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2007

May ’07

I’ve played with the Google logo to celebrate the curiosity and exhaustiveness of this company : The Borg.
“Somewhen” this month (I don’t remember the exact date), this website celebrates its 10^th birthday. Drop me a line if you want to celebrate in Brest…
Sydney Opera House and Bondi beach.
An echeveria, with small plants and flowers.
A masting crane and the sun in Brest downtown.
Spring flowers : flowering currant, pear tree flowers, a flower carpet and daffodils.

April ’07

M. Chat on a sidewalk in Bourges.

March ’07

To celebrate its 75^th birthday (it was opened on March 19^th, 1932), several photos of the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
The Spit bridge and a house in the northern part of Sydney harbour.
More photos of blue tits on my balcony.

February ’07

Greenfinches and sparrows on my balcony.
Thanks to a visitor of the site, a photo of M. Chat in Geneva.
The Gap in Sydney harbour.
A blue tit and a robin feeding on my balcony.

January ’07

Sun rays over le Goulet in Brest.
Houses in Sydney harbour.
A crane and a pontoon in Woolloomooloo bay.
Circular Quay and details of Sydney Opera House.
Sydney skyline at sunset, available as desktop wallpaper.
A sunset in Camp Cove beach, in Sydney, available as desktop wallpaper.
Sydney CBD at night, seen from a revolving restaurant.
The Opera House and the silhouette of the Harbour Bridge seen from a ferry in Sydney harbour.

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2006

December ’06

Beacons in Sydney harbour.
Teasels on the sea shore.
Photos of the Corsen cape, including a sunset.

November ’06

Two photos of Sydney Opera House.
Another page of my Australian travel diary, Cradle Mountain National Park and the road leading to Devonport.
One more page of my Australian travel diary, Mount Field National Park and the west coast of Tasmania.
A black currawong with its yellow piercing eye.
Thanks to David Nelson, I have identified an insect I met in a garden.
The end of the walk around the lake in Cradle mountain, in the rain, along a wooden path, among the moss, lichens and a few blooming banksia.
The first photos of Cradle mountain, with its summit in the clouds, and of lake Dove, with the vegetation of its shores in the rain.
A sunset over the arsenal of Brest, available as a desktop wallpaper.

October ’06

New photos of the common seals in Océanopolis, including the baby born this summer.
European garden spiders, one hunting, the other waiting.
A small movie of The sultan’s elephant & the little giantess.
The second parade of The sultan’s elephant & the little giantess.
The first parade of The sultan’s elephant & the little giantess.
The end of the first morning of The sultan’s elephant & the little giantess.
The start of my series of photos of The sultan’s elephant & the little giantess in Calais.

September ’06

A panorama of le Goulet in Brest harbour, its cliffs and forts.
A canoe ride on lake Rosebery, a dam lake.
Ocean beach, on the west coast of Tasmania.
A veil of fog.
Nelson falls.
A green caterpillar.
The panorama seen from Donaghy’s hill lookout.
A blanket of fog in a field.

August ’06

An edible crab and some hermit crabs in a waterhole on the beach.
During the same ride, we met dolphins and grey seals.
During a sea ride outside of Brest harbour, we saw the pointe Saint-Mathieu from the sea and met the Amerigo Vespucci.
The tall trees walk in Mount Field national park and its cascades.
In Océanopolis, the common seals and their baby, tropical rays, a burrfish and a new photo of the lionfish.
In a waterhole, a young fish and sea anemones.
A european shag, hunting and drying in the sun in the Dalbosc cove.
The Dalbosc cove.
One page more of my Australian travel diary, cape Raoul and Hobart.
Hobart by night : old buildings, including a pub, and a brick chimney.
The sheoaks of cape Raoul and their fruits.
End of the cape Raoul walk : the cliffs, the edge of the plateau and its jagged columns, clouds landing on the cape.
Photos of Cape Raoul : the cliffs, the plateau and its reflection (available as a desktop wallpaper), and the adjacent capes.
A porcupine fish and several other tropical fish in Océanopolis.
A red lionfish, a bullhead shark and a sea robin in Océanopolis.
A john dory and some gilt heads in Océanopolis.

July ’06

A gentoo penguin in Océanopolis.
Common seals, including a recently born baby, in Océanopolis.
An unidentified insect.
A rose after the rain.
Butterflies of the garden : a peacock butterfly and a small tortoiseshell, a red admiral, a swallowtail, a cabbage white, a brimstone and a tiger moth, and a hummingbird hawk-moth.
A herring gull interested in my sandwich.
The Men ruz lighthouse in Ploumanac’h is available as a desktop wallpaper, with new resolutions (1440×900 and 1680×1050). I’ve also added these resolutions for two recent desktops, the waves in Trégana and the white flowers, I’ll add these resolutions as time goes for the old desktops if the original images allow it.
The pink granite blocks in Ploumanac’h, the customs footpath and the Men ruz lighthouse.
A yellow rose at various stages during its bloom, and a succulent flower.
Photos of the waves on Trégana beach including one available as desktop wallpaper.
Pink and white star-shaped flowers growing on cliffs.
Honeybees and other insects in a shrub with blue flowers.
Goldfishes, a white and a yellow one, and a red, white and black one.
A bumblebee exploring pink flowers.
A gull in flight.
A black cat enjoying the sun on a lawn.
A green insect.
Photos of magnolia, muscari, a bud with leaves.
Very small white flowers available as desktop wallpaper.

June ’06

Pink flowers backlit or in the light, a daffodil, apple tree flowers.
Tree buds against the blue sky.
More rooms of the Challain castle : the chapel, the basement, the kitchen, a bedroom and the framework.
Several rooms of the Challain castle : the dining room, the smoking-room, a library, a bedroom and some stuffed animals.

May ’06

The entrance and the staircase of the Challain castle.
The Challain castle, its park and its pavilion.
Berberis flowers and a robin.

April ’06

The big portal-crane and the castle of Brest.
Not really a redesign of the site, just an incremental evolution…

March ’06

Photos of Brest harbour.
Two graffitis, a guitar player (details) and another with a manga theme.
A european shag and a meadow pipit in Brest harbour.
With the arrival of a new digital camera, I’ve decided to publish my photos as I take them, we’ll see if I catch up one day (!) by also publishing my archives. As a start, hints of spring in the plants page, with buds, rosemary, narcissus and gorse flowers, and a ladybird.
My favourite restaurants in Brest
First photo of a series on Cape Raoul.
A few photos of the Port Arthur penitentiary and one of the Wielangta forest.
Photos of a black swan, a koala, two parrots and an eagle.
Photos of kangaroos, and one of native hens.
In the Jobs page, a link to a new website for the Freediving Section of the GMAP diving club in Brest, which I’ve recently put online.

February ’06

Photos of Australian birds, galahs (cockatoos) and laughing kookaburra (kingfisher).
Two photos of M. Chat in Nantes, sent by a visitor.
Photos of wombats.
A photo of a Tasmanian devil, photos of Cape Barren geese.
Photos of echidnas and tawny frogmouth.
The fifth page of my Australian travel diary, on the east coast of Tasmania and the Tasman peninsula.
A fairy penguin.
Photos of Freycinet National Park, including Wineglass bay and a panorama.
Photos of Friendly Beaches, including desktop wallpaper available for download

January ’06

A new page about Tasmania, starting with photos from Launceston.
The fourth page of my Australian travel diary, our first day in Tasmania.
New M. Chat sightings by visitors.
A third page of my Australian travel diary, including night photos.

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2005

December ’05

The last few days this site has moved (a change in the hosting provider, I chose Plexiweb), I hope this didn’t cause trouble. I leave my other sites at Ouvaton, their service is very good, but the many visits (thanks!) required a hosting package with more traffic.
Second page of my Australian travel diary, with stories linked to the Narita page.
A page about Asia, with photos of the Naritasan-Shinjoshi temples.

November ’05

First page of my 2003 Australian travel diary, with photos taken from the plane above Siberia.
The Sillon de Bretagne, a high-rise Nantes.
The castle of Fougères and its many towers.

October ’05

A grey heron on the banks of the Vilaine in Rennes.
A pink sunrise in Rennes.
A panorama of Rennes downtown at sunrise.

September ’05

A rainbow over Rennes downtown.
Light rays in the mist.
Perros–Guirec harbour coloured pink at sunrise.
Christmas light games in Le Touquet.
July 14^th fireworks in Rennes.
The Rochebonne beach in Saint Malo on a winter day.

August ’05

Perros–Guirec harbour before sunrise.
Les Horizons in Rennes in the mist.
Two sunsets seen from my window, in the haze or under the clouds.
The transatlantic wharf in Cherbourg turned into a sea-focused exhibition, the Cité de la Mer.
A new page for Brest and its surroundings, with a few photos to start with, including ships and the harbour.
A blue and pink sky just before sunrise, seen from my window.
A panorama of the walled city of Saint Malo.

July ’05

The facade of Les Horizons in Rennes.
A grunting monster graffiti.
Sunrises in Perros–Guirec harbour, one mauve (available as desktop wallpaper) and the other changing as time passes.
Light games in Perros–Guirec harbour.
Autumn sunrises in Rennes.
Red moon and Rennes city lights.
Summer sunrises in Rennes.
Photos of the Ardennes wood.
Dinard and its villas.
The two Bés in Saint Malo under a blue sky, and the fort National.
A sunrise in Rennes, first orange and white, then orange, seen from my window.
A cow-parsnip unfolding its flowers.
The cathedral of Amiens lit-up and coloured by night.

June ’05

Reflexions and ripples on the beach.
A black-headed gull and footprints in the sand.
Golden clouds on the Opal coast.
A misty sunrise in Rennes.
An orange moon.
Categories for the desktop wallpapers.
Two new desktop wallpapers, a red and violet sky, and the lights in a tunnel.
Rennes downtown by night.
Sunset lights on Rennes buildings.
Ships in Saint Malo harbour.
The two Bés in Saint Malo.
Photos of Fort La Latte.
New photos of the pink granite coast, including the Sept îles and Perros–Guirec harbour under a white sun ray.

May ’05

A cormorant in the sun.
A new page for the pink granite coast, with new photos to start a series.
The curves of the facade of les Horizons.
A seagull on a blue sky background.
Blurred city lights.
Mallard ducklings.

April ’05

Lights in the tunnel of the subway in Rennes.
The canal and river in Rennes by night.
Les Horizons by night.
Sunrays.
Flower photos (primroses, heather and dandelion).
Apple and quince blossom photos.
A Corean pavilion in the Jardin d’Acclimatation.
Paris Hôtel de Ville by night.
Fluffy chicken.

March ’05

Photos of a swan.
New M. Chat photos, one in the Montparnasse railway station, the other at the crossing of rue de Rennes and boulevard Raspail.
Light games.
Another graffiti of the boy with a helmet.
An equinox sunset on the quais in Rennes.
A graffiti of a boy with a helmet.
A ground angle shot of the Horizons in Rennes.
The sun emerges from under a cloud.

February ’05

A graffiti on a cycling lane.
The sun lands on the horizon.
Clouds in a windy sky.
The rising moon.
Update of the Jobs page.
Moved to Brest.

January ’05

A red and violet sunset.

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2004

December ’04

Best wishes for 2005.
A list of my favourite restaurants.
An enamel fountain in the halles centrales (central market) in Rennes, and a black cat graffiti also in Rennes.
A sunrise caught on the highway.
The reflection of a sunrise.
The end of the snowy photos series, with a Christmas feeling.
Vegetation under snow.
A M. Chat icon.

November ’04

A walk in unspoilt snow.
Two photos of details caught after a snow fall: strange shapes of the snow on a grid, and the print of the wings of a bird.
A snow desktop wallpaper.
The first photos in a series about Jura in winter.
Two desktop wallpapers featuring the M. Chat graffiti.
Dinan harbour and medieval city.
A sunrise.
Photos of the Pouliguen harbour still water.
A detail of the facade of the Saint Georges swimming pool.

October ’04

Two photos of Nantes, one of the Loire door of the castle, the other of the cathedral.
A flaring sunrise over Perros–Guirec harbour.
M. Chat in the Montparnasse train station : photo of a graffiti and kaleidoscope of details.
New photos in the plants section : light rays, a spider and a cauliflower…
The site map is now split in several small files.
An orange crescent during a sunset.
A sunrise over Perros–Guirec harbour.
Two gargoyles.
Three new Mont Saint Michel bay photos.
Two new M. Chat from Nantes.
A yellow sunset.
A new image for the header of the photos style of the site.
The sun casting the shadow of a cloud.
A grey sky tinted with orange.
A very red or orange sunset.
A new quotation.
Photos from l’Aber Wrac’h, including a panorama and a desktop wallpaper.
A desktop wallpaper from the Belle-Île series, with reflections in the clear water.

September ’04

Photos taken in Trébeurden, the Milliau island, pink clouds and the Bihit cape at dusk.
All the desktop wallpapers are now available for a 1280×1024 resolution, I’ve added a a hint of the visitor’s preferences.
The moon by day.
The last photos of the Belle-Île series, with photos taken inland, including panoramas taken from the lighthouse.
Zeppelin and Beluga photos taken at Le Bourget air show.
8 photos of the coastline of Belle-Île, creeks, cliffs, transparent or blue-green water…
More Belle-Île photos with the Sauzon harbour.

August ’04

First photos of Belle-Île-en-Mer, the ferry leaving the harbour at night.
In Niort, bronze dragons in s street, and a close-up of a waterfall (available as desktop wallpaper). Water photos taken along the Sèvre Niortaise.
Multiple small sun rays shining through dark clouds.
A little tree sucker fighting the asphalt.
A Hector Guimard subway entrance detail.
Four more M. Chat photos taken in the Montparnasse train station.
Photos of green leaves rimmed with white.
Modifications to the Blue Maze style.
Two new M. Chat photos in the Montparnasse railway station in Paris.
Photo of a sunrise over the highway.
A silo by night desktop wallpaper.

July ’04

The last page of my australian travel diary, 9 - Back in Sydney.
A new template to export iPhoto galleries with a square thumbnails presentation.
Half the desktop wallpapers are now available in 1280×1024.
Photos of the Seine and Marne confluent during a flood.
7^th and 8^th pages of my australian travel diary, 7–Aquarium and Uluru and 8–Red center, with photos of an emu in close-up, a barbecue in a red center station, of Uluru (one aerial, the other from the ground) and of Kata Tjuta (aerial view).

June ’04

An addition to my favourites : motion, be it dancing, freediving or monofin swimming.
Update of the photo gallery BetterHTMLExport template (visual improvements, slideshow option, import of the custom tags in the BetterHTMLExport interface).
Two more pages of my Australian travel diary : 5–Sydney harbour and 6–Mystery flight, with Gold Coast photos : beach, waves, jumping and smiling dolphins, views of The Rocks and Circular Quay seen from the Harbour Bridge.
I’ve made changes on the grey photos CSS stylesheet, which is now used by default when you first visit the site. Tell me about any display glitches you might experience.

May ’04

I start putting my Australian travel diary online (1–Flying - 2–First days in Sydney - 3–Ferries and Art Gallery - 4–Penrith and Blue Mountains), with photos to illustrate it : the dry land of the Great Sandy Desert seen from a plane, Balmoral beach, a panorama seen from the Centerpoint tower (southeast, south, west, north and northeast), Rushcutters bay, the Chinese Garden of Friendship (dragon wall, waterfall, round, octagonal, archway-shaped openings), the Harbour Bridge, two ibis, Sydney hospital, a joey, two emus, two echidnas, some goannas.
A beaming sunset shot at various stages (2, 3, 4), including one you can download as a desktop wallpaper.
A blue washed out graph.
A red sun.
A close-up on the bark of a tree.

April ’04

Two ducks.
New M. Chat locations thanks to visitors of this site.
Update of the recently read books.

March ’04

Photos of the Carlsberg brewery in Copenhagen.
Two photos of one of the Longchamps ponds in Rennes.
A BetterHTMLExport template to export iPhoto galleries with a CSS layout.
Photos of a passage in Copenhagen.

February ’04

A RSS feed is available to get news from this site, as well as explanation on how to use it.
A graph desktop wallpaper.
Buttons created with CSS.
Copenhagen harbour.

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2003

December ’03

A facade in Copenhagen.

November ’03

Blue Maze look The Blue Maze style of the site evolves.

One more thing in the Jobs and Movies pages.

The first Copenhagen photos.

October ’03

A new sunset.

September ’03

The St Georges swimming pool in Rennes.

A pillow book.

Two water photos.

A sad girl graph.

August ’03

Dive look A new style called Dive! for the web site.

The book I’m currently reading, and those I read recently.

A cloud photo, two snowy ones.

My first photos of the M. Chat graffiti.

July ’03

A frozen desktop wallpaper.

Other photos of the Horizons building in Rennes.

New Brittany photos, in the pink granite coast page and St Malo night photos in the Emerald Coast page.

June ’03

A new photo page, about graffiti.

My CSS Zen Garden submission was accepted :)

Orange clouds you can download as a desktop wallpaper.
Perros–Guirec harbour under the clouds.
Misty morning roses photos.
Between September, ’98, and May, ’03, about 60 000 visits on the home page of the site.

May ’03

Grey photos look A new look for the whole web site, but you can switch back to the ‘original’ style if you like it better, and get info about how it’s done.

Website screenshots in the jobs page.
New quotations here and there, new links.

Photos of the Menier chocolate factory in Noisiel.
A new Vilaine by night desktop wallpaper, a suggestion from a visitor : please ask for your favourite photos, it doesn’t go fast, but in the end it happens.

March ’03

Ducey bridge photos.
New architecture images.

February ’03

New pages in the Jobs section : a CD-rom about a company’s new building, design and urban furniture images.
A new page for the Paris area architecture and buildings, including a gothic facade.

January ’03

An “about this site” page.
Photos of the Boulogne-Dover hovercrafts.

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2002

December ’02

Photos of the Hambye abbey.

November ’02

A water elevator in Folkestone.

October ’02

A page about the accessibility and help of this site, and the features that go with it.

Photos of Ducey castle.

September ’02

Blue Maze look A new design for some of the pages.

Update of the Favourites page, with a page for the links and another for the books, and two new movies.

August ’02

Update of the jobs page.

April ’02

Photos of a dune in Nature.
New Mont Saint Michel photos.
A set of MacOs X icons with a cat theme.

March ’02

New photos of skies with a new desktop wallpaper.
New photos of water and of Rennes by night.
Fred’s site has moved to its own location, the Fragmoscaphe.

February ’02

A new page with photos of Kew Garden’s glasshouses.

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2001

December ’01

Two new desktop wallpaper.
New photos of Donges in the Nocturnal page.
New links in the Favourite page.
The snowy photo of the Horizons was selected by the Bretagne.com website for its virtual exhibition "Brittany under the snow". It will remain there until February 2002.

November ’01

New photos of the Emerald Coast, with ships from the Cutty Sark race.
A new desktop wallpaper.

October ’01

New photos of Rennes and Amiens in the Architecture section.
The web site has moved to Ouvaton, a cooperative hosting service.
I took advantage of that to spend a lot of time brushing up the pages and adding captions to the photos. The site is now using CSS stylesheets for its layout (this redesign will slowly propagate to all the pages).
There’s also a desktop wallpaper page allowing quick access to all the photos I’ve turned into screen backgrounds.

March ’01

Photos from the Blue Mountains.

February ’01

Photos from Sydney harbour.

January ’01

Photos from Sydney.

Golden web awards

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2000

December ’00

Australian vegetation.

Liens utiles gave this site a Golden Link in December ’00

November ’00

First photos from Australia, the animals.
The site is split in two, the wasteland has moved.

October ’00

Nantes photos in “Architecture”.
One more photo in Architecture and Skies and new photos in Water.

September ’00

As I’m looking for a job, I’ve updated the Jobs page.
A site search button.

August ’00

Here are the holidays, time to take care of the site :
New photos in Saint Nazaire and Skies.
I found out that most of the scans I had were quite bad, so I rescanned most of the photos I had added between 1997-1999. Check this out, it’s a real improvement!
For those of you with bandwidth, there are more quicktime movies and mpgs : Mon Bestiaire Ordinaire, La Poste : Euro 2002.
New photos in Architecture, Water and Nocturnal.

July ’00

A Site map, graphic changes.
Wasteland-related photos.

June ’00

More photos of Brittany, sounds in the wasteland.

May ’00

Photos of the Emerald Coast, more colour photos in the wasteland.
Water photos.

January ’00

Desktop wallpaper from Jersey, Skies and Donges.
Update of the Jobs page.
The first Architecture photos.
A passage hypothesis in the wasteland.

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1999

November ’99

More Brittany and Jersey photos.

September ’99

Some Sky photos, photos of the Caligari scale model.

August ’99

My early Nocturnal photos.
Now you can use a form to send me a message.
I’ve cut the Favourites page, put new links and more movies

July ’99

A little bit of cleaning among the links, some were really outdated.
Kazaam! This very page is born.
I’ve also worked on the navigation among Quicktime VRs.
I added four Quicktime VRs of the wasteland, this could draw attention towards this otherwise “secret” place…

June ’99

Passions becomes Photos and includes photos taken in Brittany

May ’99

Some photos of Saint Nazaire harbour.
Small animations in : La Poste, CeeOn, Le Bestiaire

January ’99

Wanadoo Top 98 This site made it to the Wanadoo Top 10 in September 1998.
It was chosen among the 1998 Top 10 sites in January 1999.

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1997

May ’97

Creation of the site.

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