Valère de Lionsac

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Some irony – but gentle and veiled. And I craft pictures.

My open sketchbook on an outside pub's table, with some beers and the unavoidable canal in the background. Digital color photograph.
A view of the low mountains in the Cévennes region in France, from prickly vegetation in the foreground to the hazy horizon with fair weather clouds. Digitally toned black and white film photograph.
A spectator in front of Léon Frédéric's triptych "Le ruisseau" (The Brook), Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique in Brussels. Digitally toned black and white film photograph.
A wheelbarrow with dirt and shovel in front of a typical Venetian brick wall with peeling music poster, all under grazing sunlight. Digitally split-toned black and white film photograph.
Istanbul construction site. The same requirements can be met very differently, depending on the region. Here wood is used for the scaffolding and plant-fiber mats to prevent access to the site. Digitally toned black and white film photograph.
Tile-covered walls to fight off extremely harsh winter weather. Swiss Jura, stitched vertorama. Digital color photograph.
Undeterred by the bustle around her an Italian lady reads some guide (?) in Milan's train station. Digitally toned black and white film photograph.
City night scene: lights reflected on the wet cobblestones of a small square, with a solitary lit window and a black silhouette of a passerby in the background. Digital color photograph, non-photorealistic rendering.
Front view of a vintage Citroën Traction Avant, in light mat livery and not the usual shiny black. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citro%C3%ABn_Traction_Avant
A small road, wet from the rain, runs past a cottage and a roofless ruin, leading towards the sea in the background. Color negative film photograph.
If Bluesky generates a low-rez version, Wikipedia has it in gorgeous detail. 😉
A costumed character walking down a Venetian alley during Carnival. Frontal shot with flash and long exposure. Digitally split-toned black and white film photograph.
Entrance to a vintage farm in Poland, with a heavily weathered thatched roof. Digitally split-toned black and white film photograph.
A broad butterbur leaf covered in fallen pine needles makes for a pleasant contrast of geometries and colors. Digital color photograph.
Ginger tabby cat in black and white, sleeping on a couch. Black and white digital photograph.
Contrasting natural structures of light, smooth grass and dark, rough bark in a wood in French Provence. Digitally toned medium format black and white film photograph.
Decaying armchair left in one of Venice's squares, near a well. Digitally toned black and white film photograph.
Construction site. The phase between destruction and reconstruction always presents interesting surfaces, geometries, structures, materials, somewhere between order and chaos, far away from the polished end result. Digitally toned black and white film photograph.
Moist early September day at the pond, with raindrops clouding its surface and autumn colors starting to shine through. Digital color photograph.
Candid portrait of a young, somewhat meditative lady standing in one of Venice's squares. Digitally toned black and white film photograph.
Disgusting litter from picnickers and campers, soiling the very place they enjoy. I don't know what the little building once was, perhaps for cows in the summer. Digitally toned medium format black and white film photograph.
Contrasting forms of flowering plant foliage and the much more ancient horsetails. Digitally toned black and white film photograph.
Gaumont movie theater in Saint-Étienne with movie posters from 1984, passersby in period garb and an iconic 2CV. The building has since been renovated, giving it a strange Mussolini-era look, but the theater remains. Digitally toned black and white film photograph.
Children's carrousel in a park, featuring a pop-cultural icon: a dinosaur. Digital color photograph.
Young lady in white dress and sunglasses, carrying a jacket and a plastic shopping bag. Busy commercial street as background. Digitally toned black and white film photograph.
A motorcycle, blurred by its movement, coming out of the darkness of an underpass into the daylight. Toned black and white digital photograph.
Backlighted uniformed gent with white cap (marine?) throws his checkered shadow in a busy, somewhat architecturally heavy, colonnade. Digitally split-toned black and white film photograph.
The Venetian equivalent of driving one's truck. Digitally toned black and white film photograph.
Passengers exiting and boarding a train, blurred by their own and camera movement. Toned black and white digital photograph.
Panorama of a white and red 2CV Citroën in a parking lot in the old town of Chinon. Digital color photograph, non-photorealistic rendering.
Elegant blonde lady on her way with a huge portfolio in the paved streets of Lyon. Digitally toned black and white film photograph.
Tired of my attention this crow showed me its butt, but what struck me were the legs – pure dinosaur. One doesn't pay enough attention to that anatomical detail. (Teaser: where are a bird's knees?) Digital color photograph.
Two heavily grazed from below fig trees make for lonesome parasol like sentinels in the otherwise void landscape of the steppes in the High Plains of Algeria. Digitally toned medium format black and white film photograph.
Man in black suit standing at the threshold of a room in pastel colors (contemporary art exhibition). If you go to such events you've probably noticed that a strict black suit seems to be the obligate dress code in contemporary art circles. Digital color photograph.
A vivid red refuse bag, emblazoned with the Swiss cross, in a very dull but clean urban setting. Digital color photograph.
Very tame garden, with white table and chairs, bushes, and flowers in the Italian speaking part of Switzerland. Digitally toned black and white film photograph.
Diagonal streaks of little sharp clouds against a soft background in the last colors of the day. Digital color photograph.
A phallic standing stone against the Cévennes countryside as background. Digitally toned black and white film photograph.
Ginger tabby cat with blep lounging on one of my carpets (after having sharpened its claws on it). Digital color photograph.
Dark / light and wet / dry contrasts of the pebbles along a mountain river bank, diagonally through the image. Black and white digital photograph.
Pedestrians crossing a bridge in Murano. Street photography with wide-angle lens, flash and long handheld exposure. Digitally toned black and white film photograph.
Various (and curious) laundry pieces flapping in the wind, in front of a typical richly textured Venetian house wall. Digitally toned black and white film photograph.
The still waters of a pond, with fallen leaves and branches, reflect the grey autumn sky: nature's complex structures (and recycling chaos). Digital color photograph.
The title says it all, but the red wall in the background is a nice touch. Digital color photograph.
Iconic barbed wire barrier of the Auschwitz Birkenau / Oświęcim concentration camp in Poland. Digitally toned black and white film photograph.
Two pedestrians, blurred by movement, walk into a repeating structure of light panels. Split-toned black and white digital photograph.