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The invisible landscape

I live in Hettange-Grande, a small town in eastern France, in an area that few would consider an ideal destination for nature or landscape photography. For a long time, I lived under this idea and considered that there was nothing worth capturing in my surroundings. Then I changed my mind. Mainly because as my interest in photography grew, I learned to look at the world around me differently; to pay attention to the light, the weather, the season changes, the variations of colors of the vegetation, the shapes of the trees, the details of the plants, the flowers, etc., to finally realize that it was entirely possible to celebrate the beauty of nature through photography without having to visit distant and grandiose landscapes. I am now convinced that image opportunities are all around us if we make the effort to discover them.

This collection of images illustrates this journey of discovery of a landscape that is both familiar and new. It is an invisible landscape: if we do not pay attention to it, it disappears into the banality of everyday life and fades away when compared with the prestigious sceneries that populate our visual memory. Many of the subjects represented here are accessible by walking from my home, and all within a maximum radius of one hour by car. For some, I have walked past them for years without ever paying attention. I'm glad to finally pay the invisible landscape a humble tribute through these images.

What about you, do you also live close to an invisible landscape?

July 2021
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Thumbnail for photo: Cattenom's ponds 1, Lorraine, 2021
Thumbnail for photo: Sunrise on ice, Cattenom's ponds, 2021
Thumbnail for photo: Cattenom's ponds 2, Lorraine, 2021
Thumbnail for photo: Tree in sunrise, Cattenom, 2020
Thumbnail for photo: Misty sunrise, Cattenom's ponds, 2021
Thumbnail for photo: Moon trees, Hettange Grande, 2020
Thumbnail for photo: Boust church, Lorraine, 2020
Thumbnail for photo: Garches forest 1, Lorraine, 2020
Thumbnail for photo: Twin oak trees, Garches, 2020
Thumbnail for photo: Dancing tree, Lachaussée, 2021
Thumbnail for photo: Poplar in sunrise, Cattenom's ponds, 2020
Thumbnail for photo: Trees and common reeds, Hettange Grande, 2021
Thumbnail for photo: V-shaped tree, Hettange Grande, 2021
Thumbnail for photo: Bent trees, Haard reserve, Dudelange, 2020
Thumbnail for photo: Blooming tree, Hettange Grande, 2021
Thumbnail for photo: Hettange Grande's forest, Lorraine, 2021
Thumbnail for photo: Symmetric trees, Algrange, 2020
Thumbnail for photo: Birch trees 2, Haard Nature Reserve, Luxembourg
Thumbnail for photo: Birch trees on rocks, Haard Nature Reserve, Luxembourg
Thumbnail for photo: The ghost, Hettange Grande, 2021
Thumbnail for photo: Spring trees, Hettange Grande, 2021
Thumbnail for photo: Woodland Floor, Guentrange, 2021
Thumbnail for photo: Lone sunflower, Hettange Grande, 2020
Thumbnail for photo: Sunflower, Hettange Grande, 2020
Thumbnail for photo: Fields and flowers, Rodemack, 2020
Thumbnail for photo: Ice pearls, Cattenom's ponds, 2021
Thumbnail for photo: Frozen leave, Cattenom's ponds, 2021
Thumbnail for photo: Reeds leaves in ice, Remerschen lakes, 2021
Thumbnail for photo: Monkey puzzle tree, Hettange Grande, 2021
Thumbnail for photo: Ivy and trunk, Hettange Grande, 2021
All images © 2017-2021 Christophe Noël
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