Freelance Photography : Bertrand Celce

Asia in Paris .

January 17 2004

Back to Paris : This is in the chinese quarter in the 13th arrondissement and chinese new year is the time. This was today , weather was grey but no rain . Was going to Tang store for a look and buy a few things . By the way , this photo has been made with a vintage digital camera bought in Tokyo : Victor GC-X1 ,it has an aspherical lens and can make JPG or uncompressed TIFF . Fotservis will be about " un regard sur le monde " , not only through portraits and landscapes shot when on the road , but also through a regular blog with pictures of daily life , wich is quite new for me , and will need some tries and adjustments . As soon as I get my archives , I'll load some more in the albums . Holy Russia with portraits of Nizhni Novgorod, DDR( pre-1989 East Germany ) with its atmosphere , FDJ youths ,and also North West Pacific US ,with mostly astounding landscapes , should come first . But others are in the waiting ... January 24 2004
Rain train in Tokyo , steaming on the pedestrian xing and the sidewalks ... In Paris , rain everyday in January . But today afternoon was a bright sunny day , and the air was washed and clean .

Tokyo first views .

You will not see my Tokyo pictures until a few months , takes some time to sort out what I shot there , so here is a glimpse of what will be posted then ...

Left , that may be in Omote Sando , Don't remember , and need the contact sheets to be sure . These two friends were going their way when I asked them a pic . Second is evening at Shinjuku , east exit where people meet . This young person was checking his email or something .This middle brightly colored woman with mike was trying to lure more customers into her Pachinko parlour , and that was between Okachimachi and Ueno .This blue soccer girl was seen in Harajuku , on the bridge to Meiji shrine , and this uniformed man was on a construction site near Shibuya . I had just been to the Daiso building in Shibuya just to find it closed and employees moving goods away . Too bad . I was on my way to Harajuku January 15 2004 For someone like me who never bought a car in France , except an old Citroen Ami 8 , I would consider doing it if that cute little car pictured in Kyoto in 2002 was available here ... When we first saw one , we were stunned by its design and ergonomics . If I remember , that was a yellow license plate , wich would mean in Japan lower taxes because of modest engine as for cc power . But we saw some in the traffic and it seemed powerful enough . Here is the thing :
This is called " Will Vi " and is made by Toyota .

First Day .

Today is the day ! I joined Typepad and took the very first steps for this adventure of our time : Create a website with pictures to show to the world , and eventually a blog with daily updates (weekly updates will do the job ) ... as a french photographer wanting to show his work , a photoblog was the right tool . It took some effort and patient information gathering for a non techie like me to consider to really do it ! Thank you to Mena and Ben Trott from Six Apart in San Mateo , California , who made this possible ... If you come to Paris , let me know ! It all began when I made some research for my 2003 trip to Tokyo . I was going alone , Benedicte could'nt come and I was anxious about finding my way in this big city . On a Lonely Planet forum , I had a question answered by an australian woman , Martine Cotton ,living in Japan and who had an interesting website-photoblog : frangipani.info/blog .We exchanged a few emails and planned to see each other in Tokyo . On her blog , she wrote one day that she was going "movable type" and that it was some kind of revolution for her website . I had never heard about movable type , so I did some research and found out the group , "Six Apart" behind this new feature . And Typepad , created by the same people , was there ... So , thanks to Martine that inadvertedly put me on Typepad path ! I met her in Tokyo with another australian with a website , Kimberley : 35degrees.com. Back from Japan , it was a matter of time till I joined Typepad ...I'll now focus , the next coming weeks , on how to edit , compose and arrange my pages . Expect some time to pass , till then . This picture to anounce the trip in Mother India , Rajasthan and portraits made in indian cities and streets ...

January 9 2004 . This website will be about photography . Photo archives and weblog will be photography oriented , with a world or travel flavour . It will be also about wine , wine tasting and vineyards in France as I will post pictures and comments about the french wine landscape . Look for the wine journal in the right column . As for pictures , I'm not fully digital yet , even if I acquired a used DSC in Akihabara (at Sofmap ) to begin with .I still prefer the convenience and reliability of traditional cameras , especially when I'm far from home .