Transporter en automobile ou en hélicoptère les caméras et les pellicules, produits les plus poussés, puissants et fragiles de notre civilisation, et puis méticuleusement imprimer avec ce portrait de nous-mêmes, a du être une expérience troublante. Je reprends encore mon souffle.

A set of thirty-three photos assembled with patience and love,
Gulls is a book which celebrates the joy of looking at seagulls.

The book has taken many months to complete (the first printing occurred a year ago) and, since I put a lot of heart into it, inevitably gives me pride and happiness. All along the past months I have had the great joy and privilege to share it with relatives; now anyone can get a copy thanks to the wonders of on-demand printing.

Naturally enough, the contents are available are available under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license, and source files are published for everyone’s enjoyment and re-use. In a burst of half-amused anticipation I also wrote up answers to frequently asked questions about the book.

I complain often about how things are and how they change but expressing what I see in this way is an extraordinary privilege. Flight, or war, or both: the world is here for us to witness.

I will be posting one a day for the next few weeks. Today’s photo is called angel and is one memory from being in Munich on a cold winter night.

All of the photos are posted with a large size (1600px) and with a flexible copyright license. There is even an RSS feed if you want to follow closely.

Terns by the nearby ponds, April 2009.

(Making images and writng texts is a good way to cope with difficult events)
For these two birds, this pond is only one in a thousand — they are on their way from one arctic circle to the other. A twice-yearly 20 000 km journey… by next season, they will be overflying another continent. Have a safe flight.

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