Odile Noel Gallery

Dawn in Puerto Pollensa, Majorca, 1984.
House front on the island of Burano - Venice, 1998.
... and the house occupants! Burano, Venice, 1998.
A wet sunset in Venice, 1998.
Morning mist hangs over Hagya Sophia while the fountains are being cleaned. Istanbul, Turkey, 1996.

The Missiri Mosque in FrÃ©jus, France, 1998. Built around 1930 by the Senegalese infantry when they were based in FrÃ©jus, this is a scaled-down replica of the famous Great Mosque of DjennÃ©, in Mali (the largest mud brick structure in the world).
A totally windless day on the Loire - Amboise, 1979.
The light from the stained glass windows plays on the granite of Saint-Malo Cathedral - Brittany, 1993.
Le Petit Train des CÃ©vennes crosses a viaduct on its way from Anduze to Saint-Jean-du-Gard. 2005.
The shop's owner (whose face is drawn on the shopwindow) sits on his friend's lap for a good-humoured picture. Amsterdam, 2000.

Lac de Saint-Cassien, Montauroux (Var), 1997.
On the Lac de Saint-Cassien (Var), 1997.
Not far from my home, this pretty house with tiny windows is always immaculate. 2009.
The small village of Montclus and the river CÃ¨ze (Gard), 2011.
The washhouse in Goudargues... on a crisp day just after Christmas. The water was very cold, but this tough old lady explained that although she does have a washing machine, she still prefers to wash smalls by hand in the lavoir, as she's done all her life. And she's not even wearing rubber gloves to keep out the cold!

The name of a tiny street in Bagnols-sur-CÃ¨ze (Gard). I really must find out how this came about...
Fisherman on a boat in Port-Vendres (PyrÃ©nÃ©es-Orientales), 1981.
Saint-Tropez harbour at sunset, 1996.
Shutters in Saint-Tropez, 1996.
The Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp, with the Monument to the Departed in the foreground, about 50 km south-west of Strasbourg, 1978.
This was the only concentration camp established by the Nazis on present-day French territory. See Wikipedia for more info.

Paris, 1978.
Upstairs, downstairs... Inside the Louvre glass pyramid, Paris, 1990.
Inside the Louvre glass pyramid, Paris, 1990.
Waiting for the evening parade on the Champs-ElysÃ©es on 13 July 1989, the eve of the bicentenary of Bastille Day.
Obviously, my mum and I opted to watch it on TV!
No, the crane isn't about to lift the obelisk... In this trompe-l'oeil, the crane - which will accommodate a TV camera to film the 1989 Bastille Day evening parade - is actually much nearer to me. A rare opportunity to enjoy a car-free Champs-ElysÃ©es.

This time, the obelisk is in front of the big wheel. Paris, 1998.
This punk/goth look must have taken a while to put together... At least it's not raining! Covent Garden, London, 1987.
Believe it or not, this is a colour shot! One of the two new footbridges on either side of Hungerford Bridge, London, 2007.
A snowy night on Chelsea Bridge, London, 1981.
Laser beam over Oxford Street, London, 1978. Laser lights were still a fascinating curiosity at the time.

Battersea power station under the snow. London, 1981.
Rainbow over the stacks of Battersea power station, London, 1979. Taken from my bedroom window in King's Road.
Somewhere over Germany on my way back from Frankfurt, February 1985.
Clumber Park, in the northern part of Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire, England, 1981.
Traffic jam in South Wales, UK, 1996.

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