three giants

[Olivier]

As often, this was shot in the gardens of the "Chateau de Méry", near my house.
V1IR, 6 shots pano.

[Gary]

Wow, ever nice, I absolutely love the processing.

[Airy]

Ditto. Did you indeed "convert" the camera to IR, or is it PP artistry ?

[Olivier]

Gary, Airy, thank you!

I converted a V1 indeed, using the 720nm filter previously sitting in my dead D80IR. The conversion is reasonnably easy to perform if unlike me you start with the appropriate screwdriver, as usual the tricky part is to be able to insert a dust-free filter in a dust-free camera.

Gary, the processing is a combination of infrared self-magic (even hard sunlight can be good in IR) and Nik Silver Efex, the now free and always rich B&W convertor.

Olivier

[Airy]

Technical tricks aside, the framing is great, and the three giants even more - plane trees, apparently.

[Tejpor]

Yes, this is a wonderful image! The composition, the glow just superb.

[Akira]

This is yet another lovely Olivier-esque IR image!

[simato73]

Absolutely beautiful, I really like this image.
I would like to see it printed big and hanging off a wall; if it were mine I'd find in my home as big a space as possible for it.

[golunvolo]

+1 to all the above.

  I like how the trees inside the frame creates 4 different paths with different destinations. I, as a viewer, had the time to see them all but felt compelled to make a choice at the end, so I did.

  Thanks for the experience.

[JJChan]

Olivier
Beautiful and inspiring - thank you

JJ

[Erik Lund]

Very nice framing and processing!

[Frank Fremerey]

In IR you achieve a dreamy atmosphere like a fairy tale illustration. I love the bark of plane trees. My gandparents used to have lots of these in their garden.

I feel I have seen this garden before. Is that public?

With houses like that I ask myself if I'd like to own one or if that is a too large form for me.

For the time being I prefer to walk in the gardens of these houses if they are public or visit some relatives living in such places.

Sometimes I feel it is not good for the social fabric to distance oneself to much from other people.

[Olivier]

Thanks for the many responses, I am honored.
Frank, this is a castle dating back to the middle age and that was rebuilt during the Renaissance period. it is quite large and the gardens and forest cover 27 hectares, at the center of the small city of Mery sur Oise near Paris.
The place is now the property of the city, they use it as a public parc and for many local festivities, and there is also a hotel next to it (hidden in the forest) which uses the castle as a seminar house.
I live at walking distance from the castle, we often pique-nique there, or simply walk in the gardens when the weather is nice. The park is also a part of one of my jogging routines.
It is also my "long term photographic project" as I keep returning there with my IR camera, and try to find new angles on this familiar (to me) place. You must all get bored of often seeing similar-looking pictures!

[elsa hoffmann]

should look great printed big

[Jacques Pochoy]

Superbe prise de vue avec le chateau au fond... :-) Cela donne envie d'essayer l'IR !