deep down within our sleep we all have dreams about places where we keep on coming back, they might be places where we spent our childhood or places made up by our own imagination…in this post I am using a single picture of an autumn landscape and I like to take you through a journey where I am playing at "a variation through an autumn landscape"…

 

 

autumn wanderer...

 

 

 

autumn mist...

 

 

 

autumn window...

 

 

 

spooky autumn woods...

 

 

 

cracked autumn woods...

 

 

 

autumn deers...

 

 

 

 

autumn window cleaning...

 

 

 

autumn cyclist...

 

 

 

autumn window cleaning (2)...

 

 

 

autumn park umbrella...

 

 

 

autumn street umbrella...

 

 

 

autumn bright spell...

 

 

 

autumn medieval castle...

 

 

 

 

autumn in Montmartre...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



In this new post I would like to share my passion for the customs and folklore of some of the french regions that I like best…I am looking for what we call in French “terroir” which is a sense of a particular place … like in previous post I am using techniques about adding extra texture and grip to the pictures making them look older than they really are….

 

 

 

coiffes bretonnes...

 

 

 

petits basques...

 

 

 

les guardians de camargue...

 

 

 

l'arlesienne...

 

 

 

farandole provençale...

 

 

 

clair obscur alsacien...

 

 

 

le chabrot auvergnat...

 

 

 

le chabrot auvergnat (2)...

 

 

 

la gaveuse d'oies...

 

 

 

la truffe noire du perigord......

 

 

 

vin jaune et comté du jura...

 

 

 

l'alchimie du vin...

 

 

 

 

 



i have decided to experiment with texture...and (shattered and broken glass windows, palm shadows on sand and rain and whirlpools) can add some wonderful visual effects...

 

 

cracking mermaid...

 

 

cracking zombie...

 

 

 

broken liberty...

 

 

 

white bikini palm girl...

 

 

 

chinese fan palm girl...

 

 

 

drowning dreams...

 

 

 

wet dream girl...

 



 

 

broken frame beach girl...

 

 

 

la dolce vita...

 

 

 

bikini girl splash...



i still remember as a child when i was watching western films or cowboys films as we used to call them, either on the big screen at the cinema or on telivision with my brother and dad actors like john Wayne and film director John Ford were amongst our favorites....

 

cowboy and cows...

 

 

 

the lone ranger...

 

 

 

chasing wild horses...

 

 

 

the diligence...

 

 

 

cowboys and Indians...

 

 

 

i have been living in the countryside since may 1999 after i spent 15 years in London....i live in a tiny village in Rutland part of the Eastmidlands region and i absolutly love it...this post is very much a continuation of the previous post with new pictures related to pastoral scenes where pictures start to look more like old paintings rather than pictures...

 

 

 

le dejeuner sur l'herbe...

 

 

promenade champetre...

 

 

 

la sieste...

 

 

 

grazing field...

 

 

 

wheat harvest...

 

 

 

la sieste (2)...

 

 

 

cattle drinking on river...

 

 

 

old water mill and geese...

 

 

 

barque on duck pond...

 

 

 

old bridge ducks and castle...

 

 

 

barque and wind mills...

 

ploughman and horses...

 

 

canoeing at the pont Valentré......