Pana Lumix 100-300, 300mm, f/5.6, 1/50, iso3200

Olympus MZ 45mm, f/1.8, 1/1250, iso200

Is this...

Pana-Leica 25mm, f/1.4, 1/30, iso3200

... the end...

Olympus MZ 12-50, 36mm, f/11.0, 1/640, iso200

... of the world?

Olympus MZ 12-50, 12mm, f/9.0, 1/400, iso200

Hmmm... Don't think so :)

Pana-Leica 25mm, f/4.5, 1/15, iso3200

Olympus MZ 45mm, f/1.8, 1/100, iso3200

From our holiday time in Pinarello...

Paradisiac place, w/ beautiful lansdscapes, beautiful beaches, and my beautiful daughter :)

Samyang fish-eye, f/11, 1/2000, iso200

Samyang fish-eye, f/11, 1/4000, iso200

Samyang fish-eye, f/11, 1/500, iso200

Olympus MZ 45mm, f/4.0, 1/3200, iso200

Pana-Leica 25mm, f/1.4, 1/80, iso800

Olympus MZ 45mm, f/1.8, 1/100, iso400

Olympus MZ 45mm, f/1.8, 1/80, iso3200

This year, we spent our special week-end between friends in Zocca, Emilia Romagna, Italy. And as usual we had a very good time...

These are the things we did do:

• we stared at sunsets,

  Pana-Leica 25mm, f/4.0, 1/1000, iso200

• we continuously listened to Paolo ;),
• we drunk wine & coffee (sometimes too much, especially Choa),

  Pana-Leica 25mm, f/2.5, 1/800, iso200

• we ate excellent food,
• we walked a little bit in the countryside,

  Olympus MZ 12-50, 12mm, f/4.0, 1/2500, iso200

• we drove Fiat 500 (except Jéjé & Choa^^),
• we spent some time in Bologna.

  Samyang fish-eye, f/11, 1/160, iso200

And these are the things we didn't do:

• we didn't agree on politics,

  Olympus MZ 45mm, f/3.2, 1/640, iso200

• we didn't sleep enough,
• we didn't meet any girl (except Damien^^),

  Olympus MZ 45mm, f/1.8, 1/4000, iso200

• we didn't work (except Rabi),
• we did'nt shave,

  Pana Lumix 100-300, 300mm, f/5.6, 1/320, iso200

• we didn't play poker (phew!)
• and, last but not least, we didn't really listen to what Paolo said actually ;p

  Olympus MZ 45mm, f/4.0, 1/100, iso200

More pictures? Look at here...!

I'm definitively convinced that we are entering (or have already entered) some kind a new dark ages in Europe and especially in France. Unemployement is continuously rising, poperty is clearly spreading out, politics are close to useless and the whole social and employment systems have become completely kafkaesque... And incredibly inefficient: most of the employed people for example are just paid to execute 100% useless jobs (typical job today is to check what others are doing, who in turns are also checking what others are doing and so on...). In the end, mass medias are also loosing self-control and spread stupid messages all around, and people are becoming more and more selfish, disillusioned and angry. And only interested by foolish stupid things...

On top of this, you add energy depletion, global warming, absurd religious regress and, last but not least, complete crash down of the education system and then you can really start worrying for the future! And guess what? Front National just won European parliament elections this night in France... Not so surprising in fact given the situation, even quite comical in some sense...

But this is also kind of freaky... ;(

Dark (tricolor) ages - Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France

Pana-Leica 25mm, f/16, 1/80, iso 320

Pana-Leica 25mm, f/1.8, 1/60, iso 2500

We recently spent a week in the Alpes, in Notre-Dame de Bellecombe, near Mont Blanc. This was a fantastic week: good weather, fresh snow and last but not least, not overcrowded AT ALL !!!

Here a are a few pictures... I love mountains :)