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Last update made on 04 May, 2009 |
Introduction François's main hobby has been photography. He started in the 1960s, with a German camera that he used for travel photos. His first color slides were taken during his journey in the Pacific, Central America, the US West Coast and Vancouver. In the early 1970s he got a single lens reflex Yashica camera. But the first year of real intense photographic activity was 1972, the year he got married. He was quite interested at that time by macrophotography (in particular flowers) and very unusual pictures, that is to say special effects, to get away from the traditional "postcard" types of pictures. When he moved to Guadeloupe, he took a large amount of pictures that were used by the Tourist Office the Chamber of Commerce and Air France for their brochures. Some of them were published by magazines such as the Miami Herald Tribune. He was still using his Yashica camera. When he moved to New York, he bought his first Nikon camera, the Nikon F2, with a macro 55 mm lens that he used extensively for marcophotography. He co-founded a camera club in Port Washington (where he lived), near New York city, in which he organised photo contests. He joined the Great Neck Camera Club in which he won several awards. When he moved to Switzerland, he joined the Société Genevoise de Photographie, the most famous camera club in Switerland, and started to participate to many international contests around the world. He bought a second camera, a Nikon F3 with the motore drive and a full macrophotography equipment, including the Nikon bellow, slide duplicator and special macro ring flash and many more items that enabled him to experiment special effects. He bought his third camera a few years later (in 1988) which was a Nikon F 801, with a dedicated flash and two autofocus zoom lenses. He got rid of his Nikon F2 camera. He continued to explore interesting subjects in macrophotography and special effects. He took lots of pictures during his extensive travel in Asia, Africa and the Americas. When he moved to Montreal, he got rid of his Mikon F3 equipment and Nikon F801 and bought the new Nikon F90X.
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