FOLLOW THE MOON
X-T2 | XF35mm F2
A WEEK BEFORE
It was the week before, during preparations.
In the meantime, there have been these government announcements and quite a few complicated times for them to manage. But they got there. They are now married. After a wonderful weekend.
Be happy. Be happy bro.
C’était la semaine d’avant, pendant les préparatifs.
Entre temps, il y a eu ces annonces du gouvernement et pas mal de moments compliqués à gérer pour eux. Mais ils y sont arrivés. Ils sont aujourd’hui mariés. Après un magnifique weekend.
Soyez heureux. Sois heureux fréro.
X-T2 | XF35mm F2
BREATHE
PETIT TONNERRE
We did this shooting in the forest two years ago. And we were already talking about doing this other session at her home.
After a few exchanges of images and ideas, here we are two years later …
Nous avions fait ce shooting dans la forêt il y a deux ans. Et nous parlions déjà de faire cette autre séance chez elle.
Après quelques échanges d’images et d’idées, nous voilà donc deux ans après …
X-T2 | XF23mm F1.4 | XF35mm F2 | Canon FD 50mm F1.4
WHERE IS MY MIND
The posts that will follow in this journal will probably have little or no text. They will just be a succession of images.
Creativity is absent, concentration is absent, envy too.
So I try to force myself, I work on it.
And it will come back one day …
Les articles qui suivront dans ce journal n’auront sans doute pas de texte, ou très peu. Ils seront juste une succession d’images.
La créativité est absente, la concentration est absente, l’envie aussi.
Alors j’essaye de me forcer, j’y travaille.
Et ça reviendra, un jour …
X-T2 | XF23mm F1.4
THE BEAUTY OF EVERYDAY LIFE
In June I was interviewed by FujiXPassion magazine about a series of photos I had taken during the lockdown period.
With their kind permission, I share this interview on this journal.
The Beauty of Everyday Life - Interview with Yoann Buetas
Thank you, Yoann, for opening the doors of your home ! Could you start by introducing yourself to our readers.
My name is Yoann Buetas, I’m 38 years old, I live in a small town in the south of France near the Pyrenees.
I have 2 daughters, 8 and 14 years old.
Photography is not my main job and I thank those around me for giving me so much time for this passion.
I started this practice seriously in 2016 with the acquisition of an X-T10.
How did photography come into your life, and what role does it play ?
Even though I always liked the photo and the image in general, I remember a very precise moment when the "click" was made.
I had just received my new iPhone 6 and I had created an account on Instagram and VSCO. During a family mountain walk, in a winter atmosphere, I focused for the first time on the composition to feed my new social networks. I started editing some shots with VSCO. Seeing the result, I quickly created a blog on this application and started looking for cameras on the internet.
A few months later, I bought my first Fujifilm camera.
Today, I found a kind of second language in photography. It allows me to show what I see and feel. To express feelings. It is a kind of therapy for me. It is my outlet.
This series of photographs that you're presenting today has a very well-defined reason, a particular time-window and place for being. Could you explain ?
In France, we were confined for almost two months. And even though my work never really closed, I stayed home for about a month with my children.
I was finishing a small photo project when the lockdown started : 50/50 project (50 pictures for 50 days with a 50mm focal length) that I published on my website. This series of photos on lockdown came quite naturally thanks to this 50/50 project. I continued to take pictures every day like I did during the 50 days. I continued this naturally because a sort of routine had been set up.
Was capturing life at home during the lockdown a way of maintaining contact with Photography, or does it serve a higher purpose, of recording such an unprecedented event for future memory ? Or a bit of both ?
Usually, I take a lot of photos of my daily life. I am constantly looking for subjects or stories to feed my journal.
When we were confined, the subject seemed obvious to me.
I just had to figure out how I was going to present this series on the blog.
I also felt a need to document this very special period. A kind of mission, a little work to be done every day so as not to lose touch with reality.
I also said to myself that the pictures of this strange "break" in our lives will remain engraved for my daughters when they grow up if their memories fade a little.
Today, this series has turned into an interview in your magazine and I hope that people will recognize themselves in these photos and this atmosphere.
A substantial part of your photos represents candid moments of everyday life during the lockdown. How were you able to become "invisible" and capture these unstaged, genuine moments of your loved ones ?
I am a fairly discreet person. I like to go unnoticed. My entourage is now used to seeing me with a camera always around my neck or in my hand.
The people around me no longer pay too much attention to this or to me when they see me with this object. They go back to their activity right away and it allows me to take this kind of moments of intimacy without them realizing it and without it disturbing them.
I don't particularly like to make them pose and, to be honest, they don't like it either. Sometimes my daughters can hide a little bit when they see the camera. I quickly understand that this is not the right time and I do not insist.
I also turned to mirrorless for this sort of thing. Their small size compared to an SLR allows them to be more discreet, less intrusive.
And their lightness means that I always have it with me, in my bag. It accompanies me in everyday life.
To develop this documentary project, did you have a camera and lens setup that was always ready to use, or were the focal lengths selected according to the mood of the moment, or the subject to be photographed ?
The first photos in this series were taken with the XF35f2 because my project with the 50mm was not finished. Then, I set it aside to continue with a 35mm.
I wanted to change my vision after seeing the world at 50mm during the 50 days of my previous series.
The XF23f1.4 is ideal for those moments in my apartment in low light.
This lens allows me to have a little more perspective to recover the atmosphere and the decor in this fairly small space.
When I needed a little more privacy on the images, I mounted the 50mm on my X-T2.
I bought this device two years after the X-T10.
Even if the X-T10 and the series that followed (X-T20, X-T30) are perfect devices to start the practice, small projects made that I wanted and needed to move to the model a little more "Pro".
After having hesitated for a long time between the X-T2 and the X-Pro2, I chose the X-T series two years ago.
I also occasionally use a Canon FD 50mmf1.4.
For this series and my indoor photos in general, my settings are almost always the same. The aperture is set between 1.4 and 2 to properly highlight the subject. Automatic speed with a limit of 1/125 as my minimum shunter speed. I also let the X-T2 manage the ISO. They can vary between 200 and 3200 during the day, and in the evening from 200 to 6400.
The XF23 and XF35 complement each other quite well, but if you had to choose just one lens, which one would it be and why ?
I always come back to the 50mm very quickly. For me, this is the ideal focal length and the one that suits me the most. The most versatile for my photographic style. It allows me to capture the moments of intimacy, the details.
For many people, the 35mm is more versatile. Of course, I also like this focal length for photographing in somewhat "closed" places, for taking the environment around the subject but my eyes see life in 50mm.
I have the XF35f2 model and I have been thinking about replacing or completing it with the XF35f1.4 model for quite some time. Some people would say that this idea is a little "weird" but I find that these 2 lenses are complementary. The f1.4 for its very particular rendering and for the photos in low light and the f2 for its weather sealing and speed.
What software do you use to edit your photos, and what is your usual workflow ?
I have been a Lightroom user since the start of my practice. I have been trying Capture One for some time, but I do not have enough time to know this software. It’s quite complicated to change your work habits when you have a little mastery of a tool and you don’t have time to change it.
I shoot all the time in RAW + JPEG and I use JPEG on more than 90% of my work.
I basically use three profiles with the X-T2. ClassicChrome for color, Acros + Yellow when I'm indoors and Acros + Red when I’m outdoors for black and white. I directly modify the light and shadow on the device according to the light conditions.
After importing the photos into Lightroom, I often select a series of photos to which I try to apply more or less the same tones and settings so that the series is consistent in color and mood.
Finally, you will certainly agree that inspiration can come from observing the work of others, be it the great classics, or contemporary photographers. If you had to identify the photographer who most influenced your work, who would it be ?
A photographer counted a lot and inspired me enormously at the very beginning of my practice. I continue to follow his work and his blog regularly. Patrick LaRoque showed me that you can take beautiful and very interesting photos in everyday life. That our daily life and our intimacy could add captivating elements to the images.
I didn’t dare to buy a camera too much for fear of not finding exciting subjects to photograph. When I discovered him, I realized it was just the opposite. Magnificent photos can be found there, right under our noses, in these mundane moments and in our routine.
His blog is full of wonders, and it’s true that I envy him a bit about his ability to tell stories and write. An entire artist.
Finally, I would like to thank you very much for this interview and for giving me the opportunity to present this particular series.
OBLIVION
“The best camera is the one that’s with you”
My Canon A1 has ben collecting dust for far too long. I had decided to take him with me that day. With two Fuji Superia 400 films.
It was when I got there that I realized that the device’s battery was empty and it was unusable…
Yet there was everything I love. The mood, the ambiance. A rather heavy sky, fog. It was all there.
So I grabbed my iPhone…
Mon Canon A1 prenait la poussière depuis bien trop longtemps. J’avais décidé de le prendre avec moi ce jour-là. Avec deux pellicules Fuji Supéria 400.
C’est une fois arrivé sur place que je me suis rendu compte que la pile de l’appareil état vide et qu’il était inutilisable…
Il y avait pourtant tout ce que j’aime. L’atmosphère, l’ambiance. Un ciel assez chargé, du brouillard. Tout était là.
Alors j’ai attrapé mon iPhone…
iPhone XR
MEMORIES OF THAILAND
For my second collaboration with FujiXPassion magazine, I came back to my trip to Thailand. We had gone there as a family in April 2018 for three weeks.
The first collaboration had taken the form of an interview. This is an article posted at the end of June on the website.
The photos were selected by the two authors of the site Hugo and Mauricio. I thank them once again for this collaboration.
You can find this article here.
Pour ma deuxième collaboration avec le magazine FujiXPassion, je suis revenu sur mon voyage en Thaïlande. Nous y étions partis en famille en avril 2018 pendant trois semaines.
La première collaboration avait pris la forme d’une interview. Celle-ci est un article posté fin juin sur le site web.
Les photos ont été sélectionnées par les deux auteurs du site Hugo et Mauricio. Je les remercie encore une fois pour cette collaboration.
Vous pouvez retrouver cet article ici.
OUTDOORS III
It was the end of the lockdown. It was already three months…
After weeks of feeling locked in, the girls needed space, light, green.
So we got out of this little town and we drove towards nature.
C’était la fin du confinement. C’était il y a déjà trois mois…
Après avoir eu ce sentiment d’enfermement pendant des semaines, les filles avaient besoin d’espace, de lumière, de vert.
Alors nous sommes sortis de cette petite ville et nous avons roulé vers la nature.
X-T2 | XF23mm F1.4
LOCKDOWN
I have not been too active in recent weeks here ...
There are several reasons for this.
Lockdown took up quite a bit of space in my head. The opposite happened to what should have happened. When I had more time in front of me to do things I love, I just wanted to wait for time and life to pass, and do nothing. Of course I continued to take my camera and take pictures. But they remained on the SD card. I didn't feel like the whole process that comes after the shot. Transfer to iMac or iPad, edit, write ...
I also collaborated with a photo magazine that I buy regularly. Writing an article for their website and an interview took up a lot of my time.
The magazine with which this collaboration was made is called Fuji X Passion. It’s a magazine specializing in this brand that I love so much. There are many reports and interviews there. There are many photo documentary and interviews there. The quality of the images and the photographers I discover there very often leaves me in awe. And I personally find a lot of inspiration there.
We got in touch with a photo I took during lockdown, which I posted on their website as a comment.
With the many photos I took during this period, I was thinking of creating an article or two for my blog. And then these articles turned into an interview that you can find today in this magazine accompanied by my photos.
I’m not hiding from you that it’s a great pleasure to see my name on the cover of a magazine.
Below are some photos accompanying this article.
You can get this edition by following this link.
Je n’ai pas été trop actif ces dernières semaines sur ce journal…
Il y a plusieurs raisons à cela.
Le confinement a pris pas mal de place dans ma tête. Il s’est passé le contraire de ce qui aurait dû se produire. Alors que j’avais plus de temps devant moi pour faire des choses que j’aime, j’ai juste eu envie de regarder le temps et la vie passer, de ne rien faire. J’ai bien sûr continué de prendre mon appareil et de faire des photos. Mais elles restaient sur la carte SD. Je n’avais pas l’envie de tout le processus qui vient après la prise de vue. Le transfert sur l’iMac ou sur l’iPad, la retouche, l’écriture…
J’ai aussi collaboré avec un magazine photos que j’achète régulièrement. La rédaction d’un article pour leur site web et d’une interview a pris le pas sur la tenue de mon blog.
Le magazine avec lequel cette collaboration s’est faite s’appelle Fuji X Passion. C’est un magazine spécialisé autour de cette marque que j’affectionne tant. On y trouve beaucoup de reportages et d’interviews. La qualité des images et les photographes que j’y découvre me laisse très souvent admiratif. Et j’y trouve personnellement beaucoup d’inspiration.
Nous sommes entrés en contact grâce à une photo que j’avais prise pendant le confinement, et que j’avais posté en commentaire sur leur site internet.
Avec les nombreuses photos que j’ai fait durant cette période, je pensais créer un article ou deux pour mon journal. Et puis ces articles se sont transformés en interview que vous pouvez retrouver aujourd’hui dans ce magazine accompagnée de mes photos.
Je ne vous cache pas que c’est un grand plaisir de voir mon nom en page de couverture d’un magazine.
Ci-dessus quelques photos qui accompagnent cet article…
Vous pouvez vous procurer cette édition en suivant ce lien.
X-T2 | XF23mm F1.4
50/50 PROJECT | BONUS
During the fifty days of the project, I accumulated quite a few images. There are days when I just took "two or three" photos, and there were days when I shot a lot before finding and posting "photo of the day".
After finishing the sorting, I kept some photos that I like and I let you discover them here …
Durant les cinquante jours du projet, j’ai accumulé pas mal d’images. Il y a des jours où j’ai juste fait “deux ou trois” photos, et d’autres où j’ai beaucoup shooté avant de trouver puis de poster “la photo du jour”.
Après avoir terminé le tri, j’en ai gardé quelques unes qui me plaisent et que je vous laisse découvrir ici …
X-T2 | XF35mm F2
QUARANTINE COLORS
I cleaned my cameras and lenses, updated my website, ordered the two photo books I had late, cleaned up my Lightroom library and all my backups are up to date (I really need more To !). I finally took the time to update Catalina on my iMac and even if it is a little more reactive, it is starting to get old...
The 50mm is stored and the 35mm is mounted on the X-T10. I rediscovered the fantastic colors of the old X-TRANS II sensor. I always preferred the colors of my old X-T10 to the X-T2. I would have to try the last sensor (Thank you Fuji for noting the date of my birthday which arrives in May. The X-Pro3 is at the top of my wishlist…).
The light in this bathroom when midday arrives is always very beautiful. It's time to play with colors.
J’ai nettoyé mes appareils et les objectifs, mis à jour mon site web, commandé les deux livres photos que j’avais en retard, fait le ménage dans ma bibliothèque Lightroom et toutes mes sauvegardes sont à jour (j’ai vraiment besoin de To en plus !). J’ai enfin pris le temps de passer l’iMac sous Catalina et même s’il est un peu plus réactif, il commence à se faire vieux…
Le 50mm est rangé et le 35mm est monté sur le X-T10. J’ai redécouvert les fantastiques couleurs de l’ancien capteur X-TRANS II. J’ai toujours préféré les couleurs de mon ancien X-T10 au X-T2. Il faudrait que j’essaye le dernier capteur (Merci Fuji de noter la date de mon anniversaire qui arrive au mois de mai. Le X-Pro3 est tout en haut de ma wishlist…).
La lumière de cette salle de bain quand midi arrive est toujours très belle. C’est le moment de jouer avec les couleurs.
X-T2 | XF23mm F1.4
50/50 PROJECT | PART THREE
I didn’t think I would have to carry out the last third of the project under these “lockdown” conditions.
But this situation has not really been an additional difficulty for me, on the contrary.
Despite the fact that my company remains open during this complicated period, I still have to stay at home to babysit. And even if they need help with homework and learning, I have a little more time during the day for myself and for photography.
This project was very interesting to carry out. I think it will have added a lot to my practice. This experience “forced” me to achieve something. And during this time when I have a lot of trouble concentrating on something, this daily goal did me good, it kept my mind occupied.
I have some bonus photos that I will definitely post later in another article. Because if some days I had a little trouble finding "the picture", there were other moments when I hesitated between several shots.
All the photos in this project were taken with the Xf35mm f2 lens on the Fujifilm X-T2 and edited with the VSCO mobile application on the iPad or iPhone. In this third part, the photo of the cat was edited with Lightroom on the iMac.
More and more photographers are using the iPad as a professional tool in their practice. Personally, I don't see myself using only a tablet in my work. Even though this tool is becoming more and more powerful and practical, some locks and deadlocks in the OS annoy me extremely. But for small projects like this one, the tablet and the VSCO Mobile app are really great tools. The only big shortcoming I could find at VSCO might be the local editing found on the "pro" software that I use on the iMac.
This project is finished, the book is gone to printing, and I can close by saying once again that this 50mm focal length is the one that suits me the most.
Je ne pensais pas devoir réaliser le dernier tiers du projet dans ces conditions de “confinement”.
Mais cette situation n’aura pas vraiment été une difficulté supplémentaire pour moi, bien au contraire.
Malgré le fait que mon entreprise reste ouverte durant cette période compliquée, je suis quand même obligé de rester chez moi pour garder mes enfants. Et même si elles ont besoin d’aide pour les devoirs et l’apprentissage, j’ai un peu plus de temps pendant la journée pour moi et pour la photographie.
Ce projet était très intéressant à réaliser. Je pense qu’il aura apporté un plus dans ma pratique. Cette expérience m’a “forcé” à réaliser quelque chose. Et pendant cette période où j’ai beaucoup de mal à me concentrer sur quelque chose, cet objectif quotidien m’a fait du bien, il m’a occupé l’esprit.
J’ai quelques photos bonus que je posterai certainement plus tard dans un autre article. Parce-que si certains jours j’ai eu un peu de mal à trouver ‘la photo”, il y a eu d’autres moments où j’ai hésité entre plusieurs clichés.
Toutes les photos de ce projet ont été prises avec l’objectif Xf35mm f2 sur le Fujifilm X-T2 et retouchées avec l’application VSCO mobile sur l’iPad ou sur l’iPhone. Dans cette troisième partie, la photo du chat a été retouchée avec Lightroom sur l’iMac.
De plus en plus de photographes utilisent l’iPad comme outil professionnel dans leur pratique. Personnellement, je ne me vois pas utiliser uniquement une tablette dans mon travail. Même si cet outil est de plus en plus puissant et pratique, certains verrouillages et blocages dans l’OS m’agacent énormément. Mais pour les petits projets comme celui-là, la tablette et l’application VSCO Mobile sont vraiment de très bons outils. Le seul gros manque et défaut que je pourrais trouver à VSCO serait peut-être la retouche locale que l’on trouve sur les logiciels “pro” que j’utilise sur l’iMac.
Voilà, ce projet est terminé, le livre est parti à l’impression, et je peux clôturer en disant encore une fois que cette focale de 50mm est celle qui me correspond le plus.
MALLORCA
Sixth day of quarantine, finally my worries were unfounded. The symptoms I had were just those of angina.
After a week confined “thanks” to my brother and his wife who contracted COVID-19 (but who have no major complications at the moment) and with whom I had been in contact, I am staying at home for week more with this angina.
I must admit that it will be very difficult for me to return to work with the risks that we take at my workplace.
We are asked to remain confined but to continue going to work. Doctors are sounding the alarm again and again, and the government is calling us lazy. Those who decide the fate of the employees are very much at home in front of the computer, and the employees are treated like cannon fodder.
The government is having a dangerous double talk and I hope it will be held accountable at the end of it all ...
In the meantime I take this opportunity to sort through my Lightroom library and finish the photographic work that I am late, like these two books that have been waiting for months ...
I have just put online in the PLACES section of the website the gallery on the trip to Mallorca that we had made with family last year. Due to circumstances, the photos have been left out for too long and I can now look at them again.
Stay at home as much as possible, take care of yourself, enjoy this "break" in your crazy life rhythm and dream of after …
Sixième jour de quarantaine, finalement mes inquiétudes n’étaient pas fondées. Les symptômes que j’avais étaient juste ceux d’une angine.
Après une semaine confiné “grâce” à mon frère et sa femme qui ont contracté le COVID-19 (mais qui n’ont pas de grosses complications pour le moment) et avec qui j’avais été en contact, je reste à la maison une semaine de plus avec cette angine.
Je dois avouer qu’il va m’être bien compliqué de retourner travailler avec les risques que nous prenons sur mon lieu de travail.
On nous demande de rester confinés mais de continuer à aller travailler. Les médecins tirent la sonnette d’alarme encore et encore, et le gouvernement nous traite de fainéants. Ceux qui décident du sort des petits salariés sont bien tranquilles confinés chez eux devant l’ordinateur, et les petits salariés sont traités comme de la chair à canon.
Le gouvernement tient un double discours dangereux et j’espère qu’il devra rendre des comptes à la fin de tout ça …
En attendant j’en profite pour faire le tri dans ma bibliothèque Lightroom et terminer le travail photographique que j’ai en retard, comme ces deux livres qui attendent depuis des mois …
Je viens de mettre en ligne dans la section PLACES du site la galerie sur le voyage à Majorque que nous avions fait en famille l’année dernière. Les circonstances ont fait que les photos sont restées trop longtemps de côté et que j’arrive maintenant à les regarder de nouveau.
Restez chez vous autant que possible, prenez soin de vous, profitez de cette “pause” dans votre rythme de vie de fous et rêvez à après …
X-T2 | XF35mm F2 | XF23mm F1.4 | XF14mm F2.8
50/50 PROJECT | PART TWO
My project is 2/3 of it and I always take as much pleasure in constantly watching the world and life in 50mm.
It is sometimes difficult to be creative every day and not be redundant in the shots but it is part of the challenge.
The final straight line is launched… we'll see you in 16 days.
All photos were taken with the Xf35mm f2 lens on the Fujifilm X-T2 and edited with the VSCO mobile application on the iPad or iPhone except the self-portrait which was edited with Lightroom.
Mon projet en est aux 2/3 et je prends toujours autant de plaisir à regarder en permanence le monde et la vie en 50mm.
C’est quelquefois difficile d’être créatif tous les jours et de ne pas être redondant dans les prises de vues mais cela fait partie du défi.
La dernière ligne droite est lancée… on se retrouve dans 16 jours.
Toutes les photos ont été prises avec l’objectif Xf35mm f2 sur le Fujifilm X-T2 et retouchées avec l’application VSCO mobile sur l’iPad ou sur l’iPhone excepté l’autoportrait qui a été retouché avec Lightroom.
TURNTABLE
X-T2 | XF35mm F2
50/50 PROJECT | PART ONE
I've been thinking about this little project for a few months : 50 days with a 50mm.
The idea is not mine. It comes from photographer Bert Stephani who, in September, launched this challenge on Instagram. He had already done it 10 years ago. Another photographer, Jonas Rask, immediately followed him in this project. They both posted one photo a day on Instagram for 50 days. Each shot was taken with a lens with a focal length equivalent to 50mm on a 24x36.
For 17 days, I have followed their example and I post a photo every night on my Instagram story.
Photography is not my job, it's just a passion. And even if I always have a camera in my bag, I very often do not take it out for several days. This challenge will allow me to have a more regular practice with my favorite focal. I'm only about a third of this little project and I don't know if I'll get to the end, but all I know is that for the moment, I like what is coming out of it.
The first 17 photos are there, all taken with the Xf35mm f2 lens on the Fujifilm X-T2 and edited with the VSCO mobile application on the iPad or iPhone.
Cela fait quelques mois déjà que je pense à ce petit projet : 50 jours avec un 50mm.
L’idée n’est pas de moi. Elle vient du photographe Bert Stephani qui, au mois de septembre, s’est lancé ce défi sur Instagram. Il l’avait déjà réalisé il y a 10 ans. Un autre photographe, Jonas Rask , l’a aussitôt suivi dans ce projet. Ils ont tout deux posté une photo par jour sur Instagram durant 50 jours. Chaque cliché a été pris avec un objectif d’une focale équivalente à 50mm sur un 24x36.
Depuis 17 jours, j’ai suivi leur exemple et je poste une photo tous les soirs dans ma story Instagram.
La photographie n’est pas mon métier, c’est juste une passion. Et même si j’ai en permanence un appareil photo dans mon sac, il m’arrive très souvent de ne pas le sortir durant plusieurs jours. Ce défi va me permettre d’avoir une pratique plus régulière avec ma focale préférée.
Je n’en suis qu’au tiers de ce petit projet et je ne sais pas si j’arriverai au bout, mais tout ce que je sais c’est que pour le moment, j’aime ce qui s’en dégage.
Les 17 premières photos sont là, toutes prises avec l’objectif Xf35mm f2 sur le Fujifilm X-T2 et retouchées avec l’application VSCO mobile sur l’iPad ou sur l’iPhone.
TEMPORARY
Sometimes life is a great plunge into the unknown. And it’s very strange when it’s the first time you dive at 38…
There is a lot of panic. Why ? Why am I here ? How ?
What is this new place called « provisory » ?
And then we try as best we can to get our bearings, we are looking for new habits, new landmarks. We find more or less, especially less.
So we try to find things that have been obtained hang up, objects that we know, smells. And then we think about after. We are trying to think about where to find « definitive ». And especially on wonder if it really exists…
« Come on, this is all temporary. »
But temporary, is it long ?
And then tomorrow, what is tomorrow ?
Parfois la vie est un grand plongeon dans l’inconnu. Et c’est très étrange quand c’est à 38 ans la première fois qu’on plonge…
Il y a beaucoup de panique. Pourquoi ? Pourquoi je suis là ? Comment ?
Quel est ce nouveau lieu appelé « provisoire » ?
Et puis on essaye tant bien que mal de prendre ses marques, on se cherche de nouvelles habitudes, de nouveaux repères. On en trouve plus ou moins, surtout moins.
Alors on essaye de trouver des choses auxquelles se raccrocher, des objets qu’on connaît, des odeurs. Et puis on pense à après. On essaye de réfléchir où peut bien se trouver « définitif ». Et surtout on se demande s’il existe vraiment…
« Allez va, tout ceci est temporaire. »
Mais temporaire, c’est long ?
Et puis demain, c’est quoi demain ?
X-T2 | XF35mm F2
THE DAY BEFORE
X-T2 | XF23mm F1.4