May 31, 2010
It is Memorial Day in America so I have a extra day off for the week-end which is awesome. I have had a great time this week-end so far and I enjoying a peaceful day and remembering the meditation retreat I did a couple weeks ago. When you go to a silent meditation retreat, it […]
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May 9, 2010
Back from a wonderful and peaceful week-end in the California wine country… It always happens… When I take time to rest and relax, my inspiration returns naturally. Alex and I escaped again for a wonderful week-end in Yountville at our favorite resort. Bardessono is one of these incredible places where time stops and it is […]
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February 2, 2010
I always enjoyed photographing still life subjects and should do it more. What I usually look for is a different angle to capture the object to enhance one of its features or I try to play with blur effects or shadows. In this photograph, I like how blurry the knife is and how it frames […]
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November 28, 2009
Last night, I took my cousin and his girlfriend for a night tour of San Francisco which gave me some inspiration to go back out and take night shots when it gets a little warmer. That’s why I wanted to publish one of my night shots today. This photograph was taken in the little village […]
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October 2, 2009
This week-end, I am going climbing in Yosemite with my friend Nathan so I wanted to post a fun photograph related to that… I took this shot with my wide angle lens… I think you start to see how much I like this lens and how funny I think it is to take close ups […]
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September 29, 2009
I was looking at my former posts to figure out what I wanted to publish today and realized that I have been blogging for a few weeks now and have not even posted anything about my other huge passion: Rock Climbing! Most of my published photographs are from the past 18 months and I have […]
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California, Yosemite by Marylise
September 27, 2009
Today, I will share one of my night shots… one of the rare ones I was able to get in Yosemite. When doing a night shot, if you face north, you will get the North Star in the middle and all other stars turning around it. I wanted to get a unique shot with the […]
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September 23, 2009
As you might have noticed in the earlier postings, I not only like photographing animals but also love to find the tiny insects and take macros of them. The photograph I chose for today was taken close to San Francisco in the gardens of an amazing place called Filioli. Filoli is the house of an […]
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September 22, 2009
Today, we are back to one of my favorite place in California and probably in the World: Yosemite. I feel blessed to live only a few hours away from this incredible park. Whether you are a climbing, hiker or simply someone who enjoy nature’s beauty, you will be amazed and speechless the first time you […]
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September 16, 2009
Tonight, I am a little tired after a long day at work so I was looking for a calming photograph… and started to look into my “star trail” collection and decided to publish this photograph taken in Joshua Tree National Park during Thanksgiving 2008 week-end. First, for my English speaking readers, “La tete dans les […]
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