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Submitted by Samatar 12/11/05 10:29 PM GMT
Our featured artist this week is ppigeon. Pierre is one of caedes earliest members and hence has a large selection of excellent photographs in his gallery. If you haven't seen it yet then you're in for a treat! Congratulations Pierre and I hope everyone can make this a great week for him by leaving your comments, questions and suggestions on his images, profile or in this news item. Here is some personal information provided by ppigeon for all of us to enjoy.
Pierre: When I received Sam’s PM, my first thought was “Yeah!” But my second was “Ouch, I must write an English text for the presentation…!” People in the south of Belgium speak French, our northern neighbours speak Flemish (Dutch) and we stay just side by side with Germany. So at school we must learn, at first, the Dutch language, second English and third German. The result is that we can speak several languages but not very well…
I’m 50, married for 27 years with Françoise and we have three children (one girl of 25 and two boys of 23 and 21 years old). We stay in a beautiful valley. You can see some images of this valley in my gallery (type ‘Meuse’ in the search engine). My dad gave us the photo-virus while building us a darkroom with an enlarger. We passed many days developing our first photos on old American paper coming from WWII! After my studies, I bought a Canon AE1 and that was the real beginning. Some of my first pictures on the site where taken with it (A tree in winter, Beauty of Scotland, …). My second cam was a Nikon F70 + zoom Nikkor 28/200. Wonderful camera, but always argentic… (see Toward the Kilimanjaro or Waterlilies, …). Then I discovered the numeric with a Hewlett-Packard 715. I’m using now an excellent Minolta Dimage A2.
As you know, my wife and I are lucky enough to travel to many countries. Everywhere we went, we met nice and accessible people. Our visits to Peru and Namibia (especially to the Himba people) were some of the most beautiful moments in our life. I think we must give young people a chance to travel, to avoid too much nationalism.
I discovered the site in November 2002, looking after some wallpapers on the web. My first contacts with Caedes, Beowulf and Winternight… were immediately excellent. I also remember the first images uploaded by Darryl (Westwood lake) and the first comments like “Wow! Wonderful image!” :-D It’s very difficult for me to choose some artists on the site, but I must say that the images from Photoimagery really impress me. Since I’ve been addicted to caedes.net, I've learned a lot of things and all people around me think that my photos have improved. This is the great interest of a site like this one. Thank you for your indulgence and thanks to Sam for this marvellous idea. This is for me a nice Xmas gift :-) Merry Christmas to every one!
