Le Havre Volcano
This is the center of the city. It is called "Le Volcan", but the people from le Havre call it the yogurt jar. It was designed in the 1980's by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer . It is the theater and extends to a library underground. It can be very windy over there in the winter. It is a challenge to photograph because it is big compared to the rest of the environment. If you decide to use a very wide angle, you are stuck with a perpective effect that I always try to avoid. The trick is to use wide angle lenses so that you don't immediately guess that it was shot with a wide angle. Taming the effect is actually a good exercice. For my own taste, photography should not be tagged by effects. The content only should matter. It is often too difficult and you end up not shooting the picture at all. In that case, I try to find something else.