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10 March 2018
Detti and I took the opportunity of this nice weather weekend to go camping in the Blue Mountains and enjoy a nice walk, that goes through the Glow Worms Tunnel of Newnes. A very varied walk, with some views over the top of the eucalyptus trees, and some passage underground, in the man made former train tunnels, but also, if you know where to look, in some natural caves where a very small stream snakes around.
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9 June 2018
This autumn and winter, I had the pleasure to go and find on many occasion some Coprinus on the lawn just outside our building. And so, often after a sauna (the walk to the sauna passes those mushroom, and so I then knew there was a few asking to be picked), I would comeback armed with a knife and a small container and cut the fresh ones.
So delicious!
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12 June 2018
Today at my local supermarket, I saw a fruit that I had heard of, seen pictures of, but never encounter in real life. Buddha’s hand. It is a citrus, of a very different and interesting shape (the pictures, I believe, speak for themselves).
And it is quite beautiful. So I set up a little studio on my dining table, and spent a bit of time taking some shots.
And then, the few following weeks, I cooked with it It is Soooo good! There is no real “flesh” to it, if you think of a lemon, you have the skin, first the zesty yellow part of it, then the white quite sour layer, and then you reach the “flesh” juicy, at time sweet, but often not really.
Well, there is only skin, and the white inner layer, which constitute most of the hand itself, is not sour. And so you have a nice tase, without sourness. I used it in many dishes, with mushrooms (coprin from the grass inside our building!), in my own rendition of a Ratatouille, with fish, chicken… Delicious.
I haven’t find it again at my supermarket, but I keep looking!
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27 August 2018
Today, Belle, Detti and I are off to do a walk in the Heathcote National Park, a park that I have never explored before, but seems to be quite promizing, with the promises of beautiful water hole, rivers and the like.
And we are very happily swept away by how accessible it is, and yet how pristine and natural it is! Some very peaceful water hole, amazing trees, GYmea Lillies…
We will be back!
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2 September 2018
On our second (and alas last) day in the Blue Mountains, we had decided (a bad weather forecast helping us to reach that decision) that a visit to the famous Jenolan Cave could be a very nice place to show our international friends. We decided upon the River Cave, and we were not disappointed.
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1 September 2018
Penny having just come back from France with a little frog, she organized a weekend away in the Blue Mountains, and Detti Hemant and I were invited. We joined the fun, and had the surprise of an awesome welcome party at the AirBnB we were staying at: Birds. Plenty of birds, which came to us for a feed, and to the delight of our French guest, and our Indian flatmate.
Once we left the birdies to their day, we went for a short walk along side one of the many little stream that one can enjoy in the area, and came back some time later for some more bird watching.
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10 September 2018
On our way back from Lemon Tree Passage, we drive past a zone of the forest which had suffered from a previous bush fire. I had noticed it on our way in. The sharp contrast between the charcoal black of the totally burnt wood, and the bright orange and yellow of some gumtree’s trunk. I had thought it could make for some good pictures. So as we drive by, I asked Detti if she would mind stopping for a few minutes.
I think I could have easily walked around and take snaps for hours. And would have probably end up with a lot of crappy shots too.
But there is something there that I really appreciate. I hope you will too.
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6 September 2016
A friend told me I could find some there, and he was right. This native plant is quite amazing. I couldn’t resist the purple that were blooming nearby.
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Un ami m’a dit que je pouvais en trouver ici. Il avait raison. Cette plante locale est vraiment magnifique. Je n’ai pas pu résister aux fleurs mauves qui poussaient à côté.
28 August 2016
Detti and I went to spend the day with her parents down at the property. I played around with my new lenses, enjoying macro tubes to capture details with those amazing crazy bokeh. I also do some test on star shots… What a beautiful sky this is!
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Detti et moi nous sommes allés voir ses parents à Falls Creek. Je me suis amusé avec mes nouveaux objectifs et des tubes de macro, pour capturer des détails avec ces bokehs un peu fous. Je fais aussi des tests de photo d’étoiles. Quelle nuit magnifique!
4 June 2016
So today I cooked a ratatouille. And while it was happily bobbling in the sauce pan I was amazed by the abstract color pattern and couldn’t resist taking my camera out.
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Aujourd’hui, alors que ma ratatouille cuisait à feu doux dans une grande casserole, je me suis trouvé fasciné par les couleurs et motifs que je pouvais voir sur le couvercle. Je n’ai pas pu résister à en prendre quelques photos.