To Ella, Sacha, Noa and Julie
Nowadays, filters and other digital artifices add to the photograph’s contrasts, colors, and spectacular lights. In an instant these unreal images jump to our eyes... And dazzle us, not to say blind us.
Here, on the contrary, with these raw photographs you have to take the time to let your gaze plunge into the image, the mirror, the lake... and see.
Francois Ventura
Lake Leman woos me with its crystal face,
The mirror where the stars and mountain’s view
The stillness of their aspect in each trace
Its clear depth yields of their far height and hue
Are not the mountains, waves, and skies, a part of me and of my soul, as I of them?
Is not the love of these deep in my heart
Lord Byron 1788-1824