Le Bourget Air Show 2009

On June 20th I went near to my job to take planes on pictures.
Every 2 years in France an international air show takes place at "Le Bourget" 's airport.

This year was the 48th and was time to celebrate it's 100years.
For an anniversary that important, I must say I was a little bit disapointed; maybe I expected too much or I was demanding for more sensational planes to see.

B25 Mitchell / P51D Mustang


Aermacchi M-346 / EF2000 Typhoon


Sukhoi Superjet 100 / C27J Spartan


F16 Fighting Falcon


Triptych F16 (almost stitched pics)


F16 about to land


FA/18F Super Hornet / Tigre


2 Heli came from nowhere



P.A.F. (French Acrobatic Patrol) preparing to fly


Very old planes flew too but as I didn't pay a ticket to enter I was very far away from the place they have flown to take the picture.

Bleriot XI /OV 10 Bonco


Rafale



speedy plane Take off / P.A.F. take off


P.A.F.'s Formations






Alpha Jet


Mirage III / Junker 52


PBY-S Catalina / B17 G Flying Fortress


Zoom on B17 G Flying Fortress's logo


Stitched picures:
PBY-S Catalina (3pics)


A380 (3pics)


Every pictures have been taken with a Nikon D70s+18-200mm lens with a polarizing filter on it.

As you may have seen on the pictures, the weather was not invited in the party... that's shame when you know the entire week was beautiful!
I was with a friend and his father, we laughed and drank to near death. ^^
Fortunately, you cannot see any of the beer we had during the show... I, this time, learned how to drink and shoot at the same time. ^^

Next time I'll try to upload some portraits...

Cherry Blossom & Sensei (お花見)

Hi! First I'd like to thank everyone for following my "empty blog".

Lately I'm pretty busy learning many things (Softwares & more) in my job too it's crazy like hell how many things we gotta do.
I didn't have many time to take pictures but I did sometimes.
What I'm about to show you today was shot on March-April when the Cherry tree started to bloom.
Well, I went to the "Parc de Sceaux" where many Japanese people come every year to celebrate Hanami (花見) litteraly "Flower Viewing"
I have to say I went there 3 times this year;
-the first time no flower to take on picture... damn I'm too early
-the second time only few people, rainy, crappy flowers...
-the 3rd was the good one!

Yeah!! I met after 4years my Japanese Teacher "Yoshie N. Sensei" which is THE teacher who gave me the will, she motivated me and helped me to go further.
I love her very much, and would like to thank her once again here:
心から有り難うございます！

Some other teachers was there too but I mainly spoke with Yoshie Sensei and took many pictures.

Kids Playin' with a Cherry tree (Bronica-S2A- 75mm f:5,6+ Ektachrome 100+)

I took with me some reversal films to do some cross process again, but this time it doesn't came out the way I wanted...
Maybe I put a different reversal film in my camera from what I put in Spain so the colors were damn red this time...
Want an example? Here, take a look at this picture of me my mother took.
(Nikon-F4- 85mm f:4 + Velvia 100F)


When you see this kind of result, the only word that may come in your mind is: "Fucked!"
So I had to try something on those pics. Because the whole sets was like this...
Here is what I could get in the end without screwing up all the pictures:
(Nikon-F4- 85mm + 35-70mm + 50mm + Velvia 100F)



The picture in the middle is dedicated to my friend Tom


I also made some panoramas
(Nikon-F4 50mm + Velvia 100F)
2 stitched pics/ 5 stitched pics/ 3 stitched pics





Then I made some with an other camera:
(Nikon D70s + 18-200mm)
24 stitched pics / 29 stitched pics



142 stitched pics / 72 stitched pics



Before I left the place/ in the train station:
12 stitched pics / 18 stitched pics



It was very pleasant to talk with my Sensei after so many years, play with her kids, take pictures and talk about camera with some students.

Next time, I'll upload pictures I took at "Le Bourget" air Show.

Ham[buger] Ham[let] Ham[mer] Ham[mam]?

Sometimes crazy things happen.

This one is awesome

If you wanna know more about MC Hammer check this

Spain

A Month ago I went to Spain only for a weekend. I founded my plane, train, hotel 12hours before the departure ^^

It was full of fun to go there after almost 20 years!
By the way, even if I learned Spanish in junior high school I now just can't speak Spanish at all...
...Good challenge!

For the next pictures, I must tell you that I tried for the first time a cross process on my films.

So it's normal if the result is a little bit red.

During my almost 3 days I went to Madrid and Barcelona.

I first came on a Friday to Madrid

Ohhhh my! 23°C and sunny when in Paris it was only 12°C and rainy....

I didn't had any guide book, any map, nothing so I walked to find something interesting to take the picture but nothing really kept my attention in Madrid.

However at night, looking for a restaurant, I took some pictures...

☝The restaurant I went to was near the panorama above☝

a paella I never ate before "Arroz Negro" (yes it would have been black with true colors)

The day after I arrived I went to pass my next couple of days in Barcelona.

Going to the Train station I thought: it's like the Musée d' Orsay!

I had my train by CHANCE!! 1minute later and it was over...

During the travel to Barcelona a 2years old boy couldn't stop starring a me. / Landscape I kinda like.

In the super express I also watched a movie (all in spanish) hopefully I've already watched it in English so it wasn't that much disturbing.

I finally made it to my hotel then walked and visit like the tourist I was.

As usual, playin' with mirrors in the Hotel / A manifestation

After I used all my reversible films, I wanted to shoot so many pictures I had to buy some negative colors.

Sagrada familia is really really really (I mean it) impressive.

The Panoramas are odd... No digital shots so it's difficult to assemble few shots only.

Some hours before I take the plane back to Paris, wandering in Barcelona

Noooo I don't wanna go back to work, Paris, cold...

It was a very pleasant weekend, I met my girlfriend after 5 month appart, shot more than a hundred pictures, ate and drank like a black hole...

Reheal yaself, go to the House of (S)pain.

I came to get down, I came to get down

So get out your seats and jump around, jump around! Jump around! Jump around!

Jump up jump up and get down! Jump Jump Jump Jump Jump...

Ohhh yeaah!

I now would like to go to Germany... don't have much time but, one day I'll go!