There is quite a few interresting buildings in the newly build area of the city.

At the west of the cicty, the Passage de Pommeraye is a nice shopping mall from the middle of the ninetith century.

Some other photos of the weekend.

And you can check my friend’s work on his Flickr : Valentin Herbert. He has some really good urban shots.

Since I don’t have my X100 anymore, I decided to move to a X-E1 in order to keep the size and weight down and being able to change lenses if needed.I bought a fuji 27mm when I went to have a really small camera, and got a Samyang 12/2 and a Fuji 50-230/4.5-6.7 to have a setup to travel with only light equipment, and well cheaper in case someone decide he likes your bag more than you do.

Anyway, here are some of the first shot I did, with some 100% crops from jpeg straight out of the X-E1.

And two more images where I think you don’t need the 100% crops.

Back in January I tried to take some photos in the Paris Metro while my friend Valentin Herbert was around.

And as always I find it to be quite an hard thing to do if you want to get some decent shots!

Too much information in the frame or not enough?

I’m still quite impressed at people that manage to take great shots in the underground, I find it quite difficult myself!

Sunday 19th January 2014, we all meet around 14:30 in front of the entrance of the park. The weather wasn’t supposed to be good at all, but in the end we even got some sun! You can get a decent feeling of what the weather was like this day, blue on one side, gray on the other.

Sometimes it is hard as well to decide if you want something in or out of your photo. It is quite hard sometimes to decide if your like a picture more in black and white or in colors!

It is always handy to have a friend to act as a passerby when out for urban shooting! Go have a look on his flickr page, his name is Valentin Herbert, he does some great urban shot.

One early Saturday morning, we decided with some members of my photoclub to go for a walk around Javel and the new Beaugrenelle Shopping Center in Paris.

November 23rd was a really cold day, and we set to take some picture for the workshop I am leading this year. The aim is to try to put together the different views from everyone to mordern urban environnement.

Val Thorens, January 25th 2014 : back to the same spot than last time, shaped it bigger with a rail in as well, with more riders.

We used 2 tube to try to put a rail in order to drop from the ledge, but unfortunatly the landing was too flat and we so many riders around, it quickly became unusable.

This time there were few more riders around, and that was quite fun. I bought some wireless trigger for the flash, Yongnuo YN-622C, to try to get a better lighting than last time! And well, that was way more practical, but having so many riders at the same time was quite hard…. anyway that was a cool evening with some decent shots!

Julien Savary (Yes Snowbards, Now Snowboarding, Advita wear)

Arthur Charlier

Guillaume Adam (Zion Snowboards, Union Binding, Colour Wear Clothings) was one of the few to try the rail.

  Nosepress baby!

Frontflip, indeed. By Julien Thethom Nguyen.

     God that dog was lucky!

And well night photography there is quite hard compared to day photography! The building are quite close one from each other, and with all the light it is quite hard to avoid the flares.

There are some awesome reflection to play with though! But that was quite a cold night, and after a long day at work, we did feel like going home for a warm meal and some rest after a couple of hour.

That was an interesting evening out in the end, and i will probably try to get there again at some point, probably by day this time though!