Temporary friends: Notre Dame Cathedral and various cranes.

The nave vault inside the Notre-Dame Cathedral #icm

Tourists in Paris near Notre-Dame "Where are you guys from?" The question I didn't have time to ask. Any ideas?

Cité des Fleurs on Île de la Cité, Paris, I saw this woman with flowers the colour of the clothes she was wearing. I approached. She didn't speak French or English; I didn't speak Portuguese. She signed that it was OK for me to take her picture. My camera chose her flowers over her face. Obrigado!

On the way to the Boulangerie as bread is required and I see these lines in the sky...

The ginkgo in the neighbour's garden shining in the morning sunlight

Any Siberian Dog Would

Tonight there is a supermoon! This happens when the moon is at its perigee or closest to us in its egg-shaped orbit around the Earth. During a supermoon, it looks bigger and brighter than normal. If you usually grow hair on your back and howl at the full moon, tonight should be a biggie for you!

The exterior of the kitchen at Fontevraud Abbey

Sunset from behind a bush

I was trying to take a picture of an aeroplane flying into a cloud lit by the setting sun when this happened!

Fontevraud Abbey cloister #icm

Sunset over the Loire river from the Chaumont-sur-Loire castle

Paris view with Eiffel Tower and mosques

Cobwebs in the Morning Dew

Another from my pylon series

Cobwebs in the morning dew

Lime trees in the mist

I was given a personal tour of the Opéra Garnier in Paris yesterday, where 5000 people are employed. It seats 1500, but only 800 get a good view of the stage, which stretches back 50m. The fly loft is 40m high. 3 operas play in rotation, as singers cannot perform on consecutive evenings.

Surf's Up Capbreton

Sylvester, my twin, isn't allowed out much but when he does go out, he does it in style!

Funghi from this morning's shrooming #funghi

Fatma Hassona never left Gaza. She documented life under constant bombing by Israel. Her pictures show people, like herself, trying to survive in horrific conditions, exhibiting both her talent and her humanity.

I went to see this yesterday. It remains one of the most difficult and haunting films I've seen in a cinema. Sepideh Farsi's film consists mostly in a series of broken conversations filmed off her phone with a young photojournalist living in Gaza. A moving testament to Fatma Hassona's humanity.

Ways to use sunlight in the forest

I took this picture of a fallen tree this morning, about 120 years ago

Forest #icm

Leaf at my feet As the morning sun rises in the forest, bands of sunlight are projected on the ground. I spent the morning looking for things in these bands.

Photographers: Adobe is hiking its subscription for Lightroom by 50% next month. I can lock in my current plan by prepaying for a year at the current rate, or I can cancel and switch. Does anyone use a non-subscription alternative to Lightroom that offers a similar workflow? #adobe

When I saw thick mist this morning, I grabbed my camera and ran for the door. I staked out this pylon for about an hour. The sun was trying to shine through the mist, which produced this unusual glow!

This spider had a ball!

Pylons in the mist #icm

I went out in the mist this morning to take photos of my favourite pylon field. I spent an hour taking over 150 pictures of PYLONS IN THE MIST, yet this is my favourite. It's the rear windscreen of my car that I snapped when I got fed up and went for a pee...

Harvest Afters

Pylon pigeon #icm

Pile on the filters

Backlit morning meadow grass getting its due #icm

Detail of a 225 kV transmission pylon, showing a 12-unit glass suspension insulator string supporting the phase conductor. I tricked it up in Lightroom then put it through Nik 8 Color Efex to get the gold.

My Blair Witch moment in the forest yesterday #icm

I'd like to do a series on people in art galleries. We change when we go somewhere just to see. Here, I was waiting to go into Cezanne's studio, so a group of us waited in the garden outside. I was struck by this image of a waiting woman who seemed to be in perfect harmony with her surroundings.

Highly recommend "One Battle After Another". It's an extraordinary film. DiCaprio and Penn are standouts. Anderson masterfully exposes their moral ambiguity. Both prophetic and disturbing, it’s a demanding yet essential watch. If Penn doesn't win an Oscar for Lockjaw, There Will Be Blood!

Dead tree in the Courant d'Huchet, France

Forest Vision #icm #forest

Tree Trunk Revisited

Misty hills near Buoux

Anatomy of a Wave

black & white switchgrass

Trees in the garden outside Paul Cezanne's studio in Aix-en-Provence #icm #nature #phot0graphy

A rare example of the mythical Royal knitting machine!

A train passes