Encore heureux qu'on va vers l'été

[Airy]

... the title of a novel published in 1975.
Df, Zeiss 25/2 close to MFD, apertures between 2.5 and 4.5.

[Akira]

I'm not sure if the novel has ever been translated into Japanese, but the machine translation into English seems to work (at least for the title).

I feel a subdued, somewhat melancholic happiness from these images and their colors, but it is rather irresistible like the passages in mP.

[Jacques Pochoy]

Légère mélancolie un peu différente de la 5ème D...
Great pictures, hoping they'll be a call for more sun !!!

[Airy]

thank you both.
Colors look never more beautiful than under an overcast sky. A photographic fact (or opinion) that you may transpose metaphorically.

By the way, I enjoy doing close-ups with WA. I think I'll grab my 24/3.5 PC again, it has a higher magnification ratio.

[Airy]

Légère mélancolie un peu différente de la 5ème D...

Jacques, I can imagine the feeling of those 7th graders hearing from their professor that they are a boring pack... such remarks can indeed "subdue" the spirits of young persons.

[armando_m]

Beautiful soft light , shallow DOF, subdued colors, such enjoyable images

[Jacques Pochoy]

Jacques, I can imagine the feeling of those 7th graders hearing from their professor that they are a boring pack... such remarks can indeed "subdue" the spirits of young persons.

As a "teacher", I can relate to that story (as with "The zen and the art of motorcycle" by Pirsig) ! It's a difficult art to keep students on the topic and also to have them discovering new worlds, new ways of living, getting them to think more as "authors", then following  a would be "Master" of whatever...
Photography (as sketching) is often a lateral way to provoke some form of autonomy !

[timh]

Beautiful images - the colours are lovely

[Airy]

Beautiful soft light , shallow DOF, subdued colors, such enjoyable images

I confess I raised the purple on #2. Otherwise no particular tweaks on these pics. But:

I mostly use Lightroom; as I noticed that the standard profile would exaggerate the saturation of reds, I bought a dedicated Df profile that seems well balanced. I have not had the patience to establish one by myself.

View Nxi would give satisfactory results "as is".

[Frank Fremerey]

beautiful, melancholic mood you captured.

love the colors under rain, overcast, at dawn or at dusk