Canon EOS 5D Mk III – 70-200mm f2.8 – 1/100s f/3.2 ISO 200 – Chiara and Olivier on the 2nd January, wandering in the streets of Barcelonnette. First picture of both of them this year – and very likely one of the last where they are both facing me smiling, without moving.
First let me wish everyone a great 2014, a photogenic year full of wonderful shots. I wish we had good excuses for the lack of activity in the past 3 months – but unfortunately nothing less boring than crawling under lot’s of work and very few photo opportunities. Surprisingly the backlog of pictures to go through increased – even so we took very few pictures in the past two months of the year.
So moving backward from January 2014 – we spent a surprisingly warm week in Le Sauze for Chiara skiing debuts – a stressful moment (this is skiing we are talking about here !) she passed with flying colours, showing resilience, envy and perseverance. Olivier was un-impressed by the snow however, and Chiara ended up spending more time on the skis than anyone else during the week !
Canon EOS 5D Mk III – 70-200mm f2.8 – f/3.2 ISO 200 – (left) Skiing under the snow at 9am in the morning, first blue run top to bottom. (right) She is too light and not strong enough to let the steel rope go – meaning trouble at arrival and when falling.
Canon EOS 5D Mk III – 70-200mm f2.8 – 1/1000s at f/3.2 ISO 100 – Again in the morning cold, showing off her skills and balance.
Canon EOS 5D Mk III – 70-200mm f2.8 – 1/80s at f/3.2 ISO 100 – Blue Olivier practising snow-walking. He does smile on this shot but this was uncommon unfortunately.
Canon EOS 5D Mk III – 40mm f2.8 STM – 1/50s at f/2.8 ISO 100 – Olivier more confident opening up presents back in Marseille. This picture was a tight crop of a much larger picture (about 3 times the size).
Canon EOS 5D Mk III – 40mm f2.8 STM – 1/200s at f/2.8 ISO 100 – The princess and her royal court. She does like to be the centre of attention and making her show.