A saturday in Annecy (France) !

[JPS]

...I went with my wife doing a bit of shopping in Annecy (about 35 km. SW of Geneva)... we had a nice long walk thru the old town, and here's a few pics, all with S2 and Sigma 12-24 !
Post-process: correct perspective distortion, crop to 1.4:1, apply Andre's action, USM 500, 0.5, 2, resize for Web !
:cheers:

[Keith Cocker]

Jean-Pierre,

Your lovely photos bring back memories for me. I spent part of my Honeymoon there in 1995 (also in Avignon and Dijon) and more recently, one of my clients, Alcatel, has a conference and training centre on the Lake in a beautiful chateau. I have made several visits and enjoyable stays while working hard there :cool: :cool: :beerchug: (wine not guiness!)

Best wishes

[deMille]

Great colors. Like very rich hue pastels. A contradiction I guess, but I don't know how else to define it.

Another place I need to visit!

Dale

[JPS]

Hi Keith and Dale ! Yes, Annecy is one of the nicest place of France (and also the second more expensive) !!!

I often go there, be it in winter or summer... Normally I would have prefered to go in a week-day, because I don't like having people in this kind of shots ! But the beginning of summer brings a tremendous lot of visitors...
:cheers:

[Serge]

Jean-Pierre!
you lucky Swiss roll, now its my turn to say OMG how I wish I was there :cheers:

The first three especially are wonderfull as they are, and from experience, they would look fabulous treated as watercolors in ""PhotoArtmaster",
the one I used for my tree shots in "Buzzed Thrice" thread.

The large areas of plain color work a treat in that package, if you don't mind I will have a play with them tonight, and show you, see if you agree ;)

P.S.
the vapour trail in the last one,
is such a marvellous juxtoposition of medieval and modern :beerchug:

[JPS]

........they would look fabulous treated as watercolors in ""PhotoArtmaster".........
Go on then ! ...don't be shy ! have all "go" you want at it, I love to see what can be done with a pic ! any treatment applied is worth trying ! ...there are so many possibilities, going far away from "pure photography", to reach "pure ART" !!!
:cheers:

[JPS]

...the last two from this serie:

[Serge]

Jeane-Pierre,

your last two images are almost water color in quality already, amazing color pallette.

Here is what I came up with last night using your first 3 images :cheers:

[JPS]

Yeahhhhh ! Serge, these really are paintings !!! That's what I said on my other post: with digital, Ithink the possibilities are so wide that it's not really photography anymore, it can become real ART, only the results counts !!!
...and even though you used a "commercial" action, only your eye can decide of the result, as there are certainly many different options and setting in this action !
Congrats brother !!! Although I liked very much some of my Annecy shots ( :o excuse the lack of modesty), I LOVE what you done with them !!!
:cheers:

[HulaMike]

Love the color in the originals JP. The dead green river (?) contrasted with the building and sky color is superb.

Serge, nice rendering I guess although I'm not a fan of semi automatic software effects. Just not my thing.

[NZDoug]

Mike
your just a stick in the mud. :lol:
JPS
Geourgeous shots and the Serge paintings are stunning, also.
What a amazing part of the planet to live on.
Be nice to hang out for a week or 3.
Pass the red.
:throwup:

[JPS]

..........The dead green river (?) contrasted with the building and sky color is superb........
Hi Mike ! the river isn't dead at all... it comes out from the Annecy LAke, about one mile further in the city, but I guess it's because the bottom of the river has been cimented in this part of the city, and it's cleaned regularly, so that gives the water this strange color ! Otherwise, the Lake of Annecy has been found as the cleanest in France (wich maybe doesn't mean much... :rolleyes: ) !
:cheers:

[proberts]

I've had a go too- lots of selecting and swapping colors, blur tool and some filters on selected regions. Very cool images!

Paul

[Andre]

JP, those colors are stunning. Not just what the camera produced, but also the color mixes that you chose.

Very nice!

[JPS]

..........I've had a go too- lots of selecting and swapping colors, blur tool and some filters on selected regions............
Hi Paul ! Nice twickening indeed !!! I think that this pic is -hopefully- the kind of photo that is "calling" to be "played" with...
:cheers:

[proberts]

Hi Paul ! Nice twickening indeed !!! I think that this pic is -hopefully- the kind of photo that is "calling" to be "played" with...
:cheers:

Very much so! Replace color with a selection is one of my favorite things to play with! The originals are great pictures, but the large swaths of color beg to be adjusted and played with!

Thanks for sharing them!

Paul

[robinp]

Ah, Annecy!, nice shots Jean Pierre -looks like you were lucky with the weather (as with many lakes in beatiful mountainous settings it can and does RAIN).

Serge, you must be familiar with the films of Eric Rohmer? - his 1971 Claire's Knee aka Le Genou de Claire was set on the lake at Annecy. The film inspired me to visit the area in the 80's and I've camped by the lake many times since, brings back fond memories of romantic holidays with old girlfriends.
In 1982 I was so jealous of the people obviously enjoying cycling round the lakeside cycle track that I nearly bought a bike there & then. Instead when I got back from holiday I read up on the subject and built my own bicycle - the next summer I rode it through France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland & Italy, ah the joys of bachelorhood!

Sorry, got a little carried away there, its just that mention of Annecy brings back so many memories - even a Neil Young concert (in the rain).

Thanks Jean-Pierre, Robin

[Serge]

Must be telepathy Robin :D
no sooner than I dispatch a response to your post, and the comments re
JP's method, and you reply on his thread :lol:
I studied French Cinema many years ago ( over 20), and have heard of Eric Romer, will have to look at that film, the setting certainly is idealic, and I can well appreciate how you could be forgiven for being transported back, especially now in your summer, boy I'd love to be there now :beerchug:

BTW
to me Truffaut's "Jules et Jim" remains the quintesential manage a trois tale,
up there with Bertaloucci's "Last Tango" for the futility of eros defiled, and love's deadly price.

[robinp]

BTW
to me Truffaut's "Jules et Jim" remains the quintesential manage a trois tale,
up there with Bertaloucci's "Last Tango" for the futility of eros defiled, and love's deadly price.

I love French film (obviously) and Truffaut's work but Jules et Jim I just can't understand! Must give it yet another viewing sometime, the point of it will get to me eventually.
I find Eric Rohmer's films deliciously bitter/sweet evocations of the so called joys of youth - reccommend them all....

Cheers, Robin

[JPS]

.................looks like you were lucky with the weather (as with many lakes in beatiful mountainous settings it can and does RAIN).............
Hi Robin ! you're absolutly right ! Beiing born in Geneva, wich is only 30 miles from Annecy, I know very well the area, but my wife, beiing brazilian, only knew Annecy by photos or documentaries, and she fell in love with that place... we often go there, but I have to say that 8 times out of 10, the sky is not as clean as the day I took these pics... I guess we aren't lucky -because the number of sunny days is larger for Anneca than for Geneva-, but I can count on my fingers the numbers of times I had real sunny weather when I went there...
Whenever you will go in this area, please let me know, so that we can meet !
:cheers:

[robinp]

Whenever you will go in this area, please let me know, so that we can meet !
:cheers:
Thanks for the invite JPS, may have to wait until next year when I must make an overdue visit to my brother in Bern.

Cheers, Robin