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Notes on light, places, and the art of seeing. In French and English.

Autumn in Provence is the season that most photographers keep to themselves. The crowds of August are gone. The light changes completely — lower, warmer, arriving at a longer angle from September through November. The vineyards turn amber and red. The garrigue releases its oils into the cooling air. For a wedding, it is the […]

Provence in Autumn: The Season Most Wedding Photographers Keep to Themselves

Wedding photography on the Côte d'Azur by Guillaume Gimenez

Provence produces some of the finest rosé in the world, and the vineyards that surround its châteaux and domaines are among the most visually compelling wedding settings available anywhere in France. Vines in rows, stone cellars, terracotta roof tiles, and light that arrives warm and golden — vineyard weddings in Provence have a quality that […]

Vineyard Wedding Photography in Provence

Wedding photography among Provence vineyards by Guillaume Gimenez

There is a three-week window each year — roughly the last week of June through the second week of July — when the lavender fields of Provence are at full bloom. The colour is not the purple of a paint chart; it is richer, more complex, shifting between violet and blue depending on how the […]

Lavender Season Wedding Photography in Provence

Wedding photography among lavender fields in Provence