A Vincent Mounier Photography Blog
Anonymous Rockport
August 4, 2012
As I sort through hundreds of pictures, trying to find a story line and regroup images in categories, there are always orphans - shots that do not fit anywhere but will not let themselves be discarded. I happen to like them, and here they are.
A table with a view
The view
Stairs to stairs
Bleached
Stranded colors
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Rockport, Massachusetts, in HDR
August 1, 2012
The last few days went by faster than balls in the hands of a pétanque player. You know, you look forward to the event, then you show up, and the game starts, and one ball is gone, and you didn't aim so well, others throw, then your last ball flies along a high arc and lands however it may, and you're done. All that remains is retro-analysis, mental replay and the if's, maybe's and next time's. And memories.
Here is what getting up at 5 AM and a one minute walk yield in...
Mystery Seaside Location
July 29, 2012
I will soon post more pictures of the undisclosed location I am in for a few days, missing my two adored other bloggers, but this will serve as a teaser. A bear was killed by the tide here around 1700 and skinned. I know, this has nothing to do with the image, but it might give you the location.
Beached
Killer Storm
July 28, 2012
A few nights ago, at the height of summer's temper, after a hot humid day and into a mourning night, a squall line ran over the city like raging bulls at a stampede.
I scrambled to the roof to snap a few shots as the sky readied itself for a kill, dark, loaded and powerful, and I jumped back in to safety while the first rain drops were splattering on my lens and wind drafts born some 30,000 feet above the city ran through the neighborhood with furious zeal.
Killer St...
A Cruise Ship Medley
July 26, 2012
New York is mostly-water and all-glamour. No matter where one stands in the city, there is a patch of water in sight or not very far. So given the prestige surrounding a visit to the Big Apple, it is not surprising to see cruise ships line up at the gates of the NYC Harbor like fleas waiting for a bite into a dog's tender parts.
They all seem to sail off around the same time, late afternoon. Casting off from their main terminals in Brooklyn and the Hudson River, they st...
Transhumance to the Jersey Beaches - The Sequel
July 25, 2012
In my previous quest for high key, artsy, simple Manasquan images, I did not include the following, which I feared would roughen the mood and break a pattern of affected softness. Here they are now, unedited. New Jersey beaches in all their gory.
Military choppers on patrol - I love the smell of lip balm in the morning
Anchovy catcher on a background of sardines
Transhumance to the Jersey Beaches
July 23, 2012
One gets desperate. With New York City waters looking mostly like cold, milked-down coffee, the need for cleaner ocean eventually reaches a tipping point and drastic solutions are sought.
One of these, draconian yet logical, is a trip to the infamous New Jersey beaches. Having researched the topic and asked around, you might decide to launch into such an expedition and set your sights on the Manasquan station, three stops north of Bay End, southern extremity of the Nort...
Stormy, Moody Brooklyn Skies
July 21, 2012
Like urban castaways on a brownstone island, we often take to the roof and stare at distant horizons, in search of wide open spaces, of a limitless view, of freedom, of distant passing ships and the escape they may bring.
Often, we don't see much more than a Jersey skyline with Kremlin looks, busy ferries and the mad aerial ballet of three international airports' worth of arriving and departing flights.
Sometimes, however, the sky agrees to make it worth our climb to...
Flowers Have a Sole
July 20, 2012
An old barge turned museum, flowers growing in old boots, here is a perfectly normal Brooklyn scene. Red Hook, to be precise. Granted, it could probably be Holland. Or even France or Germany for that matter, both having lots of waterways. But then I would have called this post "Das Boot"...
Des roses dans une godasse. Pourquoi pas?
Travel to the Macroverse - Part 2
July 18, 2012
I recently started revisiting the macro universe. The pictures in here are a follow-up. First, I got up very early one morning to go visit some Brooklyn gardens and parks in the stillest air I could summon, but dawn is already quite hot and dew cruelly absent, so my success was mitigated by breeze and dryness.
The next shoot was done during a walk through the woods of Staten Island's Wolves Pond Park with a few members of the New York Mycological Society. While everybod...
Maritime Quiz
July 15, 2012
She's 1,132 feet long and 135 feet wide, her draft is that of a three-storey building plunged upside down into the water. With 17 decks, she is only 70 feet shorter than the statue behind her. She can carry over 3,800 souls across oceans. Who is she?
A world of giants