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!)