I agreed when my employer offered to transfer me to the Parisian area 16 years ago, as a way to come back to France after a prolonged and enjoyable stay in New Jersey, USA. The secret plan was to rapidly find another job, somewhere else in the country. But life would be boring if everything worked as expected... And so everything looked suddendly very enjoyable around the capital when Cupid caught me off-guard!
We've spent many wonderful years here with our childen, but my wife and I actually share the same desire to live a new adventure under different skies.
I was appointed by a competitor to take a new position in Singapore, and will move some time in May. While we expect this to be only for a few years, it is a big change as we are selling the house and many of our belongings. We've been very busy lately deciding what to do and how to organize it, there was not much time or envy for me to work on photography. This has to change now, and I've decided to start a project with a loose theme: I will document the transition with at least one picture a week. It could be pictures of people or places I will leave here and maybe miss, or, later, scenes or faces that we encounter in our new life.
Week 1: Winter in Mery
We've experienced cold temperatures recently, something I will definitely miss in the upcoming years. But more than winter, I will miss the changing sceneries in the gardens of the Chateau de Méry sur Oise, close enough to our house to be considered our own gardens... I've spent many hours looking for different perspectives, and mostly in infrared.
