A Vincent Mounier Photography Blog
Daily Snapshot - City Night
January 22, 2025
A neighborhood slice of evening life, pre-holidays.
Moody
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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
Daily Snapshot - Shoreline, Up Close
January 11, 2025
It is tempting to stare at the horizon and pretend to be Captain Jack Sparrow, but since said horizon simply represents a limit beyond which we do not normally see, l never forget to glance at my feet, and peer through the opposite border of the macro world. So much to discover if one looks closely. Bubbles of all kinds particularly impress me. Here, the foam left inside a clam shell by a gentle wave.
Sea foam
Or this surprise when, having shot shells up close after th...
Daily Snapshot - Sunrise on Long Island
January 5, 2025
My fantastic Falcam TreeRoot, a lazy dragging shutter, and time to kill on a frigid morning.
Sunset in Montauk
Daily Snapshot - Prospect Park Sunset
January 3, 2025
Strolling through Prospect Park almost daily with a curious mind and hungry eyes, we get to witness its ever-changing moods. There will be many such snapshots here, from sunsets to snow and every fog patch in between.
This one from last night is taken in a very cinematic format Hasselblad refers to as XPan, from the film days of a camera that could shoot in 24x65mm format instead of the conventional 24x36mm.
The sun sets on Brooklyn
Here We Go Again
January 1, 2025
I have my fingers crossed very hard for 2025.
Sunrise on Long Island (shot a few months ago)
And Just Like That, It's Over
December 31, 2024
Needless to say, it's been a rough one, at home and abroad. I will not pile up adjectives and metaphors. Let's simply hope for a better 2025.
My wishes to you, dear broken world.
Prospect Park, late December 2024
The newspapers says, saysSay it's true, it's trueAnd we can break throughThough torn in twoWe can be one
U2 - New Year's Day
Peace
December 25, 2024
Peace on the Blue Marble and goodwill to all creatures inhabiting it, including, but not limited to, us monkeys.
Nkwe Pirelli celebrated by chasing ribbons through a forest of wrapping paper
There is no doubt about who owns the scene
It's already a blur
Daily Snapshot - First Snow Part 2
December 23, 2024
As the saying goes among photogs, "f/8 and be there". Well, I was.
Pier 26
Pier 26
The soccer pitch
Abandonned
Silhouette
Mighty
Going to be a cold ride