Sorry to have y’all waiting so long for a bit of news but I’ve been kind of busy. I haven’t even had a chance to show you some images of a short trip we took to the south of France featuring sun, sea, snow, castles, snakes and scorpions. What have I been busy with? An architectural shoot of the Collège néerlandais, the only building of Dutch architect Dudok in France. It dearly needs to be renovated and to raise funds, you need images: they tell a better story than thousand words…

An empty chair in the Tuileries during the last days of autumn. Last year I would have sat there with a book, this year I’ve been postprocessing and keywording images for the PhotoShelter Collection, the new stock agency I’ve mentioned. Some 200 images of mine, including this one, are on sale now and can be found at my PhotoShelter gallery (edit Nov. 2008: link removed, no longer working due to the demise of the PhotoShelter Collection). I’ve asked that chair on a date for next autumn though and she accepted.

Yet another photo for the weekly assignment competition on fredmiranda.com, a webforum that I’ve mentioned earlier. The theme for this week’s assignment was “low perspective”. Crouching at the base of the Eiffel Tower with a wide-angle lens provided me with just the picture I needed to win the first place.