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Yves Paternoster

Galleries

32 photographs, grouped by subject. Or see all of them together.

Mont Saint-Michel rising above green salt meadows grazed by sheep, with a winding tidal channel cut into the grass in the foreground.

Landscape

6 photographs

Open country, coastlines and wide horizons, photographed for the moment when the light settles.

Two people on horseback crossing the wet sand at low tide, silhouetted against a pink and orange sunset reflected in the shallow water.

Sunrise & Sunset

8 photographs

The two ends of the day, when the sun sits low enough to give a landscape its depth.

The Seine in Paris at sunset, a stone bridge crossing water smoothed by a long exposure, with riverside facades and trees under a pink and orange sky.

Cities

6 photographs

Architecture, rivers and streets — cities photographed at the hours when they are quietest.

A narrow path through tall beech trunks with a shaft of sunlight breaking through the canopy and lighting the ground.

Forest

5 photographs

Woodland interiors, mist and the rhythm of trunks. The most patient of these subjects.

The view from Saint Michael's Bridge over Ghent before sunrise: wet cobbles in the foreground, spires and gabled houses under a deep blue sky, street lamps still lit.

Blue Hour

4 photographs

The short window after sunset when artificial light and daylight balance exactly.

A ballerina in an orange dress leaping across the empty courtyard of the Louvre, the glass pyramid catching the last light behind her.

Portrait

3 photographs

People photographed in a place — a dancer on an empty square at dawn, a face lit by a single flame.