notes | remi oudinot – "based on a true story" 🇫🇷 🇨🇭

Flight line walk, a short story

Last weekend, the airshow celebrating the Battle of Britain took place in Duxford. Long before the crews started the engines of their Messerschmitt, Hurricane, Lysander and other wonderful, 80 years-old flying machines, the show started on the ground, for those who had access to the flight line. A crowd of volunteers participated in giving a unique, 1940 atmosphere.

“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”
Winston Churchill

Traveling to Duxford is like playing with a time machine. Remembering that, as Churchill once said, “never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”

Exploring Iceland

It’s a country far from here. More than an island, it’s another planet. How could one not fall in love with these magnetic landscapes, so beautiful and reminiscent of the first hours of the Earth? I have started to upload more of these shots at 500px but here’s a sneak peak:

AMPA Swiss Tour 2019

Cockpit view: San Bernardino Pass (2065m) and the Swiss Alps, from Bad Ragaz, to Locarno. 🇨🇭

AMPA – Association pour le Maintien du Patrimoine Aéronautique

Time flies: Longines & RAF

A very nice review of an equally nice watch. While Longines is not a brand which comes spontaneously to my mind when discussing aviation and pilot watches, they do have a legitimacy in the field, having provided the Royal Air Force with a nice, simple, readable time instrument back in the 30s (and up to the 60s). The RAF 6b-159.

Full review by Monochrome.

Astrophoto

First attempt at “shooting stars”, from Creux du Van, Switzerland. Suboptimal conditions with an almost full moon and a thin layer of clouds. But an opportunity to learn new techniques and fool around with Lightroom sliders.

Selfie Elysée

The Elysée Photography museum will soon move to new premises, downtown, in the vicinity of Lausanne’s CFF station. I hope they will keep their old photobooth. Time for a true analog selfie.

The Alpine Chipmunk

Flying the DHC-1 Chipmunk over a beautiful winter scenery: Swiss Alps.

My work in Plateform Magazine

And I just realize that my work is available in the digital version of Plateform Magazine. What I wrote 6 years ago is still true: I want my photographs to be like the first 5 lines of a novel. That’s why I always put a character in them.

No, you can’t have my username.

I regularly receive messages from Instagram users asking me if I can give or sell them my username (@remi). The answer is “no” for several reasons:

1/ Being named “remi” is not a sufficient reason. It’s also my first name and we are a few millions in this case.

2/ I was one of the very first users of Instagram, back in October 2010 (somewhere around the 1500th user). This allowed me to secure and use this perfect username. This is not your case, I know. Sorry.

3/ Instagram’s terms of use do not allow usernames to be traded.

Now, if you park a brand new Porsche 718S “Miami Blue” in front of my house and hand me the keys in exchange, I might hesitate.

Greetings to all the Remi of the world.