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Posted in Statistics with tags The Guardian, landscape photography, rainbow, hiking, UK landscape, Staffordshire, Peak District, Dragon's Back on December 23, 2022 by xi'ana photographer’s demise
Posted in Books, Mountains, pictures, Travel with tags Afghanistan, Central Asia, Khighizistan, landscape photography, obituary, Soviet Union on May 28, 2020 by xi'an50/50 photography competition [another public image]
Posted in Statistics with tags competition, jatp, landscape photography, Old Man of Storr, Université Paris Dauphine, Vert le Futur on February 17, 2019 by xi'anin the street for a year
Posted in Mountains, pictures, Travel, University life with tags Auvergne, boulevard Lannes, competition, green future, jatp, Lac Pavin, landscape photography, Paris, Skye, the Quinrang, Université Paris Dauphine on April 13, 2018 by xi'anJust like about every year, I sent two of my pictures to the photography competition of Paris Dauphine, with not much consideration for the theme “green the future”, and was hence quite surprised to get selected this time! (Almost as much surprised as last year when an almost perfect copy of my picture of the Alcazar Baths of Lady María de Padilla got selected!) As I could travel back from Oxford to attend the opening ceremony, I went there last night, wondering at which of my pictures had been selected (Lac Pavin, Auvergne versus the Quinrang, Skye)…
And so this picture will remain exposed in the street, boulevard Lannes, for the incoming year, meaning I will cross it each time I bike to the university! The 22 other pictures were more in tune with the theme of a green future, like the winning one of a fast moving métro carriage at the station Chemin Vert. Or this simple blade of grass growing from ashes…
And thus the winner is… Continue reading