Every artists (sculptor, painters) and every places will be listed in the calendar.
I've
made a great selection of pictures, that show all I love the most... moody,
gloomy, misty... mountains, water and a bit of architecture too ;)
I believe this selection really show what's best in my pictures and I hope you'll like it!
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Every picture have a story (at least, brings memories)...
January
Friendly Ghost
Artist Resin Custom paintjob by Danielle Feldman. Model sculpted by Sarah Minkiewicz-Breunig.
Who ever dreamed of taking a picture of Stormwatch into a storm? This picture taken at le Fanget, mountain pass (French Alps) certainly is one of my most impressive of him. I remember that moment when the cloud came over us, envelopping the scenery in a misty and blurry snow delight. I was feverish as I snapped the picture.
This exact feeling is still the same today as I look at this, and I believe it's a great way to start a year!
February
GrassHopper
Artist Resin Custom paintjob by Laurence Cassin. Model sculpted by Brigitte Eberl.
My love for castle life in one picture. We were shooting another
shirtless torso calendar with my friend Clémentine, wich means I was staying at the castle she lives in (she's renting an appartment there, as it's more and more usual in France - location:
Yonne department). On the morning, I saw the grass was frosted and immediately feeled the urge to goes outside and picture it... It wasn't easy as frost melt quickly and setting a modelhorse picture take time... but I got it! Right in time.
I truly loves the fierce glance of that specific horse (he's made for castles) and the warm tone of the castle with the cold tone of the frosty morning. Definely a day I'm not regretting to have waken up early (yes, I confess... I'm not a morning person).
February beeing the coldest month of the year (at least, here) I believe this is the perfect picture to illustrate it.
March
Daylight
Artist Resin Custom paintjob by
Coralie Journoud. Model sculpted by Morgen Kilbourn.
Nora Creina
Artist Resin Custom paintjob by Coralie Journoud. Model sculpted by Brigitte Eberl.
Cascading water... such a hard thing to capture... but I never let difficulty stops me. I had luck, we got lots and lots of rains, wich helped this usually small trickle of water to looks like something eye-catching. Our mountains (French Alps) are usually dry, it's a mediteranean climate here, so that amonth of water is rare.
I wanted a bold scene with horses watering themselves and I'm pretty happy with the result.
You can see the promess of warmer days in the colours, even if the feeling remains cold, wich makes it a perfect picture for march!
The motivated photographer takes off her skirt and goes into water!
Poltergeist
Artist Resin Custom paintjob by
HWCS. Model sculpted by Jennifer Scott.
More water, warmer feeling... beautiful tones of the North Sea!
Jacques Brel sing the northern sea in
le plat pays (song wich describe poetically my country, Belgium):
Avec la mer du nord comme dernier terrain vague (=with the northern sea as least wasteland / in fact this sentence doesn't work in english as the french word "vague" also means "wave" and it's a wordplay)
Et des vagues de dunes pour arrĂȘter les vagues (=and waves of dunes to stop the waves / he plays with the french word "vague")
Et de vagues rochers que les marées dépassent, (=and unclear rocks that the tides exceed / "vague" also means unclear, still playing with that word)
Et qui ont à jamais le coeur à marée basse. (=And who forever have their heart at low tide.)
Yes, I've always Belgium in my heart and I believe I need to show a place from there in every calendar. Here's the one for this year... I'm a child from the north even if I now life in the south.
May
Love Me Right
Artist Resin Custom paintjob by Clémence de Casanove. Model sculpted by Sheila Bishop.
Aisling
Doll by Zjakazumi Doll, clothed by MĂ©lanie Touchard.
Another castle, but this one is private. It's a very typical one, with a soutern architecture (French Alps). You'll have the location in the calendar pages, but I will not write it on the blog.
My mom BF used to work there, in fact he lived on site, so I was lucky to gets there a few time and really wanted to picture it with modelhorse... but... the whole castle is on several narrow terraces, and it gave me a hard time as it lacks of space for proper modelhorse pictures. I found this angle very life-alike and different from what I usually do, because I had to be ingenious to have it.
The blue sky and overall warm feeling is perfect for may.
Here's a picture of me in the castle pool, it might help you vizualise what I say about how the whole thing is staged. You can refers to the tower, wich is on both pictures.
June
Amira
Artist Resin Custom paintjob&modifications by Sue Kern. Model sculpted by Brigitte Eberl.
Cloud of dust. With that exceptionnal sand colours in the ochres of Rustrel's Colorado. It's in France, however... in Provence to be more precise.
Thoses are old ochre quarry. Ripping open the earth to tear away the precious
pigments, declining a thousand colors and giving birth to landscapes with
fantastic shapes... wich remind of the far west.
You can visit the ochre of Roussillon on horseback (with a guide), but saddly I've never been able to brings Amira there. At least, I've got model-Amira to fulfill some of my ochre dreams. That's what this hobby is for me: giving me the opportunity to pictures horses in fabulous places with my own ways.
Amira's birthday is in june, so she's the perfect model for this month (isn't it?).
July
Daylight
Artist Resin Custom paintjob by Coralie Journoud. Model sculpted by Morgen Kilbourn.
I didn't went far for this picture, as it's actually
la Blanche , river that flows at the bottom of my garden-field. In summer, when I have the
horses at home, I brings them in for a refreshing time.
I immediately saw the Xlurpie resin as a challenge for me, outdoor modelist photographer, and founding watery place for her is my own challenge now. My Daylight model already have
spilled ink (because of it's outsanding paintjob) and I love every pictures I've taken of her. In this one, you truly found again the light and feeling of a hot july afternoon, in the fresh shade of the river.
August
Familiar Fox's Grapes
Artist Resin Custom paintjob by Kimberly Bleecker. Model sculpted by Emilia Kurila.
The hot water sources of Guillestre (French Alps),... my favorite playground. This picture was taken the day I discovered this magical place and I immediately felt in love with it... how not to?
When I goes on photoshooting, I always pick my horses randomly... how to believe this picture wasn't planned on purpose? Well it's true.
With years, this place have changed, vegetation have grown and this specific picture with it's lunar feeling would be more difficult to archieve, so I'm really glad to have got it the first time. Perfect colours for august!
Thank to my mom who took me so many times on tour to show me places for my modelhorses!
September
Honeymoon
Artist Resin Custom paintjob by Frances Steven. Model sculpted by Stacey Tumlinson.
I still need to relate my trip to la cĂŽte de Granite Rose (pink granite coast, in english) on this blog - it will be worth it (but maybe, if you follow my social media, you've got a hint). Truly one of the most beautiful place I've ever seen. Got it's name from the pink granite of the cliffs, and you can see it pretty well on this picture. What an incredible color! What an incredible place! Also it's probably the farest in France from where I do lives so it was quite exotic for me.
This calendar show you my two favorite sea places, both very very far from my mountains. As it remind of summer, but with the gloomy looks of Brittany, I choose it for september.
October
Pumpkin
Artist Resin Custom paintjob by HWCS. Model sculpted by Stacey Tumlinson.
This picture. This. Specific. Picture...
Probably one of my ever forever favorite of all time. Everything is perfect to my eye there. Light, colours, dynamism... that place overall... that horse overall...
I'm not going to wrote a book about what I feel, but it's overwhelming. I still can't believe I archieved this.
"Le pré de Mme Carle" is in the heart of the Ecrin National Park (French Alps).
The
place got it's name from a local story about Mrs Carle that incured
some jealousy and especially from her husband. He decided to thirst her
mule for a few days (yes the story mention a mule, not a horse). Then
when Mrs Carle got with her husband, riding, the poor thisty mule
pounced in the stream and Mrs Carles dismounted and drown into it.
Got
back there in 2023, and the picture with the Lucius resin was taken at the same place!
November
Spotify
Artist Resin Custom paintjob by Eva Rossiter. Model sculpted by Eva Rossiter.
GrassHopper
Artist Resin Custom paintjob by Laurence Cassin. Model sculpted by Brigitte Eberl.
Autumn in full swing... when the autumn colours are still here, but the first snow add contrast.
I took this picture on la Blanche's road (French Alps), one of the place with the most beautiful autumn trees I know. It's pretty easy, as it's the main road to get from my lost mountains to civilisation, so I admire it every fall, wishing to took the time to picture it. It was done last year, finally and here's the result.
I'm always impressed by how many time you can plan to do something and how many years it can took to actually do it.
December
Monstera Deliciosa
Artist Resin Custom paintjob by Chris Flint. Model sculpted by Chris Flint.
This is the view from le Grand Puy, ski ressort (French Alps). The one I saw last winter, as I was working there (in alternance). Seeing this all day long, for weeks, really is inspiring. I had to do something.
This horse was my christmas present from me to me, and I took it immediately with me at work around that time, planning pictures on the evening after work (and praying for snow not to melt). I got so lucky not only snow was perfect, but weather too with thoses misty mountain top.
This specific ski station, is probably going to close because of the lacks of snow from thoses past years... it become harder and harder to have it white enought... then I'm proud to have captured the whole place in a white blanket!
And that's all I have to said, it was pretty much a lot isn't it?
So if you want to spent a year with my pictures (and all the beautifuls places it depict) don't be shy to sent me a mail ;)
