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ITER NEWSLINE -

14 May, 2018
Image of the week

Brewing storm

(Click to view larger version...)
In Provence, one gets tired of blue skies... so when the opportunity arises to capture the ITER site plunged in the darkness of an approaching storm, we rush to the windows and shoot. But because photography is not always about realism, we indulged in a bit of colour tweaking in order to render the strange and ominous atmosphere of the moment.

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