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This photo (120 x 80 cm) is located at Place des Marronniers.
Beauty of form, perfection of the spiral. Movement in stillness that attracts and fascinates. A tiny swirl, carrying the cyclamen seed.
What a strategy to reproduce! This cyclamen seed will be placed delicately on the ground by its spiral. This is how the shy autumn cyclamen multiplies.
100 mm macro – f/2,8 – 1/160 s – 160 ISO
This photo (120 x 80 cm) is located at Place des Marroniers.
This April morning begins under the sign of whiteness, in the chateau orchard in full bloom. I have changed scale to focus on the pearls of dew that light up this dandelion ready to scatter its seeds.
Assemblage de mise au point réalisé à partir de 10 photographies.
60 mm macro – f/5,6 – 1/400s – 200 ISO
This photo (120 x 80 cm) is located at Place des Marroniers.
The marsh reeds cast their reflections in the still waters. The silence, barely disturbed by the croaking of frogs, is conducive to meditation. The atmosphere is light, like this fragile feather suspended in a halo of light. Beyond daydreaming, the chateau's moat is a place of biodiversity where it is not uncommon to surprise a heron or a fox in search of food. The vegetation is lush, and the young willows constitute a prime stopover for bird populations.
165 mm – f/16 – 1/320 s – 100 ISO
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Chiaroscuro in the chateau moat. The marsh reeds cast their reflections in the still waters. The silence, barely disturbed by the croaking of frogs, is conducive to meditation. The atmosphere is light like this fragile feather suspended in a halo of light.
This photo (120 x 80 cm) is located at Place des Marroniers.
The Dive du Nord is one of the canals created in France to supply cities with agricultural products from the countryside, , or even to trade with foreign countries. The Dive canal network, which dates back to the 18th and 19th centuries, is 28 kilometers long between Vienne and Deux-Sèvres. Its aim was to transport cereals and wine to the Loire, via Thouet. Its banks, with their rich riparian forest, are places for walks and a true paradise for insects.
105 mm – f/20 – 1/320 s – 6400 ISO
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Banks of the Dive, in Pas-de-Jeu, a league from Oiron. The grass bows its head, forming a bishop's crozier, to accommodate a garden spider and its web. The destinies of animal and plant are united in a fragile communion with mystical overtones.
This photo (120 x 80 cm) is located at Place des Marroniers.
The banks of the Dive to the north-east of Oiron, on the borders of Vienne, are home to a multiplicity of insects. Apart from the numerous odonates, from the dragonfly to the damselfly, going round a bush we come acrossdifferent species of spiders like this wasp spider. With its mix of patterns and colors, this spider can deceive its potential prey, but that is not enough to catch them. It adds real know-how to weave a canvas, a true architectural masterpiece.
105 mm macro – f/8 – 1/640 s – 250 ISO
This photo (120 x 80 cm) is located at Place des Marroniers.
We still call him ‘the devil’ or ‘looking for noon’. The European firebug, or ‘gendarme’ in French (Pyrrhocorisapterus), is clearly identifiable by the African mask on its back, but is still just a bug. Very gregarious, it moves on trunks in large groups.
100 mm macro – f/8 – 1/40 s – 800 ISO
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In the bark folds, a strange parade takes place. A troop of gendarmes in single file are carrying out an inspection there. Are they looking for the high spot that they enjoy, or the eggs of other insects to feast on?
This photo (120 x 80 cm) is located at Place des Marroniers.
In the blink of an eye, one of the four great cedars of the Atlas became mischievous. Venerable and majestic, it shows its shade and invites our senses to contemplation.
The Oiron chateau park has four Atlas cedars, 30 meters high. The planting of these majestic trees dates back to the 1880s and is due to the Fournier de Boisairault family.
Two other cedars, although younger, planted in the 1940s or 1950s, were victims of the 1999 storm.
150 mm – f/4 – 1/320 s – 320 ISO
This photo (115 x 172 cm) is located at 2, rue Madame de Montespan
The chateau’s windows of the and their reflections inspired this composition which features the trees of the park. As if observed through a window, their silhouettes unfold in a changing panorama with the seasons.
Assemblage of 6 photographs made using mirrors and colored glasses
105 mm macro – f/5 à f/6,3 – 100 à 320 ISO.
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From the windows of the chateau, a wide variety of plants can be seen, dominated by large trees with majestic branches which lend themselves to a dreamlike gaze through the seasons.
This photo (150 x 60 cm) is located at impasse de la Grillère.
This tree is so twisted that it inspires pain. From its cracked trunk, branches improbably emerge, , and end up forming knots with in tears at the end.
If the weeping Japanese pagoda trees in our parks do indeed come from Japan, they would only have been introduced there a little over a thousand years ago, but would have originated in central China and Korea. In the 18th century we liked to call all trees and plants from the Far East “japonica”.
24 mm – f/9 – 1/30 s – 2500 ISO
This photo (150 x 60 cm) is located at impasse de la Grillère.
The weeping Japanese pagoda tree is one of the botanical curiosities of the chateau’s park. The Japanese pagoda tree became fashionable. It adorned parks and walks in Paris, and spread throughout the south of France.
105 mm macro – f/18 – 1/40 s – 2000 ISO
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A sudden fleeting moment, the appearance of the sun through the magnificent crooked branches of the weeping Japanese sophora.