Andy Rodker's photos with the keyword: Provence

I stayed here one summer. No electricitiy, except I could get music from a cassette player running off the car battery. Food cooked on the open hearth and water from a well a few hundred metres away. Idyllic then. It wouldn't suit me now of course! The map shows houses all around now but this little cabin is still there, I'm pleased to see.

Taken in 1979 with my old Pentax ME and scanned from a slide a few years ago. I was on the boat from Cassis to the Calanques where I did a bit of climbing on the spectacular sea cliffs (no photos there I'm afraid, I was concentrating too hard clinging to the rock face!).

Taken with my trusty old Russian 35mm on my very first day of rock climbing aged 14! A scanned slide. Down below are the famed vineyards of Gigondas.

I stayed 2 days here. Friends of the family I stayed with throughout the 70s (school French exchange) were slowly converting this mas (Provencale for farmhouse) into their holiday home. (They told me they had already spent 30 years doing it up and it would take another 30 to finish!!

I had lost this in a folder that I had forgotten had a few old photos in it!. I was doing some computer housework and came across this and one or two others. I knew I had it somewhere!! Taken in 1972 on a Russian Kosmic 35, 35mm camera, which I used in the early 70s as a teenager. Just out of site but below the rock window are the famous vineyards of Côtes-du-Rhône-Villages, Gigondas.

In the Enclave-des-Pâpes.