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).

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.

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!

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.