Denis Monfleur, Sculpture

My very good friend Denis Monfleur, I have been photographing his work for the past 10 years, in fact just about the time he started working with granite. He is a real master in granite, being able to really put feeling and beauty into his work. There are very few artist that can achieve what he is able to to. Right now we are working on a retrospective of his work to be published by Gallimard later in the year.
I am fortunate enough to be a collector of Denis' work

Fabrice Brunet. Tae Kwon Do

I have been photographing the work of the sculpture Fabrice Brunet, he is also a Tae Kwon Do teacher so I photographed him in his dojo, he is a black belt. I don't usually do these kind of action shots, but this was really great to do, catching the moment.

Chateau Rolin

Dana Rolin lights her Creme Brulée

Chateau Les Trois Croix

Last night we drank a bottle of Fronsac that my friend Patrick Leon
made, very very good. Thank you Patrick.

Friday after lunch... What else

Today I had lunch with my daughter Amelia ,this is always very nice.

Late at night

Up last night around Paris such a beautiful city, I am always
attracted to this beautiful tower

From my phone

Updating from my phone this morning, the move to digital has been hard
for me, but I love the control I have over the final image, this is
really important for me. But the downside is hours inside in front of
the computer......

Francis HAMMOND Photography
+336 82 00 45 48
www.fhphoto.com

Lunch With Philippe Excoffier

I am using my telephone to make photographs more and more, its just a different way of making images, maybe one day I will be able to photograph a job with the telephone, who knows?
Anyway I have lunch with my friend Philippe Excoffier, very very good, we are working on our website/blog
This picture made with my telephone, the image was treated with an application called bestcamera

The Palaces Of Paris

For the past 10 months I have been photographing all the residences of the foreign ambassadors in Paris, these are all the big palaces of paris, really amazing. This is in the German residence an amazing palace in the 7eme Paris. This is for a book for Flammarion to be out in Sept/Oct 2010

Excoffier Blog

I have started another blog with the Chef Philippe Excoffier, yes I know I have already spoken of this, its actually started up now, the website creator Christophe Glaudel in in charge of web stuff and of course me for the photographs. We got to have lunch with Philippe on friday for the first recipe's very good lunch
www.excoffier.com

Britain in Paris

Today I started another book project, this one is about the British Ambassadors residence in Paris, the house is very beautiful, a chateau in Paris. This will be an interiors book,with Flammarion

Snow snow snow

So yet again more snow, another S-day...
And we will not be taking the coffee in the garden.

Chef Philippe Excoffier

Today with Christophe Glaudel we created a wedsite and blog for a good friend and top chef Philippe Excoffier. Its nearly up and running, within a few days it will be working.
Please take a look www.chefexcoffier.com
be sure to let me know what you think

Barbed Wire

One cannot step twice into the same river.