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