Mother’s Day Photoshoot on the French Riviera
Have you thought about honouring yourself as a Mother? We, as mums, always take photos of our children and are rarely in the photos ourselves.
Let’s document your motherhood as we inch closer to Mother’s Day which will take place on June 4th this year. Beach, park, a flower field near your home. Any place works to take a snapshot in time of your motherhood journey.
Biot et les templiers
After nine years without the festival, 2023 took us back to the XIIIth century for the 7th edition of Biot et Les Templiers. This small hilltop village is famous for its history dating back to 154 BC, and the Templars are a huge part of it.
The weekend of March 31-April 2 marked the return of the festival, and our village welcomed over 50,000 visitors over these three days. I took the first two days of the event to just wander around and enjoy this journey through history, filled with knight battles, birds of pray displays, medieval entertainment and rustic markets.
The light straight out of photographer’s dreams
Visiting Lake Como in the off season is an experience in itself, without the usual summer crowds and the milder temperatures. Picking up my camera and getting THE shot after THE shot was so easy, and the reason is that mid season light.
Staying near Varenna and hopping the main three tourist towns on Lake Como on the regular ferries was so fun and rewarding, as I had to do very minimal edits to my Italian photos. The architecture, the nature, and, did I mention, the LIGHT, my camera roll was very happy.
Midday portrait session
I consider myself a professional at taking photos in the midday light, the light that every photographer I know would tell you THE worst you can have. I simply never had much choice so had to adapt to this light, and in all honesty I don’t hate it.
Weekend in Marseille
As a new person in France, there are still so many places for me to explore and photograph here. And I have ticked another city on my must-visit list last weekend. Marseille! I’ve heard so many things about it, and how busy it gets in the summer, that a weekend trip in February worked perfectly.
Fast paced action photography
My husband and I play tennis in our village of Biot. I’m more of a beginner, as in I’m happy if I can send a ball over the net, and Oli is playing regularly on a decent level.
The other day I brought my camera to one of our games, and whilst he was practicing his serve I took this as an opportunity to work on my shutter speed action. Here is how it turned out.
Fête du mimosa, Biot 2023
February is officially THE yellow month. First we have mimosa, closely followed by Fête du Citron in Menton with a huge carnival and all the lemons!
But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Mimosa is still pretty much the only talk of the town and Biot pulled all the stops to celebrate this glorious yellow season. Here’s a quick recap of what your friendly local French Riviera photographer (me) captured during the Fête du Mimosa in Biot.
Mimosa Season on the Côte d’azur
January-February are known as the mimosa season on the French Riviera. Starting in mid-January you can see pops of yellow around Nice and then moving east, around Mandelieu de la Napoule and Tanneron entire rolling hills are being covered with golden trees.
I love yellow! It’s joyful, sunny and positive, and blooming mimosa brings so much brightness and colour to us right in the middle of winter.
Saint Valentine’s Day floral photoshoot in Biot
Preparations for the Valentine’s Day in Grönt’s floral studio on the French Riviera have started in early January. This included pre-planning, choosing the concept and the flower variety, and, of course, organising the commercial photoshoot to begin the social media promotions as early as the middle of January.
Together with the plant stylist we picked the locations in the studio’s town of Biot and set out to shoot the different options: close-ups, combinations, with and without the maker (to play with the storytelling in the future social media posts), different light, backdrops and moods. Here is how it turned out.
French Riviera photographer in Normandy
My family-in-law lives in Normandy, and so we go there at least twice a year to see them. Despite the huge difference in pretty much everything, but the French language, between Côte d’Azur and the Camembert country, I really love it there.
I don’t get to shoot moody conditions a lot on the Riviera. One can’t complain of course when we have sunny weather almost all the time, but I enjoy switching things up from time to time. Here are a few photos I took during our Christmas trip to the North coast.