When I visited London for the second time, I immediately noticed the stunning architectural contrast between this relatively small old building and the neighboring modern towers.

Cultural elements often add a touch of authenticity and uniqueness to a landscape picture. I stumbled upon this totem many years ago in Utah, somewhere around Zion National Park.

Surely one of the most iconic sceneries in Yosemite National Park. A shot no one can miss!

In addition to being a quite beautiful place, the island of Porquerolles in the South East of France is often hosting sailing races during the summer. Such events gather many sailboats close to its coasts, adding a lot of charm to the sea landscape.

During my first visit at Grand Canyon, I decided to challenge myself a bit by hiking down from the top of South Rim to the bottom of the canyon at the Colorado River and back up to the starting point in a single day. This shot was made just the day before, as the idea of the hike was slowly emerging.

Hiking down the Grand Canyon to the Colorado River, I crossed paths with this line of mules led by a single rider on a narrow rocky way. The light conditions were quite good for the moment, with long projected shadows, adding character to the already perfect fit of the subject in the surrounding environment.

The vision of this little boat slowly sailing under Bay Bridge in San Francisco really felt like what I tried to make this photo feel like: a timeless moment.

The beauty of the light filtering through the sand grass one late afternoon on Coronado Beach (San Diego) made that moment feel really special.

In the summer, Badwater Basin (“The Devil’s Golf Course”) in Death Valley is nothing more or less than an immense valley made of a patterned crust of salt. Although this crust looks quite flat in the middle of the day (when the sun is high), the patterns of its surface are fully revealed by the shadows resulting from the lower late afternoon sun.

One evening in Glasgow, I was quite surprised by a large pink stripe in the sky. I took this shot before even wondering about the origin of this vivid pink color. To be honest, I’m still not 100% sure about the nature of such a phenomenon. Air pollution should probably give a more uniform color in the sky… Some kind of northern lights maybe?…

Late afternoon at a small harbor in Trondheim, Norway. A warm atmosphere for one of my last days living in the city where I had lived for a few years.

One late afternoon on the ski lifts of the Swedish ski resort of Åre, I had the surprise of arriving at the mountain top both just aligned with the sun, and between two dense cloud layers. The atmosphere felt a bit “out of this world”…

The visual contrast created by this small peninsula, enlighten by the sun as a warm bright stripe between a dark blue cloudy sky and the green-blue shades of the sea, is really what struck me the most from the boat cruising to Lovundøya, northern Norway. One of those magic “light” moments…

The boat trip from Mo i Rana to Lovundøya in northern Norway offers beautiful lansdcapes. A great example is shown here with these snowy mountains almost surrounded by the sea.

I am not really someone spiritual, but for some reason, I have always felt peaceful when seeing this kind of Buddha sculpture or image. It was particularly the case when I stopped in front of this human-sized white Buddha in Hoi An (Vietnam).

Being one of the few furthest western locations in France, Pointe du Raz is locally often considered as the world’s end. Which is really what such a landscape feels like!

Saint-Jacut-de-la-Mer is a place in Northern Brittany that surely incites a photographer shooting at every turn when strolling along the intricate coastline on a sunny day.

The fall season in the woods is always wonderful as the warm yellow, orange and red tones strongly prevail. Even the ground is covered by what can be called a “golden carpet”.

I never get tired of the landscapes offered by the Emerald Coast (the North-Eastern coast of Brittany). As soon as the tide is getting lower, a subtle balance between water and the complex rocky structure all along the coast is sublimed by the daylight.

This one was taken during a quick stop near Zabriskie Point in Death Valley to admire the sunset. The orange, pink, and yellow reflections on elongated clouds made the sky look like it really was on fire.

The fort of St Malo is one of the many points of interest in northern Brittany. What truly reveals its majesty are both the warm light of a late sunny afternoon and the many surrounding seagulls, which are so typical of the old fortified corsair town of St Malo.

The stillness of the water here allow for a soft reflection of the whole landscape. A lonely little rowboat in the middle of that lake adds the final touch to the feeling of peace such a view inspired me.

The beaches of Normandy are quite known to be particularly long, large, and straight. Drawing a parallel line to the horizon, such a linearity enhances the feeling of vastness I felt when spotting this lonely horse rider in the middle of this warm open space, almost perfectly aligned with the sun’s reflection on such a calm, flat sea.

Green trees, wiggly roads, rivers, snow, clouds, blue sky and the sun, all together. That is what you have in such a majestic mountainous landscape somewhere in Norway.

The stave church of the Norske Folkemuseum in Oslo is an impressive testimony of the post-Viking traditional culture in Norway.

Several aspects of this tower (temple of Hué, Vietnam) seem to point out a correlation with the above sky. Intricate patterns, spiritual meanings…

This nice viewpoint from Volterra is quite representative of the beautiful landscapes of Tuscany. There can one truly feel the heart of Italy!

It was a beautiful sunny day at the end of summer near Pointe du Raz, one of the few “End of the World” places in western Brittany. Waiting for a Milky Way night sky over St They chapel, clouds slowly came to interfere with the setting sun.

Here, the sunset light exposed this western end of Brittany in such a warm and soft way… truly enhancing the “End of the World” feeling when strolling along the cliffs of St They.

This funny looking plant was (and might still be) located somewhere around the Colorado River at Grand Canyon.
I wonder what could have forced this plant to grow in such a wiggly way… Nature sometimes finds unexpected ways!

This straight tall tree grown from the depth and between the rocky walls of Bryce Canyon, the vivid red light reflected by the rocks all around, the sun piercing through the tree top… All these elements contributed to the special view I caught with this shot.

Røros may well be one of the coldest place in Norway during winter, but it is surely a particularly authentic small town, especially when covered with a thick layer of snow.

With mostly traditional wooden houses in one of the coldest town in Norway (and quite snowy place during winter), Røros offers those landscapes which seem a bit frozen in time.

Pipervika’s pier is really one of the great locations to discover Oslo and its surroundings. The cruising sail ship here dominated by the Akershus Fortress is maybe the best way to visit Oslo fjord and its many small islands.

The heights of Volterra offer a beautiful combination of typical Tuscany landscapes and an authentic millennial stone village.

So many metaphors came to my mind when spotting this single tall sunflower emerging in the middle of this sunflower field… Which one comes to your mind first?

Many locations in Brittany are true coastal pearls (especially during sunny moments). The western side of Saint-Jacut-de-la-Mer is surely one of them.

Old traditional windmills are elegant vestiges of the pre-industrial era. They always add a nice touch to any landscape shot.

What better than an old rusty anchor to remind about the maritime history of a place?

The tip “St-Mathieu” at the very western end of Brittany offers one of these particularly moody coastal landscapes. The abrupt coastline, the dark cloudy weather, and the remains of an ancient abbey next to the lighthouse generate a dramatic aspect to the picture. I will surely come back here on a stormy day!

With its crystal clear sea, its many little rocky islands, and an almost 300° sea panorama, the view from the top of the fortified walls of St Malo is one of the main attractions of the old corsair city in Northern Brittany.

It is the beginning of fall in Alsace (north eastern France), and the orange-red colors of the vegetation matches the particularly warm sunlight of the late afternoon. There, a calm and still little lake turns into a nearly perfect natural warm mirror.

I can’t help but notice two strong contrasts between the tall trees and the couple strolling along the river. An obvious contrast in space (size) and a more conceptual contrast of time (ephemerality vs. permanence).