Another busy week at work, with most of the photography after work and during the weekends.
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As in the week before, my wife and I went to the beach one afternoon. I start this week’s blog in an immodest manner, with a contre-jour selfie:
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From my vantage point, beer in the sand and camera in hand, I watched the human traffic on the water’s edge, young…:
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…and not so young:
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An image from the office. We were going to host an important stakeholder meeting the following week, and our communications service made a video to be shown during the meeting. I made an appearance, reading a prepared statement, with some improvised add-ons afterwards. The recording took place at my messy desk, making it look like I was really working:
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On Friday afternoon, I attended the opening of a photo exhibition in which I have a couple of images. I got there a bit early, so I walked around the neighbourhood a bit. During the weekend, one of the main seaside roads was going to be closed to cars, part of the city’s promotion of alternative transport modes. In conjunction with that, on Friday this bike workshop, staffed by volunteers, was set up on Plaza Seneca in the centre, so that people could have their bikes checked and adjusted for free:
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Quite a few people availed themselves of the offer:
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Then I went to our exhibition. The venue was a new place called GLUB, a mix of small business incubator, artists’ space, and lots of other eclectic stuff:
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One of my two images was from Bordeaux, and I was pleased that it attracted attention:
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Philippa, one of the driving forces behind the exhibit, gets wired up for her talk:
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Philippa, delivering her talk:
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Some people brought their children along, and they had a good time with some of the theatre props:
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On the way to the parking garage, I passed this construction debris container, which led me to think about the temporary nature of art:
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Staying with the art theme, but combining it with cycling, I came across a small art gallery on the main street in Aigues, a town on my most frequent cycling route:
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Paintings:
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Legs from the front:
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Legs from the back:
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Face on sink:
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Face on sink, closer view:
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Chair I:
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Chair II:
The final six images are from an African restaurant in our neighbourhood, called Baobab. It is only about 500 metres from my house, and I have walked by many times, but only this week did I actually go there for a meal, thanks to a recommendation from a co-worker. The food turned out to be both photogenic and delicious.
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The restaurant is very attractively decorated with African art:
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Before we even ordered our food, we got this amuse-bouche on the house, a delicious ginger and carrot soup:
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Vegetable nem and potatoes in a spicy sauce, a Senegalese version of our patatas bravas:
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Yucca:
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Fish and veg mafe, but without the fish since this was for my daughter:
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Dakar chicken yassa:
