Whimsical Wonderderings In France

Enough of Nantes, let's go somewhere else!

2020 has arrived, and I'm still a tea drinker....

My Christmas 2019 wasn't like most Christmases. It was special. Find out why.

Waiting for a friend to do the dreaded Christmas shopping, but thought I could get some photography done whilst waiting

Like any father I worry about daughter, and whatever she does with her life, I will always love her as much as the day she came into this world....

Christmas holidays, free time, but how best to use it?

A father son day out in December just before Christmas. Things never seem to go as planned, But it was still a magical day.

Allowed to leave work early. What to do? Tea at the Sugar Blue Cafe! And cake..

Marianne is a local legend and sang for us at the pub for and music festival in the bars of Nantes

Friends, tea, cake, daughter, Nantes, new car, son, and more

The text from an article on my blog ijmphotograpy.net.  It was the 17 th of November, and as I had a concert the next day, I went to mass on the Saturday night instead of the usual Sunday.   I thought great, I'll be able to take some nice photos, but things didn't go as planned.

If you've read the article about Lourdes in my blog then you know that I'm a practicing Catholic it was Sunday and I hadn't been in the morning and I could see the clock turning I remembered there's a mass in the evening in the cathedral

Halloween has come and gone and the countdown to Christmas has begun, but no trees until the beginning of Advent, or at the latest St Nicholas' Day.

Talking about nostalgia...

Reflections on my my visit to Lourdes. Why? What? How? Answers?

I tell stories.  They just seem to be there in my head waiting to get out.  I usually do this with photography. After all they say a picture is worth a thousand words.  This is of course true. But wouldn’t it be nice to have some context to the photographic story.  So, I started telling the stories behind the photos as well. These stories are on my blog, ijmphotography (all one word) dot net.   I wanted to take it further though and read out these background stories to the pictures.  Sometimes, you may laugh, sometimes you will question your beliefs, sometimes it will just be like listening to a record on the radio. I wanted to give it a go, so here goes that go.