Rhythmic and Spatial Qualities

La danse des graines de marronnier d'Inde.

Do not be misled by the shooting information. I bought the Canon EOS 40D on eBay from a bloke who had put the name 'Paul Smith' into the memory of the camera. Every picture taken with that camera would therefore be tagged 'Paul Smith'. Either the seller forgot to delete 'Paul Smith' or did not know how to delete it. I did not notice for a while that I had become 'Paul Smith'. When eventually I did notice, it did not much bother me. It is a decent sort of name, after all. Owning a new name might, I thought, confuse the tax collection authorities and result in new found wealth. (It did not). Later, much later, I researched and discovered how to get rid of 'Paul Smith' (no, not murder, I am not a gangster). So a blank field replaced Paul, who had made some pretty mediocre photographs for a good while, and then I sold the camera because I hated the structure of the menu and it wasn't much better, if at all, than the EOS 30D which it had superseded and which I still keep to this day.
Another thing not to be misled over is the lens I used to take this photograph. The software takes a mad guess based on the electronics in the adapter I use for mounting M42 lenses. In actual fact, this photograph was taken with a Soligor C/D 28mm Wide-Auto f/2.8.
Finally do not be misled into believing I speak French. It is Google translator which has that skill, amongst others with whom sadly I am not acquainted.