art for sure ahah.

Have a lovely day or at least a good night. Cya

Changes and petite annonce

2008-02-16T08:15:00.000-08:00

Almost March... Maybe soon I'll be jobless again maybe not, depends on the Groupe Zannier and mostly myself. Shall I go on doing a job which is definitly not the best I could get or take a risk (for once) and leave it all away? I still dunno, I 'd like to have a year working abroad to see new things but there's a step to go. It's like The more I get older the less risky I become.
Anyway, I've not been doing much photography lately, except developing one roll of Ilford hp5+.

I still look for a negative adaptater on the epson perfection 1260 I've got Or any which would work on a hp officejet 6315 (They call it TMA thingy). So if someone ever has a look on that page and who'd be interested to sell one, do not hesitate to mail me.
Once I've got one I 'll be able to upload some of the photos I've taken with my pentax, still no idea of what they look like so far as I don't have a clue if the negs are good or not. It seems it's ok for some, not for some. Ok on with the photos :
*lil update 06/03 // ptite mise a jour, j'avais oublié des fotos ^^

I know I've posted a similar shoot but I really like the light in there
At Vince's place, we were drinking in an underground room. Memories from childhood
Pints of cervoise on a saturday night,
Grainy photo cause the pub was fucking dark. 1600 iso with 1.8 of aperture, the best I could have with my config on the damn 350D.

It seems spring is already here

Truly boring, bah just enjoy the colors
I've got some of my photos printed, my parents decided to get some of the digital ones printed . It feels good to have a 'real' photograph in the hands.

Today in Saint-Etienne, that naked statue is pretty famous in my lil hometown. I've thought I never took any photo of it so I decided to shoot it while I was going to the Fnac to see if those idiots would have the scanner accessory I'm looking for.
Have a good time all.

Cheers

Lorent

...

2008-01-31T07:41:00.000-08:00

Yeah no inspiration for the title. sorry. I try as possible to upload some photos which maybe don't worth to be uploaded but here 's my selection of some recent or old fotos. I might be a lil subjective concerning my own work, I mean sometimes I really wanna take them out and begin it again just because it's not like I wanted to be. I wonder if every photographers who have a blog think like that about their own blogs.
Ok I stop with that, so lately I've taken some photos on the pentax super ME (remember ?). I've already done 2 rolls (I know i know, I'm a beginner) but still wait to develop them. We've been talking a lot in the darkroom but not doing photography, isn't that weird for a photo club?
Hopefully I'll be processing them on wednesday and will get the negs next week. Gonna see if my scanner is good enough to get some decent results. So stay tune ;)

Kro playing with her green lighter, old stuff I've taken out my storage folders.
A complete fake smoker ! He looks real indeed lol.
Victory. Funny to capture player's expressions. Ca me rappelle des bons moments à Bas en Basset les blais .
Vince, taken by Jose. weirdo :p .
Remember the photo of the small reception at my parent's place? It was in fact a short play with local comedians from La comédie de Saint Etienne. Of course I was assigned to take some photos of it for my father, it sucked. I mean I like taking photos but while some comedians play so close I really didn't feel at ease to shoot them. The only good one I've done, as you can see it was pretty dark and I didn't use flash.
Lil sister. At once she accepted to have a photo ! Usually there's no way with her.

My mother play cello, I've done some photos of it for her (how cute isn't it ?) but I don't really like them. Dunno why.
Self portraiting in a bath room. Don't ask why I did.
Please Help me with such issue! I really wanted to have that scene composed by the grass, the sun and the car on the same frame. How can you deal with the camera to avoid that burnt side of the photo? There were cool tones in the sky instead of that messed up blank you can see on the photo. Putain de contre jour :(
Abandoned caravan. As I said on DA, it's built to be on the road but finish in ruin in some gardens or fields.
That's it for the photos... Will surely post another entry as soon as I'll get the negs of Ilford 400.
Take care

Snap blogger

2008-01-15T10:58:00.000-08:00

Hi,

Been busy for a while with boredom. More seriously, I wanted to post some old stuff I've done for some a long awhile, more recents for others. So let's get back to the past, some shoots are taken with a A75 and others with my canon but with the classic lens 18-55.

What's the fucking aim of posting old work except fullfilling the blog? Well I wanted to show I've not always been doing photos of friends partying in black and white and done 'varied' stuff before.
So on with the photos, I apologise for the lack of logic stories and posts but I've got no general directions for that blog.

Biennale du Design - Saint Etienne
strange micro wave... the worst is that it's supposed to work !
Sainté ... those dull balconeys can become some kind of abstract cubes if you take the time to imagine.

Enjoy the dawning at Lyon, the historic ennemy city of Saint Etienne in soccerEsplanade de sainté, dunno why but I used to like distorsion on the photos. I still do but I actually try to take care about that and avoid it.
street shooting, big up to the painters , real art in the street !
Enjoy a moment at the countryside
Or along that lake.
Or visit the stunning Venice and its canals.
Sky always provides such good color tones after a storm
Back to Saint Etienne, the Espalanade roof top.
Back to Saint Chamond, fucking work place.
I'd rather take a seat in Amsterdam's streets.
And finally see how much time is running out.

RE: 1st post of 2008

2008-01-05T08:20:00.000-08:00

Hi there, I hope everybudy had a nice christ mas and new year.
Concerning myself it was pretty cool! Though I was completly sick, it was still a good end of year.
Good dinners with the family, tasty dishes and eventually some days spent in the Alps so I suppose the fresh air helped me to feel better or maybe it was another stuffs lol.

Photo taken by josé, he bought a 350D aswell so took my lens and managed to shoot well. Anyway he was used to use it before having his own camera.
We couldn't smoke inside but the landscape was pretty nice though the photo is taken by night so unfortunately you can't have a view of it.

I don't remember taking that photo, I think someone took the camera and shot... anyway the smiling girl is Emelyne (dslé si j'écorche le nom).

dead sleeping fake rasta lol
wondering alien/skull
Looks like I'm being judged. a bit underexposed by the way.
Tonton mode tete de mort ahahah
I've got a weird feeling about that photo , the framing is not that good I think, the whole house would have been better but there were cars just in front of it. Maybe I could have used the 10 mm to get the whole landscape.
lol another fake rasta !
My desk , how interesting isn't it ?

That's it for the photos, I tend to think I'm kinda running in circles with my own photography style, I mean I post always the same shit.... Oh well
Ah yes, another thing, I'm really pissed off with the medias speaking a lots of Mr Sarkozy. Do I give a fuck about him and his new wife? no I don't and I think most of the french people are getting bored of it. Sometimes people really scares me cause what tends to be popular is the gossips on Britney, well the uninteresting jet people. Are we blind or cowards to deal with real problems on the earth? there are several even more importants than the new hair cut of any famous bitches of hollywood.lots of questions but no clues about the answers, bah mankind is that weid isn't it?

Cheers

Joyeux noël et happy new year

2007-12-22T06:04:00.000-08:00

Déjà Noel... c'est passé vraiment vite mais on y est ^^
Ptit post avant noël, Juste quelques shoots du centre de sainté. Faire le courses le samedi est galère mais du coup j'ai pu ramener quelques photos prises sur le ptit marché de noel.

La grande roue, je me demande pourquoi j'ai pas fait de la couleur au lieu de la prendre en N&B.tant pis ^^

Some kinda fantasy shoot

prise trop vite.... :(

I liked the colors in that photo, I really wanted to have the shop in the frame.

Respect aux vendeurs dans ces cabanes, ça caille mais ils bossent dans le froid. un ptit snapshot de sainté.
Le vendeur de marrons chauds et de vin chauds.

I had a poker party at Jose's. I paid a bit and lost.

José with his cup and money, we won his day that night.

Jose's cat. She slept very well though we were playing PES 2008 just nearby.

an ashtray made by vince's hands.
Pau
at my parent's place, a small reception.

At work, it looks like i have 2 horns lol.

Do I really need a title for the shit I gonna upload?

2007-12-11T11:45:00.000-08:00

I really got no inspiration about the title and the content I'm going to upload.

Excuse me.
I sometime behave like a real stupid kid.

Random uninteresting shoots :

I got pissed off the trendy good looking faggot self portraits usually promoted on the web, they're always the same. Why should anyone would have to look friendly and handsome? So here I am with MY selfs, merde !
Let's play , (foreground -> background) Pauline, Vincent et Amélie.
Complete boredom and a desesperated dude can produce such artsy stuff, yes !

Sky is funny, each day it ain't the same though most of the days are alike.
End of the short upload. Be right back in few days with more shoots, hopefully I'll have the unique roll I'vre got developped and the shots scanned asap. Can't wait to process the film and see the result.
Take care whoever read that message and have a good time :)

Hélooo

2007-11-27T10:37:00.000-08:00

It's been ages since the last journal/upload. What's going on?
Bah nothing really important, I've been lately weaken because of some troubles in my life and unfortunately they're not finished. In fact I'm very worried lately, can't say why anyway.
So what's new except i'm not being feeling good?
Christmas is almost here, I mean one month earlier you can already see all the decorations and the shops getting ready for the big rush. Business rules . I find even more disgusting in the big retailers like carrefour or any supermarcket, everything is done in a neauseous wish to cheer the consumers up to buy shit they don't need afterall. Besides the commercial side of it, for sure it's a good date to have a good family dinner, yes. Great, I never felt like being very close to many of my relatives (except some good cousins).

So just a preview of christmas spirit... Nobody in the street (dinner time), the photo isn't that great, maybe I'll go back downtown to get some other shots.

Wrong white balance, not enough good exposure , everything is wrong in there. Well I didn't have my 35 mm with me so couldn't open more than 4.5. Maybe more ISO could have corrected the problem of blur but would have been more grainy.

Having fun with my 10 mm, I know it's not for portraitures but who cares ?!

Ok so as I'm sorting out all my photos I shall go on with some old stuff. Family meeting , my aunt and my cousin went home many weeks ago for a lunch. It was still summer :)

My mother's grand sister, well my aunt Marie-France.

Classic. Family lunch = Good cake
Marie - Laure my cousin, she's a very kind lady. my favorite cousin in my mom's family for sure.

Other season, other place. Tonton le patron! (au dép)
Tib qui réfléchissait (?).

Bas en basset, those insect catchers made me think of old good times I was at my cousin's place in the countryside. Very traditional to have one hang in the kitchen. Since mankind has evolved(?), he got rid off the natural things like bees, spiders, flies and has replaced their noise by machine noises and now consider them as dangerous intruders.
Trivial Pursuit... was too drunk to get any good answers, I'm usually quite good for some questions on history but that night I didn't have any fucking clues about the answers, so we lost.
The sexy eyes of the sexy Ced lol. Le plus hot des BCBG ;)
Et le belais !
Clem en train de poser (très sérieusement) :p | earlier in the night
Big seat party ! Tom qui comme d'hab a pas trop eu de chance au big seat essaie tout de meme d'etre attentif

Kro et Amélie qui pose pour une drole de photo, en tout cas bravo Amélie car tout était en manuel et la photo est bien.
After bigseat, Tom who finally doesn't have any luck at this game was resting. Unfortunately for him Kro felt like pissing someone off. classic

Bah judging by Tom's expression, it wasn't too nasty.

Some complete random photos, up there a Porshe Carrera down it, a photo at my place.
I liked the light that came out. I actually try to be more careful about that. well here nothing exceptional , just an essay.

Oké, i've got no more things to show, I still keep on shooting but not doing enough though. In winter i'm a lazy ass ! I've got many probs to fix before thinking of photography, ah yes and My DA account is almost dead. more than 200 deviations to comment, ain't got any valuable photo to upload in there so stay tuned on l-d-k.BlogSpot.com. Will probably update it before leaving to the Alps that is to say the 28th of december. maybe.
Ciao ciao

Not dead not alive though

2007-11-07T14:55:00.000-08:00

Lately it has been some kinda boring, sometimes I really wonder why such periods of emptiness do exist cause it's like wasting time. Well I suppose it's just me being unmotivated to anything and as usual in an expectative estate.

Anyway I didn't open that entry for complaining about life's nonsense but to upload some shoots I've done. I've been playing a lot with my camera lately but unfortunately I'm not really satisfied with the photos of the several parties i've came to. I ain't satisfied at all about the result.
So that's a quick upload so there are not loads of shots as you gonna see (it's 0h00, I finally finished a serie on a family meeting , the photos are craps but I'm sure they gonna like it. I'm being tired)

Last saturday we drank a bottle of famous red wine, some Rothschild Mouton Cadet, a very good wine to my mind. Just a useless foto to immortalize ze bottle.

On the meantime we had a fondue savoyarde, which is a mix of white wine, cheese and other flavors. you have to pick up some hot cheese on some pieces of bread, it's fucking huge but yummy.
damn pervs, 2 innocent toys and it's what came outwith them.
Kro est ce qu'elle te plait celle la? j'en ai plein d'autres de toi mais pas eu la motive de toutes les reprendre pr te les envoyer. Hésites pas a me les demander si tu me vois sur msn blaise ! ;)

Juan , c'est pareil . Hésites pas, par contre elles sont pas encore pretes ^^ A little of self portrait, playing with light and and tried to capture an eyes expression but all I got is a retarded look lol.
That's it for the photos, hopefully the motivation gonna get back so as I can upload some better photography asap. if I 'm not dead before (today I avoided a car crash involving myself and a stupid woman who was trying to do a U turn on a fucking dangerous tiny road) I was nearly to hit her car but I managed to slide on the left and not going outta the road. Been lucky at once ^^
Fucking chick

Random session

2007-10-15T14:45:00.001-07:00

What's up?
Just nothing really exciting, though october is my birth month, I think it's a boring period, dunno why but that 'swhat comes out when I think about it. So I ain't the only one who was born in october, I already went to several birthday parties. they were damn funny, well I won't upload the photos I took there because I was pissed so the majority of them are burred and totally messed up.
Ah, just another thing, when you pick up some photos here to post them in another blog, please leave a link to my fucking blogo! // Pour ceux qui prennent des photos sur mon blog et qui les postent sur d'autres blogs, mettez au moins un lien sur l'adresse d'origine! (http://l-d-k.blogspot.com) sinon je serai obligé de marquer mes photos.

Lately I 've been given a Pentax and I bought a lens on it (a 55mm f1.8/22), so I'm beginning with some film photography which is quite motivating I think. Bah I'll check the first results when I'll be processing the only roll I'll have.
No photomanipulation about that one, just the reflection of the artificial lake.
Some random shots taken during a photo session nearby Saint Etienne, fortunately the weather was quite good so twas cool having a walk in the countryside.

Francois, taking a huge photo with his 'chambre' (don't have a clue about the right translation) he was the only one who came for the photo session. Photograph at work
That's the top of the dam, we had to begin by the bottom which exhausted me as fuck because those stairs are fucking rude.

Wild guys in Bas en Basset

2007-09-24T05:24:00.000-07:00

Y'a je sais plus combien de semaines de ça on est aller prendre l'air a la campagne a Bas en basset, un bled de la Haute Loire. Faut croire que l'air de la campagne rend jovial car les photos et les souvenirs qui s'y rattachent me font actuellement sourire :p
Courses à la dernière minute, notre spécialité ;)

Tom et le Tib en train d'observer le 10mm, déformation garantie
Pareil avec ma gueule lol
Pépère la Kro
ahahah le butcher

Un blais dangereux avec une hache de blais

lol cette foto m'évoque la vision qu'on peut avoir quand on est bleu, vraiment bleu

les deux blais
Dans le garage y'avait des tas de jouets, du coup il en fallait pas plus pour une petite scène ! lol
le garage en question

1 brochette de blais qui posent Kro qui avait trouvé la parade au froid

Je pensais l'avoir foiré mais suis pas trop mécontent du résultat

Clem et Amélie, un vrai blais et une vraie blaise ;)
le big sit (some alcoholic games)

1 Foto d'Amélie, franchement bien ! La chasse au lapins à la hache a 5h du mat

Du coup il a ensuite trouvé d'autres animaux lol

Le vince, ca fait bien rustique quand même lol

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2007-09-18T11:00:00.001-07:00

Here's the following of my previous post. I'm getting very late with editing photos on the computer, well I took way too much useless photos at parties...
Anyway I'm quite satisfied with that blog, I mean I've done it to share images I wouldn't upload on DA, to feature links on other websites and eventually it 's getting more and more completed. Though there are no general defined aims for that blog, I noticed I shot more and more portraits. Next step will be some essays at street shooting, more openess on my environnement. ok so let's finish with that saturday night spent on playing card games, smoking and drinking.

Late at night we were visited by Cheeb and his gf, I think this is a portrait taken by José his brother, good angle mate ;)

Nathan was there too
lol he's got a smile on his face, maybe a sign of a good hand ?

La Delf :)
José et Mélanie ou plutot Mélanie et José
Playing at le trou du cul (we can translate it by asshole game), the aim is to get rid off your cards as quick as possible, there are turns to do that, the one who still have cards is the asshole. I don't remember who got that hand but it was easy for him to be president ;)
Then we started playing poker, not loads of money at the beginning because lots of players. I ran out of luck that night and lost the joints I played instead of money lol.
Big Blind , got richer than me grrrr

Gwen Aka Twenty won most of the male players on the table, at the very end she was near to win the whole money + my joint but she finally lost in front of the experience of her opponent
Here's Twenty , concentrated on the game . Serious gaming ;)
Tried to capture some player's faces but was too much pissed so I didn't catch the good moments, not really satisfied how they turned out.

Vince, I''m really happy with that one, I didn't expected such contrast between his face and his cig. Though we were not playing seriously he's got a very serious poker face look indeedWhile playing we drank some fresh Get 27, always a great chill out after having drinking bottles of whisky...

But for some of us it was harmful, especially for the blue eyes of josé ahah
Then the survivors started to be hungry, we did a small order for the people who wanted to get some fast food shit. The paper we used made me laugh, it just looks like nothing! After the chicken dips I went to bed because too much stoned and drunk, it was 5:00 am past.

Lorent's Daily fucKing routine

2007-09-11T10:54:00.000-07:00

Okay so here I am again posting some photos, I haven't been planning anything since I went back from holidays neither thinking about any photographic project shits. Bah getting back at the office is a pain in the ass, so I suppose I'm kinda back on a lazy mood.

Anyway, That here are some digital shots from my last saturday, nothing special just tried to capture some friends having good time together.

Ahah it looks like Alban is in jail ! Photo taken by Juani

Juani playing football made in Mexico.

Our national brasilian/african/swedish soccer player, Ced :D

Et lui !?lol

Delphine, those photos were taken by Kro, I think she did a good job with the automatic mod of the 350D, I didn't expected such photos. Post edition by myself anyway.

Yes tonton !

Nice combo lol .I mean the fellas on the photos above are the brothers and the brother in law I didn't plan to put them together lol.

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I think I'll upload the other photos another evening, since I don't feel like spending hours to finish editing and uploading them whereas I could be outside. Next episode of that long night in my next upload ;)

Pineda Puta !

2007-08-21T11:36:00.000-07:00

Hi again, ok so as an intro , I 'd like to show you the new room I've got, a bit messy but way more clean than the previous one. Still messy i must admit but I didn't feel like sorting out all the mess that I've done, I 'm too lazy.

My PC with that usb/wi fi key shit, as I'm writing this I got disconnected 4 times, let's be brave and continue the entry .
Ok as you might know I've been to Salou (well La Pineda) in Spain for holidays, I came back with some shots but I didn't really do loads of photos. I'll show you my selection :

The "team a poil", we were waiting the so welcoming spanish dudes to accept us for a rent of 2 weeks in a camping in la Pineda. Those fuckers let us wait for the whole morning and asked a loads of money for a fucking rent (we drove all night long to get in there, and we hadn't had any breakfast). So we look a bit discouraged by the beginning, but the team a poil overcomes every problems ;)

The campement lol
Oasis, Redbull and some smoke stuff for chilling out the afternoon
A small stock of alcohol

some sun bathsSome hours to rest a bit
Vince being concentrated at the game

We organized shared apéro with the neigbours , some nice guys from Orleans. In the car, there were a tv, a PS2, some sound stuff, cool :)
Some postcard . The enter of the beach (well one of them)

One afternoon, there was a fire in the industrial area just nearby. At that moment I realized it was not so far away from the fucking camping, the landscapes there was crap. But we had fun

Lucky day for José, he won a free Nestea al limon and the taxi seemed to react when he was walking around lol.

I remember when I took that photo, it was a damn hot afternoon and we stopped to have a cocktail. Best ever blue lagoon, well as you can see on that photo. While coming back from the beach, it's always good to have a Nestea al limon, always .

This pix was taken by José , he delt very well with the camera .
At the damn restaurant, we have waited for hours, to have a cook we could expect in what we call here : cafeteria
Le Ziz!
I found out such beast while coming back from the restaurant lol. nice isn't it?

Dear diary

2007-08-18T11:51:00.000-07:00

Sometimes I really tend to think nobody have a look at that page so what's the use, I dunno, I still keep uploading photos I shoot randomly. My holidays in Spain were short but it was cool there, lots of sun, parties etc.
But it was not the point of this blog entry, as I was browsing my recent photos in a bored mood , I've decided to upload some portraits.

Nathan was trying to having a suitable pose that's why he 's got that weird expression. Or maybe he was not ease at ease in front of the camera

Nathalie aka Yolande a future german teacher, this shot was done by chance (I was trying to take back my lighter and I took the photo by surprise, the angle is completely missed but I like how the whole photo turned out.)
Kro being serious
José being sad/serious too .

Enfin un peu de repos

2007-07-29T08:44:00.000-07:00

Pas grand chose à dire si ce n'est que c'est le début des vacances ^^
Quelques petit shoots au passage :

Le Corbusier

2007-07-17T13:04:00.001-07:00

Lately i've been to Firminy to visit the Church there, it was built by Le Corbusier, a famous architect. I've had heard that the church was very particular so I decided to have a drive to it and to have a lil photo session there.
'The' church, it looked very weird to me but a very interesting structure

These fotos were taken in la maison de la culture, a building also designed by le Corbusier
He dealt very well with the light, it adds a lot to the atmosphere of the church, very peaceful thanks to the soft light, magic thanks to the different hole of light and very innovative in the way of designing how the people seat (I mean the people are just above the priest and the chairs are placed in a kinda round)

Very special as I said, I plan to visit other structures like this , just have to find them ;)

A saturday in France

2007-06-28T12:40:00.000-07:00

I keep going on shooting though I don't go out for any special sessions. bah some photos of saturday, spent on playing poker.
I took the 10 mm to shoot, I don't know why I did...

1 foto de toi José, nickel ! :p
Playing poker and having a drink.

Le ptit de bonne nuit

"C'est plus la fête de la musique! c'est la fête des ivrognes"

2007-06-22T08:13:00.000-07:00

Ok new entry for an event typically french, la fête de la musique ! (don't laugh at my translation i don't have any clue about the translation in english so i would call that : the music party)
La fete de la musique is an event for the 1st day of the summer, we (the french) celebrate music. Generally each cities organize it, and tht evening many local bands play in the street.
It's an important event in France.

ah i was about to forget : my title is a quote i heard from a mother with her lil child while walking in the crowded street, she was saying : look at that , it's not anymore a celebration of music but alcoholic party !

the evening began (for me ) with an appointement at a restaurant in the most famous pedestrian street of saint etienne.we had some burgers, meets,french fries, beer, wine , whisky.

I ain't good at taking foto groups , i don't really like doing it either.bah just to give you an idea of what it is to eat in a crowded street.
Hey look at my cheque (well the cheque is outta focus)
Tib was embarrassed with many glasses , he ended up with 5 just for him.
My neigbour tonton, a bit high and in a very good mood for partying .

here, we were moving to the shop of one of my neigbours (max créations) where there was an electro party organized. a quick posed shot.
The max creation shop, well a part of it.

We met there lots of people from my hometown , here you can see Loul. He wanted me to take the pix a bit further because of his eyes ahaha.

The bar where we bought loads of beers, get 27 , whisky. another style but still with drunk people inside.

i got my 35mm new lens so decided to post some random shots

2007-06-18T12:28:00.000-07:00

ahahah each time i wanna test a thing on my camera the first cobaye is my poor sister, here she was holding her arm to stop me from shooting her. bah i got a quite good shot indeed. very spontaneous shit
a sunday in France, some old people who were going for the elections. I suppose they voted for the UMP , most of them did... I might be wrong anyway.
a quick shot afer having voted, i joined her and another mate at the top of a hill, they were smoking and chilling.
sooo here's the top of the hill, full of fields and very restful especially for getting high. a very quiet afternoon, i would have go on shooting if the battery of the damn 350D hadn't let me down.

Spring mood

2007-04-16T06:38:00.000-07:00

Calming down and chilling in the countryside.

Some architecture stuff + random portraits

2007-03-13T12:13:00.000-07:00

Ahaha Clément one of my closest mate . Cool afternoon spent on drinking beers and playing pool

Old Foto, taken in december ( there were still the christmas decorations), some of my mates playing soccer table .

For these shoots, I went back in Saint-Etienne, into that strange building to test my 10/20 mm lens, so here are a shoot from downstair and upstair.

These fotos were taken in Saint Chamond (France), I tended to consider that city the worst city I knew , I mean it's all grey, not cleaned and very depressive . But it has some charms, I didn't know those streets and was surprised by that (not so far from where i work)

Amsterdam session

2007-03-09T01:27:00.000-08:00

Welcome to my bloggo ,

I openedthis blog to upload some photos i wouldn't edit on my DA account. So here, you may find more varied works, unedited photos, more things !
I begin with the dutch session, I went there for almost one week (I finally had some holidays) I really needed to go away from where I live at this time so I've decided to visit that city to do some drug tourism, t'was fun . This photo was taken at the arrival at the central station, you just exit from the train station and you already have a good view of what Amsterdam is
I noticed that booking a room with a lot of advance, if you don't wanna pay a fucking price for a night
This was the church in front of my hotel, a bench of young dutch were drinking and smoking in front of it.

Dunno why I didn't take much shoots of the bicycles , there were plenty of them in the streets, it's quite surprising to see so much people riding in the street with old bicycles.

Some fucking pigeons, there were plenty of them there, I was pretty stoned when i took the shot, saw them and decided why not taking a photo of them lol.
These photos were taken in the Dam Square (I think it's the name, ain't sure though...) a big square/plaza where there were some interesting buildings with nice architecture stuff.

I was also surprised by the fact the street has lots of trees, I dunno if that photo conveys they idea, some streets were really green . Some shoots of the canals surrounding the city, they are very quiet streets for some of them where you can sit down on a bench and enjoy some stuff made in amsterdam without being annoyed by durg dealers nor cops , it was really cool there.
I've met a cool austrian girl named Carmen (sh*t I forgot her photo) who was also visiting the city by herself, then we had a walk along the streets together , and we found out these statues in a square, lots of tourists were taking photographs of them . I managed to get one shoot without the hord of tourists on it . I would call it 'the commander' .
This was an abandoned sofa in a backyard, I couldn't shoot the whole thing because an ughly scooter was in front of it.

A strange mixture of architecture style. I shall end with one my favorite photo (though the quality of it sucks), the weater the last days was awful, it was like rain/sunshine/rain/wind/rain/rain. As I was coming back to my hotel, it began to rain hard very suddenly, everybody was running to find shelters and on the other side of the side walk i saw that lady who was waiting for the rain to calm down. the tiny shelter she found was funny, anyway i took the photo too fast so it's a bit blurred :(