A Vincent Mounier Photography Blog
Breathless
March 11, 2025
A year ago exactly, Marie and I were wrapping up the South of France tour, perched in our Vence pied-à-terre as I melancholically embraced my tristesse of leaving the Mediterranean shimmer behind.
So much has happened since, yet so little. As someone very smart was just commenting, it just seems like each new year weighs a little heavier. I still look up to the year-long hike with great delight, but I swear that the backpack of life is harder to lift off the ground and ...
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Having Some Fun
February 25, 2025
Near Montauk last weekend, I watched the playful seaside banter of a family of deer tremendously enjoying their beach time and the waves. This was through a long telephoto lens and once they had come closer, they kept a respectful distance but it was charming to see the animals having such a blast on an early morning...
The playful bunch
Up for Adoption
February 22, 2025
In New York City, household items and clothing fallen out of grace are left on the sidewalk for adoption. One person's reject is another person's catch.
Rock Lobster! (In B-52's Fred Schneider's voice)
Fall in Winter
February 12, 2025
This has been a much snowier winter than usual. But February vegetation is bleak against the snow, so infrared photography allows me to bring funky fall colors back to the world.
The unofficial dog field
Almost a bonsai
Different light
Daytime moonrise
Ivy has never looked so good
Feeding the Hungry
January 30, 2025
Most of us have a compulsive need to feed simpler lifeforms. It feels good, it's easy and sometimes the right thing to do.
If only we were that good with our own kind's hunger.
The bread flies
Montauk Lighthouse
January 27, 2025
Speaking of Montauk, here are the many faces of the lighthouse in as many different lights and weather conditions.
The Montauk Lighthouse
Fata Morgana
January 26, 2025
The offshore wind farm of Vineyard Wind, south of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. Shot from Montauk some seventy miles away as the seagull flies.
Fata Morgana
And then clearer air, on a different day
Daily Snapshot - City Night
January 22, 2025
A neighborhood slice of evening life, pre-holidays.
Moody
Daily Snapshot - The Gull
January 19, 2025
"Let's take a picture of the gull," I muttered to myself while shooting birds at Jamaica Bay, just across from our largest airport. "No sir, that's JFK," the bird patronized.
... Ok, you had to be there.
On approach
Fast food
Daily Snapshot - Silhouettes
January 18, 2025
Because sometimes, the only warm colors are traffic lights.
A pale city
Daily Snapshot - Dawn
January 12, 2025
And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a far green country under a swift sunrise.
J.R.R. Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings
A swift sunrise