My week started with another cloudless but colorful sunrise and I proceeded to shoot yet another picture of the Le Dramont cape and Île d’Or Island while taking my morning stroll by the seashore.

This is very close to a very precise framing that I’ve been trying get for a little while. Though I would love to capture that shot with colorful clouds, I’m happy with this result.

If I manage to take an even better photo with the same composition in the next few weeks, it will be great; if not, no big deal.

What is that snorkeler doing on all fours? Is he looking for his keys? Trying to reach the buoy and, if so, why crawl instead of swim?
And is “snorkeler” even a word? Or is it a “snorkel enthusiast”, or something else?
So many unanswered questions…

Having the fisherman in the picture wouldn’t have bothered me and I wouldn’t have content-awared him, but I really like it this way. I assume he was bending over to grab something just when I pressed the shutter, but as a matter of fact I noticed it only when looking at the photo on my laptop.

Of the few shots I took, this is the only one where he’s not visible and, as luck has it, also the only one where the boat was perfectly perpendicular to my line of sight.

If you’ve followed me for a while, you know by now that the mundane often draws my attention.
These buoys were taken out of the water the previous day (and put back in the water the next, as it happens) and I liked the bundles of them, the ropes and rusty metal, and the wheelbarrow on the side (you might recognize it from last week’s favorites).

I wasn’t sure including the wheelbarrow was a good idea, so I tried different framings, focal lengths and apertures to avoid bringing too much attention to it, but after looking at all of them regularly for days, it is this one that really started to grow on me.
The wheelbarrow is just enough out of focus to not steal the show, despite the bright colors. And precisely because it’s almost in focus, it’s clear that it’s not far away in the back and that gives a better sense of scale.

Well, that’s how I see it, anyway, but I’m sure some of you might disagree. If you do, just keep coming back to it; maybe it’ll grow on you too 😉

One of them will not catch fish anytime soon.

Really happy with this one. It was not a fleeting moment per se, but there was only a 24-hour window to take a shot of those stairs.

I don’t think many people even remotely considered it, but it would have made for an incredible pop-up Instagram location of sorts.

Very useful crowd control barrier at the beach…

I love the balance between it and the two people on the right, the calm sea and pastel colors in the sky at sunset.

You recognize the silhouette, right?

Still hunting for new ways to photograph it, and some beautiful flowers at the same time. The bees were not part of the plan, but wanted some attention.

Some people struggle with their photography because they spend all their time the same location(s), where they live and work, and don’t feel inspired anymore.

While I do travel a lot, as nomads do, I have the same problem when I stay in a place for months, like now. However, in my view, trying to find new ways to shoot in a familiar location is not only fun and very satisfying when we manage to take good photos than are completely different from the previous ones, it’s also a great way to improve one’s creativity and becoming a better photographer.

Back to that photo… The more I look at it, the more I wonder what is actually the main subject, the flowers or the silhouette of the hill and island.

Once again, this week’s photos are the result of taking my camera every time I go out, even for a 10-minute walk. Most of the time I just carry it and don’t press the shutter button a single time, but what matters is the few times I do because I come upon something worth shooting.

Those are the kind of photos I keep in mind every time my laziness tries to take control and I have to harness every little bit of willpower I have to leave the flat with my camera in hand.