Pictures from my travels in Japan and around the World.
On holidays in Hokkaido, I wanted to travel light so decided to leave the RF50mm/f1.2L at home and took a much lighter RF50mm/f1.8 with me. Of course, it’s nowhere as good as the 1.2 but is the L version ten times as good (as it roughly costs 10 times as much). Not sure… I hope…
Having fun with the 55-200mm in Naeba.
Quite a lot of snow to handle that morning in Naeba. The little X-T2 held the cold well.
Les Braves is a war memorial that is located on the shores of Omaha Beach in the village of St. Laurent-sur-Mer in Normandy, France and commemorates the fallen American soldiers, of World War ll who have lost their lives on the beaches of Normandy, June 6th 1944. The memorial represents three elements: The Wings of…
Fishing boat going out to sea and facing strong waves in Port-en-Bessin. Yes, you’ll have to bear with me for a few posts, I need to share some photos from my winter break back in Normandy :)
In addition to the uncomfortable pillow, the one thing I do not like that much is the traditional Japanese breakfast we always get in a Ryokan. Just too much of the salty stuff and not enough of the sweet one. Not to mention the lack of coffee.
Once a year, a ryokan experience is for me frequent enough as I have problems sleeping with the traditional pillow they usually provide: too hard for me.
Japanese countryside: where a hotel room is far bigger than most apartments in Tokyo!
The Ryokan we stayed at was full of old stuff gathered from the countryside: here an old Daruma doll. The girls were spooked!
If you come from Europe (like me), you hear forest and you think about lovely trails, relaxing walks for the weekend, picking up mushrooms in autumn, playing under the shadow in summer. When I was a kid we used to go the nearby forest, park the car and just wander around, without realizing that much…