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  <title>Thomas Parisot — Photographie</title>
  <subtitle>Séries photo sur pellicules argentiques et numériques.</subtitle>
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  <updated>2022-09-02T20:45:00Z</updated>
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    <name>Thomas Parisot</name>
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    <id>https://thom4.net/photography/ferme-du-bec-hellouin/</id>
    <title>Ferme du Bec‑Hellouin</title>
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    <updated>2015-03-15T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>This <a href="http://www.fermedubec.com/en/" class="external-link" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" aria-label="farm (ouvre un nouvel onglet)">farm</a> is a pioneer of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permaculture" class="external-link" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" aria-label="permaculture (ouvre un nouvel onglet)">permaculture</a> in France. This is where I got to learn the theory and practice of these environment and human friendly principles.</p>
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    <link rel="enclosure" type="image/jpeg" href="https://thom4.net/photography/feed/10160003.jpg" title="First contact with the soil and the vegetables it hosts.March is a transitional season as we gradually clear out winter beds and move towards preparing summer crops." />
    <link rel="enclosure" type="image/jpeg" href="https://thom4.net/photography/feed/10160005.jpg" title="March is still cold around here. Mornings are usually very foggy until 11am.Time gets suspended, life seems to be on hold." />
    <link rel="enclosure" type="image/jpeg" href="https://thom4.net/photography/feed/10160006.jpg" title="We learn animal traction is good as it packs the soil gently and does not destroy its inner life ecosystem.Plus horses gives you manure for free. Well, in exchange of food – they definitely accommodate themselves with our organic kitchen wastes." />
    <link rel="enclosure" type="image/jpeg" href="https://thom4.net/photography/feed/10160007.jpg" title="A sunny afternoon would not go well without a nap or some chill out time." />
    <link rel="enclosure" type="image/jpeg" href="https://thom4.net/photography/feed/10160008.jpg" title="The soil gets covered to protect it from the cold but also to stimulate organic life and to attract worms to upper layers." />
    <link rel="enclosure" type="image/jpeg" href="https://thom4.net/photography/feed/10220001.jpg" title="We create mounds to elevate the crops from the soil and to give them more space to grow their roots. It is also a good way to prevent them to be soaked in water." />
    <link rel="enclosure" type="image/jpeg" href="https://thom4.net/photography/feed/10220002.jpg" title="The huge fireplace attracts many of us during the chilled evenings." />
    <link rel="enclosure" type="image/jpeg" href="https://thom4.net/photography/feed/10220005.jpg" title="The week is already over. The group disbands in a relaxed ambiance, the heart filled with energy and a will to bring the newly acquired knowledge back to our homes.I have the feeling growing my own vegs is a natural thing to do, and a great way to sought for tranquility." />
    <link rel="enclosure" type="image/jpeg" href="https://thom4.net/photography/feed/CNV00012.jpg" title="This time I make sure to explore the surroundings. Le Bec-Hellouin is a listed village due to its ancient (and gorgeous) abbey." />
    <link rel="enclosure" type="image/jpeg" href="https://thom4.net/photography/feed/CNV00015.jpg" title="The disposition of the farm has changed in a year time, especially as it it is now a different season of the year. It is actually quite warm and sunny. Very different from early springtide.Nature is flourishing; the green colour is omnipresent and we are all eager to get our hands dirty!" />
    <link rel="enclosure" type="image/jpeg" href="https://thom4.net/photography/feed/CNV00019.jpg" title="I think we are planting beetroots. They were kept in a glasshouse during spring to help develop the crops and transfer them when the outside temperature is warm enough for them to mature." />
    <link rel="enclosure" type="image/jpeg" href="https://thom4.net/photography/feed/CNV00023.jpg" title="Marc is a wizard of the soil and wild plants. He shows us how to analyse it and to observe its composition.This is useful to help seed the right species in a soil structure they can accommodate with." />
    <link rel="enclosure" type="image/jpeg" href="https://thom4.net/photography/feed/CNV00025.jpg" title="This is what a good humus looks like. Clean, light and airy.I do not know why, but it smells good and looks like the right colour." />
    <link rel="enclosure" type="image/jpeg" href="https://thom4.net/photography/feed/CNV00032.jpg" title="They look useless but they are viciously nagging slugs and cleaning every piece of the land they can access." />
    <link rel="enclosure" type="image/jpeg" href="https://thom4.net/photography/feed/CNV00033.jpg" title="One of my favourite thing is crops combination: a good use of time and space as well as nutrions interactions between the plants!" />
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    <link rel="enclosure" type="image/jpeg" href="https://thom4.net/photography/feed/CNV00041.jpg" title="We are about to create our own stack of compost by combining organic waste, green cuts and horse manure.In three to six months time, this will have been decomposed by worms and turned into a clean humus." />
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    <link rel="enclosure" type="image/jpeg" href="https://thom4.net/photography/feed/CNV00050.jpg" title="A wild plant potion. Once diluted in water and spread over plants, it will heal them from mushrooms." />
    <link rel="enclosure" type="image/jpeg" href="https://thom4.net/photography/feed/CNV00052.jpg" title="We harvest wild plants to create a new potion. This one will naturally prevent crops to be eaten by various insects.Nature already provides everything to fertilise and protect it from insects and disease.Wild plants is my strongest take-away from this second week at the farm." />
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    <id>https://thom4.net/photography/walthamstow-marshes/</id>
    <title>Walthamstow Marshes</title>
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    <updated>2015-06-06T00:00:00Z</updated>
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    <link rel="enclosure" type="image/jpeg" href="https://thom4.net/photography/feed/CNV00002.jpg"  />
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    <id>https://thom4.net/photography/estonia/</id>
    <title>Estonia</title>
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    <updated>2016-03-16T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>A friend of mine recommended me Estonia for its hiking trails. I thought it would be nice to spend my 33<sup>rd</sup> birthday in a tent pitched in the forest.</p>
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    <link rel="enclosure" type="image/jpeg" href="https://thom4.net/photography/feed/CNV00024.jpg" title="I notice three things as I arrive in Tallinn:chimney towers;snow is prevalent;the light is sublime." />
    <link rel="enclosure" type="image/jpeg" href="https://thom4.net/photography/feed/CNV00017.jpg" title="People are proud of their country. They fought hard to remove signs and symbols of the communist occupancy.Even the snow is proud of Estonia." />
    <link rel="enclosure" type="image/jpeg" href="https://thom4.net/photography/feed/CNV00013.jpg" title="Playgrounds are everywhere." />
    <link rel="enclosure" type="image/jpeg" href="https://thom4.net/photography/feed/CNV00005.jpg" title="Small isles of shops are also everywhere." />
    <link rel="enclosure" type="image/jpeg" href="https://thom4.net/photography/feed/CNV00002.jpg" title="Chimneys are the new skyscrapers." />
    <link rel="enclosure" type="image/jpeg" href="https://thom4.net/photography/feed/CNV00031.jpg" title="One hundred years of Suletud." />
    <link rel="enclosure" type="image/jpeg" href="https://thom4.net/photography/feed/CNV00028.jpg" title="A cemetery in a forest. Accompanied with snow blasts and burts of sunlight." />
    <link rel="enclosure" type="image/jpeg" href="https://thom4.net/photography/feed/CNV00004.jpg" title="First day out of town. I had to read an information panel to learn I am walking on sand dunes. The cold temperature make them hard as stone." />
    <link rel="enclosure" type="image/jpeg" href="https://thom4.net/photography/feed/CNV00001.jpg" title="A few minutes after the snow stops falling, a sunny spell highlights this small hamlet." />
    <link rel="enclosure" type="image/jpeg" href="https://thom4.net/photography/feed/CNV00023.jpg" title="The hail shower quickly moves away to reveal this former soviet submarine base." />
    <link rel="enclosure" type="image/jpeg" href="https://thom4.net/photography/feed/CNV00018.jpg" title="The day I observed swans bathing in ponds formed by frozen sea water.I still have 5 kilometres to go to catch a bus before dusk takes over." />
    <link rel="enclosure" type="image/jpeg" href="https://thom4.net/photography/feed/CNV00117.jpg" title="I missed the bus because I misread the timetable. I have to wait 40 minutes more before the next one.These blokes drank beer this entire time, thirsty as if they were coming back from a desert of some sort.The bus driver will drop me in the forest by night. I forgot my gloves on the bus and still have to pitch my tent in the dark." />
    <link rel="enclosure" type="image/jpeg" href="https://thom4.net/photography/feed/CNV00016.jpg" title="It is so cold it took me 30 minutes to fold my tent.People don't camp by these temperatures, nor their hike on long distances either." />
    <link rel="enclosure" type="image/jpeg" href="https://thom4.net/photography/feed/CNV00010.jpg" title="Everything is white and cold. My brain stops thinking at some point.Or it keeps banging around the same ideas over and over." />
    <link rel="enclosure" type="image/jpeg" href="https://thom4.net/photography/feed/CNV00008.jpg" title="It is nearly noon and I have already walked 19 kilometres in the snow.The city looks empty, and I can only hear echoes of cars gliding on the tarmac." />
    <link rel="enclosure" type="image/jpeg" href="https://thom4.net/photography/feed/CNV00007.jpg" title="Temperatures are gowing to dive below -8°C tonight so I decide to stop the outdoor adventure and go to Tartu instead.The next train is in 30 minutes, then in 4 hours. Sadly for me, I was waiting on the wrong platform: 30 seconds to board is not enough! I will have to go back to Tallinn to then be able to go to Tartu.PS: I love the logo of their railway company!" />
    <link rel="enclosure" type="image/jpeg" href="https://thom4.net/photography/feed/CNV00305.jpg" title="I love the wooden architecture of Estonian houses. Or maybe it is about the combination of decay and soft colours." />
    <link rel="enclosure" type="image/jpeg" href="https://thom4.net/photography/feed/CNV00302.jpg" title="Outdoor playgrounds are fun only with vivid and bright colours!" />
    <link rel="enclosure" type="image/jpeg" href="https://thom4.net/photography/feed/CNV00301.jpg" title="Today I do not want to walk but I can't stop enjoying the various gems of architecture, and colours, and the light…" />
    <link rel="enclosure" type="image/jpeg" href="https://thom4.net/photography/feed/CNV00319.jpg" title="As if a picture was worth a thousand words." />
    <link rel="enclosure" type="image/jpeg" href="https://thom4.net/photography/feed/CNV00320.jpg" title="The only covered market I found during my trip. Supermarkets largely took over." />
    <link rel="enclosure" type="image/jpeg" href="https://thom4.net/photography/feed/CNV00418.jpg" title="Three kilometres to go before arriving to my shelter: a small house by the lake with a fireplace. I will treat myself with noodles." />
    <link rel="enclosure" type="image/jpeg" href="https://thom4.net/photography/feed/CNV00423.jpg" title="I do not know if they purposely chose the same paint colour as the sky." />
    <link rel="enclosure" type="image/jpeg" href="https://thom4.net/photography/feed/CNV00422.jpg" title="The only source of sound are the crows, nesting nearby.Well, almost: the thick layer of ice covering the 270km2 lake profoundly squeaks as it plows under its own weight.Like a whale in deep sea." />
    <link rel="enclosure" type="image/jpeg" href="https://thom4.net/photography/feed/CNV00420.jpg" title="Happy 33rd birthday Tom!Thank you my lovely 😊" />
    <link rel="enclosure" type="image/jpeg" href="https://thom4.net/photography/feed/CNV00517.jpg" title="This moment made me think of the Clifton suspension bridge in Bristol.I wish you were there." />
    <link rel="enclosure" type="image/jpeg" href="https://thom4.net/photography/feed/CNV00516.jpg" title="Walls are a democratic way of expression if you think about it.Colours, again and again." />
    <link rel="enclosure" type="image/jpeg" href="https://thom4.net/photography/feed/CNV00515.jpg" title="The last ray of lights of my last day in Estonia.And Benoit just sent me an email." />
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    <id>https://thom4.net/photography/crossness/</id>
    <title>Crossness</title>
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    <updated>2016-04-10T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossness_Pumping_Station" class="external-link" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" aria-label="Crossness pumping station (ouvre un nouvel onglet)">Crossness pumping station</a> is a jewel of Victorian architecture. It will take you <em>half the duration of a Eurostar journey</em> to reach it by public transportations.</p>
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    <link rel="enclosure" type="image/jpeg" href="https://thom4.net/photography/feed/CNV00013.jpg" title="Someone used to sit here all day — and maybe all night too." />
    <link rel="enclosure" type="image/jpeg" href="https://thom4.net/photography/feed/CNV00011.jpg" title="The metallic floor rumbles as the beam endlessly swings up and down.Only to remember this beauty used to pump our wee, poop and other waste we prefer not to think about." />
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    <id>https://thom4.net/photography/oregon/</id>
    <title>Oregon</title>
    <link href="https://thom4.net/photography/oregon/" hreflang="en-GB" />
    <updated>2016-07-21T18:09:37Z</updated>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>A region balanced between the moist of the <em>Pacific</em> and the dryness of the desert… not to mention the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascade_Range" class="external-link" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" aria-label="Cascades (ouvre un nouvel onglet)">Cascades</a> and its volcanic chain as well as its <em>hip</em> city, Portland!</p>
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    <link rel="enclosure" type="image/jpeg" href="https://thom4.net/photography/feed/02360013.jpg" title="My first contact ever with the Pacific Ocean.Raw, wild and windy." />
    <link rel="enclosure" type="image/jpeg" href="https://thom4.net/photography/feed/02360005.jpg" title="A few kilometres on the trail later, there is nobody else around anymore.I can only hear the wind and start shivering a bit in spite of my jumper." />
    <link rel="enclosure" type="image/jpeg" href="https://thom4.net/photography/feed/02350013.jpg" title="Spectacular. It is definitely the feeling I get when my feet first reach the edge of the North rim.The West rim is closed because of a forest fire so I will have to circle around it by the East rim." />
    <link rel="enclosure" type="image/jpeg" href="https://thom4.net/photography/feed/02350022.jpg" title="There is nobody at the top of Mount Scoot at 8am.Winds are quite strong and the view slightly covered by mist on the East side." />
    <link rel="enclosure" type="image/jpeg" href="https://thom4.net/photography/feed/02350023.jpg" title="It is worth hiking to the top of Mount Scott to benefit from a wide and clear view of the lake.The fire is not yet contained but we can hardly notice it anymore." />
    <link rel="enclosure" type="image/jpeg" href="https://thom4.net/photography/feed/02350008.jpg" title="The sun rises above the tip of the pine trees right for 8am.In the meantime, I enjoy a warm bath in a very minimal skinsuit in spite of the fresh temperature." />
    <link rel="enclosure" type="image/jpeg" href="https://thom4.net/photography/feed/02340032.jpg" title="I leave Oregon tomorrow but I have been recommended to visit the little town of Mitchell.The road reveals a very dry landscape: a pale cream limestone sandy soil scarcely topped with green trees." />
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    <link rel="enclosure" type="image/jpeg" href="https://thom4.net/photography/feed/02340024.jpg" title="Not to mention the curious shelter itself." />
    <link rel="enclosure" type="image/jpeg" href="https://thom4.net/photography/feed/02340020.jpg" title="Rounded, layery and curvy.Behind, a gradient of blue sky ending in dark and stormy cloudy chasing the sunsetting sun." />
    <link rel="enclosure" type="image/jpeg" href="https://thom4.net/photography/feed/02340011.jpg" title="I have rarely seen such a breadth of impressive landscapes, wild and majestic, on the very edge of the main road.Before making my way back and sleep on a church parking lot, I remind myself to uncap one of these delicious hopped beverage from Deschutes Brewery." />
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