"Puy people"

My book of photographs of the people I saw on my French walk last month has now arrived from Blurb. It's in the small square format I've used before - but somehow the images seem rather too poky this time round. It may be because I slurped the pictures direct from Adobe Lightroom into Blurb, rather than using Blurb's discreet BookSmart program: the Lightroom app. is that bit less flexible, I find.

I've since been working in a larger format for a book of all my various Puy landscapes. We shall see how that turns out - shortly: watch this space.

Meanwhile, you can preview "Puy people" in full online.

Feuilles lourdes

With friends staying the weekend, we were dropped at the end of the Stockwell lane this morning, and set off to walk home, via Coberley. The inch or two of snow that fell over the past few days had frozen, making walking easy on this windless morning, provided you avoided the icy patches: no mud, at least! But the real pleasure of being out today was to see trees glistening as if coated in caramel. Nature, in suspended animation! Hard to describe such rare beauty, and to capture it in a photograph: I had forgotten how necessary it is, in a snowy world, to stop down, to compensate for the glare. So, thank you, Lightroom!

(Today we are celebrating the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes.)