A Vincent Mounier Photography Blog

Firefox Rocks!
October 10, 2005
Reviews, Web winks
I've been using the very stable newest beta version of Firefox (1.5 Beta 2) for a few days now and more than ever love my browser. The final release of version 1.5 is expected later this year, but current 1.07 version performs just as well and everyone should check it out. Firefox turns the task of surfing the web into a pleasure. The tabbed browsing is awesome and extremely efficient; you can even reposition your tabs according to your needs. The smart search function hi...
No Comments
Montreal - The tourist views
October 7, 2005
Photoblogs
All right; standing on the edge of anarchy after my last post, I felt compelled to rectify my aim and fall back into the well behaved photographer groove. Here is the mediatic face of a very attractive city, blah-blah-blah...
No Comments
Snapshots
October 7, 2005
Photoblogs
Why always be neat and picky about our photography? Yeah sure, I usually consider the rule of thirds to be my bible and spend an eternity refining my angles and framing and light and exposure and composition and... wait a minute! Spontaneous is good too! Snapshots retain more of a subject's life, they convey better motion, and less calculation. Here are two that I'm fond of. The first is a self-portrait during one of those very calculated panoramic photo sessions, where...
1 Comment
New skin for the blog
October 5, 2005
Bits and pieces
The new blog look is a result of an experiment conducted way too late at night... It isn't final but reflects the emerging tendency to adopt lighter tones for the site. [To be continued when I've slept a little...]
No Comments
The Magic of Lanterns
October 4, 2005
Photoblogs
Every year in fall, the Montreal Botanical Garden hosts "The Magic of Lanterns", a dazzling exposition of lighted hand-made paper sculptures in the finest Chinese tradition. This year's theme was "In the Kingdom of the Birds". I've posted a few samples in the Traveling Colors gallery, also accessible directly via the thumbnails below. 02-12-08 Update: since the site redesign, the Traveling Colours page has been morphed with a newer Flash ...
No Comments
New Panoramic Gallery
September 30, 2005
Bits and pieces
This new gallery is experimental and will need some tweaking, as well as new photographs. But it seems to work fine as long as you have Java installed and enabled on your browser (that's Sun Java, not to be confused with Javascript). Come and have a look at the 4 panoramas installed so far and please be patient initially as the images loading are anywhere between 150 and 500 Kb in size! 2009 update: the pano gallery is no longer available due to a major site redesi...
No Comments
Have you stumbled upon something cool on the web, lately?
September 22, 2005
Cool
)arrow If you haven't, make sure to check out this idea: StumbleUpon is a - free - tool that lets you browse, review and share great webpages. It lets you select categories as a way of refining your tastes and interests, and tailors its results to you. You can associate with people sharing those tastes for even better results. When you find a page you really like, voting for it is as easy as a click; if the page hasn't been reviewed by a StumbleUpon user yet, you can wri...
No Comments