I love the city, I have always lived in Paris, I like street scenes, architecture , street portraits , urban atmosphere , with its smells , lights and hectic life

and at the risk to shock some people,I have to say that nature is not my cup of tea (!) but I am a great lover of the sea,(Atlantic Ocean ) and mountains

I like the landscapes , seascapes , mountainscapes in monochrome

"Une photographie, c'est un fragment de temps qui ne reviendra pas."

Martine Franck ( † 16/08/2012 - RIP).// Martine Franck at Magnum

"La photographie peut atteindre l'éternité par l'instant..."

Henri Cartier Bresson

La photographie est une représentation de la réalité, elle n'est pas la réalité

"J'interprète ce que je ressens à un moment donné. Pas ce que je vois, mais ce que je ressens."- André Kertész

About B&W

"Black and white are the colours of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected. "

Robert Frank

« Il me semble que dans la photographie, la couleur est un élément distrayant. On a tendance à la regarder en oubliant ce qu’il y a dans l’image, en ne cherchant pas à en percer le contenu. Au contraire, celui qui regarde une photographie en noir et blanc l’approfondit davantage. »

It seems to me that in photography, colour is an element that distracts attention We tend to only look at it and to forget what is in the picture, not trying to decipher its contents. On the contrary, one who looks at a photograph in black and white deepens it better

Gianni Berengo Gardin

some quotes about passion , music, cats , loneliness

La passion est encore ce qui aide le mieux à vivre....de Zola

Passion is still what helps the best to live

Sans la musique la vie serait une erreur.....de Nietzsche

Without music, life would be a mistake

Il vaut mieux se perdre dans sa passion que perdre sa passion.

Saint Augustin (Augustin d'Hippone (354-430)

It is better to be lost in one's passion than to lose one's passion

Saint Augustine

Il y a deux moyens d'oublier les tracas de la vie : la musique et les chats.

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats

Albert Schweitzer

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone

Orson Welles

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# 2010 March 26 First upload

# 2010 March 31 Pro account

.je prends mon compte PRO et décide de m'installer sur Flickr !!! J'ai commencé à poster le 26 mars

J'ai deux passions:la musique, avant tout ( playing the piano )

et la photo que je considère plutôt comme un hobby créatif et un moyen d'expression & de partage

Voilà:j'aime la musique,la photo,les chats,les citations !!!!......

les relations humaines........

Et tant d'autres choses encore!

# 31 juillet 2010.. 4 mois plus tard.........Je complète

Parmi ce "Et tant d'autres choses encore" il y a avant tout,le VOYAGE . Ce virus attrapé très jeune a toujours été essentiel pour moi .

Je suis une passionnée d'Asie et j'ai eu la chance de pouvoir la découvrir à maintes reprises , le plus possible "hors des sentiers battus"

C'est cette passion là , avec ses projets et ses souvenirs qui m'a le mieux aider à VIVRE , avec le piano , bien sûr , mon éternel refuge ...

Refusant la facilité,j'ai préféré l"aventure.

Aller à la découverte d'autres cultures m'a peut-être appris la tolérance ?........

J'ai beaucoup d'archives argentiques et je compte poster QUELQUES photos quand je les aurai scannées

# November 2014

Currently , more or less disabled ,this should never be better

month by month, I'm losing some mobility

no longer able to walk long ,so, to take lots of pictures ....and even less to travel :(

But I try to remain positive.Time has come to be interested in scanning my archives (if I can no longer travel, I can relive my travels through my photos) and doing things for which I thought I still had ample time

Such is life

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about contacts

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I'm busy (and slow) ,my private life is a priority , so I can't spend much time online and I can't follow too many contacts.

I prefer to forge a real friendship with a few contacts that I get to know' through their works

My contacts list is short .So I can't add you just because you did this with me

I do apologize for this

Nevertheless , when you comment on my pictures,I'll try to reciprocate

And from time to time ,I review my list of contacts ,so I can add new contacts

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Thank you for understanding my reasons

# if you are a "contacts collector",(I 've already seen several tens of thousands up to over 100,000) LoL!!!

(strange behavior, similar to spam,for trying to get Explore)

# if your pictures are never commented (and / or faved) by any contact of yours but ONLY in groups...that means ...no reciprocity .

I don't add you as a contact ...

# if you regularly visit my stream - I WILL reciprocate

# I will NOT add you as a contact if you never Fave a single of my photos

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THANK YOU FOR YOUR KIND VISIT

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B&W mosaic 1

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Groups

For me photography and Flickr don't mean ,having to count awards in many multi-levels group , (where finally we see the same pictures everywhere !! Need variety and wonder !

Lack of time or patience , I can't

So I don't like to post into these groups , and I give up posting into most of them , unless the admins count for us (!!! Lol :) , as they do in my favourite groups

In opposition ; I have always loved and I still love contests

It also requires a little time, but I prefer this .....