Wallpapers
Most people come on my site attracted by the free background desktop picture, also known as wallpapers... I have lots of them that I've added over the years, mainly featuring Antarctic coast , Antarctic plateau , mountain climbing , rock climbing , USA climbing , nature or various other pictures . You can see a random sample on the right.
Gallery
There's a gallery of vertical images which can also be used as wallpaper if you have a vertical screen (such as an iPhone).
A gallery of black & white images with some tips on B&W photography.
From the smallest macrophotography to the
Our new Grenoble apartment has a great view on thunderstorms and ensuing lightning .
And finally a bunch of images that didn't fit anywhere else, like lensless wine pictures or unclassable pictures .
Panorama
On two pages I gathered all the horizontal and Vertical panoramic pictures that you can see around my site. I have written a program that 'warps ' pictures in order to transform them into panorama. It's freeware and here's a tutorial for it.
And here's a list of posters , mostly B&W and panoramic, currently on sale in a store in Briançon. I'm not selling them online but you are certainly welcome to take a look at them.
Besides panoramas, there are other ways to combine images in order to extend the capabilities of photographic equipment.
Copyright and $$$
I'm sure you came here to read all about my fascinating copyright information . On the same page, you will also find a list of my public slide shows as well as some contact information should you wish to buy some pictures.
If you want to use or purchase some of my pictures, first make sure they are not placed in a photographic agency , in which case you should contact them , not me.
For a list of pictures available for sale , take a look at the
And if you just want to support my site, look at my money page .
Equipment
My old interest in photography has been rekindled in 2000 by the loss of most of my photographic equipment in the infamous car accident that finished off our honeymoon . I could have decided to delay indefinitely the acquisition of a new camera, instead I bought two ! A Nikon F100 and a Ricoh GR21. More recently I started late on the digital wave with the Ricoh GRD and the Fuji S5 pro . On that same page you'll find some comments about other photographic gear that passed through my hands. And I also have some X-ray advice for travelers.
Getting into digital photography can be confusing for a traditional film user like myself, so I wrote down some basic workflows to get the most out of scanned images or digital cameras, for which I've also tested some RAW file processing softwares .
Climbing
climbing , so I have put up some information about taking pictures while climbing and how I prepared the pictures for this site.
Besides climbing, there are also some images of base jumping and some images I found while climbing.
Fisheye
fisheye lens and was surprised by the many different things you can do with it. So I wrote a program to turn the resulting round images into fake rectilinear images or half-spherical panoramas, a variant of which can generate funky 360° fisheye images .
Misc
3D pictures using the anaglyphic method. It needs cyan/red glasses but is easy to use.
I purchased a telescope in 2004, but it has seen little use. I only have a few astrophographies online .
