The Photographer

My name is Patrick Dieudonné; I am a freelance professional photographer living in Lorraine, France. After a career teaching French Literature in Lycées (secondary high school) I decided to become a full-time travel and landscape photographer.

I can bring to life many of your ideas with my stock photography, home decor art prints, or web design.

 

Credentials:

 

My images are now distributed worldwide by three major picture libraries, Robert Harding World Imagery, London (please type 770 in the search box to see my images), Alamy and Getty Images (USA, the world's leading agency). Pictures are also available in prints or posters at art.com or allposters.fr.

All images present in my gallery are available for licensing and art prints at very affordable prices.

 

Images of Tuscany also selected by major agencies.

 

 

About my photographic work:

 

- 3 exhibitions in the biggest French and European nature photography festival of Montier en Der (1999, 2005, 2006) and various exhibitions in other places.

- Numerous french awards from the Fédération Photographique de France (amongst others, Best nature photographer of Alsace-Lorraine in 1999 - Second Author Prize in the national nature contest in 2003)

- International awards and national french selections in FIAP (Fédération Internationale d'Art Photographique) nature photography contests (1999-2003)

Some of my recent clients: Agence de L'Eau Seine-Normandie, Veolia Eau, Chambre de Métiers de la Meuse, mairie d'Epernay en Champagne, Northlink Ferries, Scotland Tourism...

 

About my two last exhibitions at Montier-en-Der (click on the link for special pages):

 

Ecosse, de Roc et de Vent (2005, medium and large format panoramic photography of Scotland and Shetland landscapes)

 

Vallées de Marne, Vallées de Vie (2006, commissioned work for the Agence de l'Eau Seine-Normandie - main french agency in charge of helping water users and representatives with technical and financial assistance)

 

Excerpts from published works: contribution to reference book "Birds of Shetland" www.nhbs.com; an article (texts and photographs) against legalization of the ivory trade, another article "Okavango, fleuve des sables" in a french magazine "Vivre avec les Oiseaux".

 

Specialities:

 

My first photographic love story was with birds: I have travelled extensively in Europe and Africa to photograph nature and birds and follow them on their migration routes.

A first trip to Shetland in 1998 (mainly for bird photography) opened my eyes to the world of landscape photography in medium and large format.
Many trips to Scotland, Shetland, Ireland, Italy, England, Greece, France, Africa (Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Oman) followed, and landscape and travel photography became progressively dominant over nature photography, with the aim of producing pictures of suffficient high quality to be accepted in major stock agencies.
Medium and large format have changed my photography towards a more patient and reflexive approach, and developed also my technical skills.

 

After moving to professional photography, I have developed other specialities to respond to various demands, amongst them aerial photography, still life photography and equine photography.

 

I am currently working more than before on my region in France, Lorraine and Meuse department. This is a pleasant country, whith a rich and too often dramatic historic background, nice towns and vast expanses of nature globally well preserved. See some recent photographs of Meuse river and valley here.

Internet, webdesign and other skills

 

A taste for independance and a growing interest for the web are the origin of my current skills in digital imagery and web conception and design.

This website, for example, combines various resources and languages ( PHP, Html, SQL, XML, CSS & Javascript) to obtain the flexible results I need. I use regularly softwares such as Dreamveawer, InDesign, Flash, Photoshop and others in my different projects, either for the web or in print.

 

Techniques and Gear

My tutorials

I have produced small tutorials on some techniques that I use in the field or at home to bring pictures to life the best . They will be soon on line.

 

Tutorials (soon)

 

Test Nikon D3

The Nikon D3, the first Nikon full frame, sets new standards in digital photography. More over, it comes with promising new lenses such as the 24-70/2.8. Test of the Nikon D3 very soon.

 

Pentax 67, 6x7 cm

Digital photography has recently replaced argentic in most fields of photography. But medium and large format film photography still deliver superior results in good hands. Now that the future of Fuji Velvia film, the best film ever made, is secured, my Pentax 67 II is still my preferred tool when it comes to high-definition landscape photography. See the caracteristics and beauty of the Pentax 67 II system (soon, in French)

 

Fuji GX 617 pano

Without compromises, the large format panoramic Fuji GX 617 delivers amazingly detailed and sharp pictures than can be printed at any size (soon).