I have been trying to photograph the southern French Alps in the autumn for two years. The process is quite long because it requires a lot of work upstream from me. I try to spot the landscapes in the summer while the roads and trails are still clear and then I use GPS positions to go back during fall.
The weather remains the biggest problem and sometimes requires me to adapt my schedule or unfortunately cancel the hike. I use a lot of google earth to plan a road map, a maximum of 15 days ahead and I go!
Most of the time, I can’t make the pictures I wanted: weather problem, snowy road, bad light… There is a whole bunch of parameters to be taken into account. That’s why I give myself 5 years to try to capture the most beautiful spots of the southern Alps before moving to other places in the French, Swiss and Italian Alps.
I try to stay true to the atmosphere and my post-process is limited to working on contrast and colors. I do not change the sky neither do I stretch the mountains. I find it quite absurd…
I have been trying to photograph the southern French Alps in the autumn for two years.
The process is quite long because it requires a lot of work upstream from me. I try to spot the landscapes in the summer while the roads and trails are still clear and then I use GPS positions to go back during fall.
The weather remains the biggest problem and sometimes requires me to adapt my schedule or unfortunately cancel the hike.
I use a lot of google earth to plan a road map, maximum 15 days ahead and I go!
Most of the time, I can’t make the pictures I wanted: weather problem, snowy road, bad light… There is a whole bunch of parameters to be taken into account.
That’s why I give myself 5 years to try to capture the most beautiful spots of the southern Alps before moving to other places in the French, Swiss and Italian Alps.
I try to stay true to the atmosphere and my post process is limited to working on contrast and colors. I do not change the sky neither do I stretch the mountains. I find it quite absurd.
About David Bouscarle
I was born in Cavaillon in 1980 and grew up during the first ten years of my life in Arles. At the age of eleven, my parents returned to settle in my native region, the Luberon.
At that age, I was already very drawn to the artistic world and until I was 22, I played the guitar and several other instruments assiduously. I put my first foot in the picture following the birth of my first son. I buy a camera very quickly in order to capture all these precious moments.
Sensitive to the atmospheres and the subtle lights of my region and the Alps, native region of my grandparents where I go frequently, I very quickly begin to be attracted by landscape photography, although my young years spent in the city inevitably rub off on my eyes and also gives me a taste for lines and other urban forms.
It was not until 2012 that I decided to seriously equip myself. Living in Carpentras, I made my debut by surveying the slopes of Mt Ventoux, my favorite playground. My vision of nature and my environment are now inseparable from my photographic work, capturing these ephemeral atmospheres and these fleeting lights has become for me vital, like therapy.
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