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You may have noticed that a lot of the photography I have been posting in the past few weeks has been taken at night.  I love this form of images, the city lights and long exposures produce a very different image when compared to the same scene taken during daylight.  One of the reasons for my use of night photography recently has come from necessity because I have spent the last three weeks on the road working in Hungary, Texas and Le Castellet and by the time I have finished my work in the media centre the sun has set.   This shot ofToulon was taken using a 4.3s shutter speed at an aperature of f4 with the ISO set to 200. These two images on this page were taken yesterday evening.  The first (above) is of the Toulon harbour front and the second (below) is of the hilltop town of La Cadiere D'Azur near to La Castellet.   Both images were taken using long exposures on the Fuji X100 and long exposures mean using a steady...

While at the recent official test for the FIA World Endurance Championship I received an invitation from Porsche AG to join their communications team and some key German journalists for dinner at a restaurant in La Cadière-d'Azur  about 20 minutes from the circuit Paul Ricard.  The village features lots of old narrow streets and tall stone buildings. I stopped to take some shots on the Fuji X100 with the ISO cranked up to 3200 to give me just enough of a shutter speed to record the dimly lit streets. Fuji X100 - 23mm f2 - 1/25 @ f2 - ISO3200 The village is on a hill top that overlooks a lot of the Bandol vineyards.The back of St-Andre Church built onto the cliff face The village still has 3 remaining medieval Gate Doors, which are the porte St-Jehan (built in January 1561), porte de la Colle and the porte Mazrin, in the ancient medieval walls. Two other older medieval buildings of the village are the Tour de l'Horloge with a 16th-century campanile and the...