This is my very first photo-hunting session in Lyon (France) : 6 hours walking, 300 shots taken, I'm exhausted but that was great ! Can't wait for next time.
(I hate winter : since I have no tripod, I have to rush to the spots I want to shoot before the sun sets... Quite the opposite of vampires huu? =)
After discovering the mysteries of white balance last week in Paris, this time I peeked into bracketting... This is just so cool to post-process pictures in Photoshop ! (just see the result for the greenhouse pictures)
He go the pictures :
Starting with the giant greenhouses in le Parc de la Tête d'Or
I really love the Art Nouveau type of architecture, it mixes so well with nature, mainly because it was inspired by it I guess.
Anyway, this yields goregous greenhouses.
It's so hot and wet in some parts of the greenhouse, here is what I got. It makes the picture so smooth! Lovely.
From la Tête d'Or, I went straight to les pentes de la Croix-Rousse but the sun was already low.
(I shouldn't have paused for 2 hours in a café anyway =)
This is the side of a church I like very much because its entrance is 4 meters above the floor and there are no stairs !
Except on its side as you can see. (too many stairs in this damn city anyway!)
Doesn't it remind you of the exorcist some way, huu ?
Here is Fourvières seen from high enough during the way up. It seems like a floating dark castle...
Down the boulevard de la Croix-Rousse, you find this : Hell's Mouth.
Actually, it's an old fort that is now a property of Le Trésor Public (the French institution for taxes) so this is Hell alright !
At the top, here are the colors I could see !
That makes you wonder why people need a TV for...
The entrance of someone's property
A pleasant backyard with a christmas tree.
What is far more unpleasant and that I couldn't render here is some sort of vault entrance in the dark part with the trees.
This needs hell of a lot of further investigation !
A completely fucked up shot of the wonderful stairs I will certainly investigate more deeply next time.
You couldn't tell seeing this but it's about 20 meters high and very very frightening !
Some more stairs... Ready to go down?
Down the Croix-Rousse, now in Saint Paul : the Church
(behind)
(side)
Some examples of what makes Lyon a special place...
(you can actually find that kind of surprise any time : wandering in a place you've never been to before,
entering some uncommonly open inner yard, etc. )
Here is Saint Jean and its fountain. I love that picture !
The side of the impressively majestic cathedral... These architects were geniuses !
Ending with the alleyway near the Lycée Ampère...
A very nice shot indeed...
I'm quite happy because a girl passed by and threw some unpleasant remark at me like I would need
a tripod or else my picture would be blurry ! Ah ! Tell me so !
Here is the result ! Clean ! No blur ! Muhahahah! (bitch!)