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I would like to thank all my visitors who came to see my paintings and leave such lovely comments for me. I have never got so much feed back. This gives me a lot of pleasure, so Thank you all! Thanks to Marcel for starting this off which gave me to idea

It was not really bad, but the waves were enormous for our side of the world. I was lucky to have been there! Which one do you like the best?

Mimosa and sun in January is such a pleasure. I'm just plain lucky to live where I do! This is dedicated to my ipernity friend Mimosa! I was thinking of her when I took these photos yesterday.

The Four Seasons Spring : I did the four seasons, as I wanted to, but they are also the seasons of my life. The young girl is situated in a big anemone, which is one of the first flowers that grow in my garden in spring. The little

Les 4 saisons. Pendant toute la carrière artistique de Christine, ses tableaux ont représenté ce qu’elle aimait le plus : la beauté, beauté des fleurs, des paysages ….. Elle a également réalisé de nombreux portraits qui ne sont terminés que lorsque ils

It was so beautiful to see Mahé doing this and it gave me such pleasure to take these photos of him!

These were taken last night from my balcony. The light was magnifiique!

It was so cloudy, but I wanted to go into town to take photos. I found the light and followed it!

Looks really easy, but it's so difficult to get good shots of a three year old!

It was not easy to take good photos, as I kept having to look at the backgrounds! They are nice memories though for the family and that's what is more important!

This painting was an order It was ordered by the boy in the centre of the painting. He wanted to seize this instant of his life as he was so happy. He was in college with his two friends and they were having a drink in the old town of Nice. The boy on

It was a lovely sunny day and looked like spring, but very cold! These were a few photos I took with a wide angle lens to try it out!

These were taken from the other side of the bay of Menton. I wanted to show the movement of the pine trees there and the light in the late evening is lovely.

These were taken on the beach and I just couldn't get over the lovely colours on the beach reflected by the sky!

I look after Mahé every Wednesdays, so try to teach him how to paint. This is what happened last Wednesday.

It was a dull day as you can see from the clouds, but I like the mimosa against the grey of the clouds, which brings it out better!

Carnival has started in Menton and I went yesterday for the "corso". The weather was beautiful and so it was a huge sucess. It was crowded and people come from all over the world. It is the only carnival where oranges and lemons are used to make up the

I hope you enjoyed it! I will be putting up more after I have been to the night show.

Let me take the opportunity to thank all my friends for their visits and loyality! I do really appreciate this.

Just a few odds and ends while I have been showing my family the town and it's surroundings!

These were some of the orchids I shot at the international orchid show!

It was really another atmosphere at night and I spent a lovely couple of hours listening to jazz and typical French music.

This was so exciting but not at all easy to take photographs. There were so many people and one had to look after the camera as well! But what beauty there!

For all people living in the U.K. go to www.thepic.co.uk to buy a canvas of photographs!

Either you like it or not, that is the end of the lemon festival!

We have already got all these flowers in our garden, so spring is in the air!

Just a few pics when I took my family to visit Monaco the other day!

Although I have seen this underwater world in the Maldives, snorkeling and diving, I never took this photos there! I took my falily to the Oceanographic Museum in Monaco, which is absolutely beautiful to see. Photos were not allowed with flash, so these

These were taken in my garden yesterday. What colour!

I will enter a competition next month on the theme "Landscape and it's light" . This will take place in Menton at "Le Palais de L'Europe" and if I am selected my photos will be there. Just wish me luck!

Due to guests at home, I will be less active this coming week and absent for the following three weeks. Hopefully I will bring back some interesting pics from my holiday!

I'm back and getting over jet lag. I came back to the good news that my phtots won the special prize in the gallery in Menton. I was over the world! If you want to see it go to https://www.test.ipernity.com/doc/cvalin/12395 693. I'll be putting up my pics soon

I was lucky enough to go to western Australia for two weeks and a week in Sydney. It was really an eye opener and I thoroughly enjoyed every moment of my stay. It's a place where East meets the West. I shall be putting up photos for some time to come as

We spent only a few days in Sydney and had a mixture of good and bad days. I was very impressed with the city and felt the West meets the East here!

Thanks for all your visits and comments on my holiday in Perth and Sydney. I hope it gave you some pleasure!

I went for the sunrise, but it never did with all the clouds in the sky. But what beauty I saw! It was really worth while!

Just a few expressions when he was with me in the garden!

I took these in a garden in Menton and I was thrilled to have my macro lens at the time!

These portraits are very special for me, as I tried b and w on my twin. Sadly she is blind and cannot help me any more on my photography and paintings! I miss her very much.

I just went into the garden and just shot a few flowers and insects and I feel soooo good!

He spends every Wednesday with me, so I take advantage of this and take photos of him. Just look at those eyes!

I took these in my garden today!

I was there at 5.15 AM this morning to take the old town at sunrise. These will be coming soon!

Just a few portraits of kids in b and w. What beauty!

I spent a few days in England and these were pics taken early morning or at dusk. Enjoy!

Just a few macros taken in my garden. There is so much colour around!

Just a few macros I took recently in the garden!

These were taken the other day as I want to see what I could do with low light photography! What do you think?

I was facinated by this bee rolling in the pollen of the flower! I wonder if you will!

I wanted to see what I could get with a wide angle lens, and it was so cloudy! This is so unusual for this time of the year. I was happy to see this red cloud arrive which made the photo. This has not been changed in photoshop and is taken in-camera.

I took these yesterday and now Mahé is posing for me which is a change! I've taken so many pics of him, but it's always a challenge!

I am doing an exam on movement and went out yesterday to try it all out!

It was nealy full moon, but but a lovely atmosphere two night ago when I was taking these pics!

Nothing having much time to go out, I spend a few minutes every afternoon looking for subjects in my garden. There is always something, if one looks hard!

For people interested in a canvas with my pic, the prices have come down. Only UK deliveries for now! Go to www.thepic.co.uk

Ryan is my nephew and Sam his fiancé. They are with me on holiday at present and I am taking advantage of photographing them! What pleasure to see this couple in love!

I started painting again after stopping for over three years! I just wanted to see how I paint now and I think my photography has helped me a lot to compose my paintings better. It was very interesting!

I went twice to take pics of flamenco in a village next to where I live. The challenge is enormous, as everything is against you! I couldn't use flash, the bright lights were against me, I couldn't go where I wanted to and don't talk about the movement.

I have decided to have a slower pace of putting up photos on ipernity for several personal reasons due to the lack of time and priority on other things like painting etc. So I hope my friends will understand. I advise them to visit my older albums once in

As you can notice, I am trying out candid shots. I needed some challenge, and decided to try out these shots to see what I can get out of it. It's very interesting, but not easy. In fact, I was even scared in the beginning. I want to go out often to get

This is my latest pastel which I finished today. I hope you like it. I was very motivated to do it, as the bush made such an impression on me during both my trips to Western Australia. The colours are a lot sober on the original, which is very difficult

I went the other day to take the sunrise again. I am addicted to the beauty now and keep wanting to go again and again!

I went again to take candid shots, but I wonder if someone can help me! I am wondering if I can put these up on the net! Does anyone know what the law is?

I just saw the drops and spent about 10 minutes just taking what I felt in the garden!

This is what I wanted to paint for a long time, after spending 10 days in the Maldives. It represents what impressed me on the island! I will be doing a couple more paintings of the Maldives.

I'll be putting up some photos of his birthday! He is 4 now - how the time flies! Four years that I'm with Ipernity too! I can't believe it.

I just want to thanks all of you my friends for your visits and the great contact that we have with each other. I have been four years at Ipernity and there has always been someone to make me happy! I appreciate that very much. Let's say, I toast to that

More macros of flowers in my garden! I hope you like them!

I just wanted to get the sun rising from the sea, but there were clouds. I'll go back again, I'm sure!

I just love going to seeing the beauty and to try to capture it!

This bunch was given to me as a present and I share it with you! What beauty!

I went twice to take the sunset from a higher level. I wanted to learn how to use a ND grad at the sunset! I was lucky to get such beautiful sceneries!

Just a few pics I took, the frame of which has one door and one window. It was very interesting!

I just happened to have been on the beach with my camera as it was not planned at all. I was so happy to be able to take these pics!

This month of November has the most beautiful light to my opinion of the year! I can't over it, and for us photographers, what more can we ask for!

This village dominates the town of Nice and the view from it are unique! It is a very well kept village and the the colours very bright! Good for us photographers!

These were photos taken with off-camera flash, which I have just learnt and feel vey excited about the results. Hope you like them too.

I am painting at present, so have run out of pics. I will show you some more Australian photos which I took on my trip there in April. Enjoy!

This is my latest painting which has a very significant meaning especially for me. All I want to show in my art and in my photographs is mainly beauty. I put the young girl on the beach representing me, as ever since I was young, I was always sensitive to

If I take so many sunrises, it's beacause I love going to see them. I can't get over the beauty of nature! It's also not too early now to get up to be there!

As I don't have any other pics, it gives me pleasure to see what I can do with still life! It's for you to judge!