Nordic Walking

Last Saturday, I did a photo shoot with a friend of mine. He has created his own business (Sports Elements) to teach sport to everyone.
One of his speciality is Nordic walking. It is a special technique to walk with stick and improve your speed and agility.
I make pictures with him for his web site : www.sports-elements.com.



After this frame he began to jump everywhere :





If you want to try this quite new sport, don't hesitate to contact him !

Lighting Tests

For this week, just a test of model lighting.
I use a shop model that I bought for few bucks in a sport shop who definitely close his doors.
I want to have a shadow on the wall but with the light coming from the right.
To get this effect a first flash make the shadow and a second, with more power, light the face. The trick is to provide the second flash from lighting the wall because in this case, the shadow disappear.

I also make a try with a red gel.

Model building exhibition

I spend my sunday time in the model building show at "Le Bourget".
They are many things to see : planes, boats, cars, trains and figurines.

Here are some pictures I took :

Model air plane :


Huge model boat :


Radiocontroled car demonstration, this guys are crazy !


"circular flying" is an old discipline. The plane is attach by two wire to make it climb or fly down. How do you stop it ? You can't, you just wait for the tank to be empty !


They build a swimming pool for the exhibition : 500 tons of water !



There are also some original pieces that are not model :


The entrance fee include a visit of the Air & Space Museum :