About Jean Ruaud

frenchman, parisian, urban, dreamer, photographer, translator, geek, diletante, blogger since 2001

photolog : Empreintes

I'm Male.

Mnémoglyphes
Paris, France

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Power Lines Amateur Digital Photography/Help and Ideas Urban Nature Autoportrait aPeeling Paint FlickrCentral New York City Twin Lens Reflex Typepaders Bloggers Paris Buddhism - practice and philosophy Moleskinerie Breizh A Year in the Life Sky French-Français BLACK AND WHITE PHOTO HEAVEN! Window Shopping Wallpapers (1024x768 minimum) SHOP WINDOW New York life Tell a story in 5 frames (Visual story telling) In Numerical Order StreetPhoto flower power Blue Hue B&W Doors & Windows Project Green is Beautiful ROUGE. nighthawks Beautiful Clouds Trains and Trolleys Photographes Francophones The Unofficial JPG Magazine Group Reflections France red! urban explorers Seascapes and Shorelines Trees shadows Closer and Closer Macro Photography Urban Decay Blurvision Photo Cool Outdoor Pics Aeroplane In Flight walls train stations -+- gares -+- bahnhöfe FlickrSocial (two or more people in the photo) Technique Leaves (No Trees Please!!!) squareFormat In A Row from ABOVE subway Café du coin Metro Weekly Theme: STANDSTILL Pictures With Stories - 5 sentence MINIMUM umbrella Flower Macro ~FIVE photos per day~ Faux Vintage Bricks osanpo camera / お散歩カメラ Minimalism Underfoot Zugfahrt - Traintravelling Street Feet THE GALLERIA /please..Only post on your turn / read the rules Lumix The ground beneath... (read rules!!) Pranks and Practical Jokes Urban Flattened Repetition Utata Texture zen Favorites Urban Fragments (No People) metros (around the world) shop dummies soledad Desk Space Rain in the city... and in the country Boites aux lettres parisiennes stone faces Lomo Fakers League My Shadow Memory Maps Urban Abstracts Flickr Parisian Gathering! ** Just Windows! spots of light every thing looking like a face but faces Hands And Fingers City Limits Lions and chimeras on the country side CONEs Hug People reading (Add 1 comment 1) People in Black & White iFlickr Remarkable Shop Signs ride by shooting Ceilings ... Nothing but Funny Funny Ceilings Strikingly Different \| one image, two similar but different subj BICYCLE in the street Nobody is there Sheds Lubitel Streetshots (people in the street) 1-2-3 Red and Blue Heartbeat Modern City Views (see description) People in the City New York City Photos Vanishing Beauty - Please read the group description! No people (No landscape’s please. ) bicycle Eiffel Tower Monochromatic world Street Lamps Minimalist art Street Names Property Numbers Old and New (contrasted) Guess where ? / Devine où Paris ? Less is more Montmartre Tiles Tiles Tiles Church Interiors Spots The View from my Window The FLICKYS !!! Post, Letter & Mail Boxes Blue is my favorite color View From The Window >> Visit Paris Gothamist Surfaces Brown and Beige Unlimited! TRAVELPIX Decorative Paraphernalia Group Announcements GREATPIX Hooks L.A. SUNSET&RISEPIX	NATUREPIX CATPIX FLOWERPIX PEOPLEPIX Angels and Cherubs wiring / 配線 piping / 配管 B&W DREAMS Métro parisien Parisist faux lomo Noir & Blanc (tag: "noiretblanc") Interestingness \| Must be in Top 10 bright colors on grey - no cutouts everyday paris FRANCEPIX Table Games Metro Parisien 100 views + 10 favourites (unlimited) Photographic Impressionism Cloud Junkie Low key The Real Street Photography MAXIMUM minimalism Bestiaire Parisien Never too old to enjoy life Only hands Feathery fd's Flickr Toys 2005 ,September, 29th - http://adayonearth.org 1 PIC. HERE Monday Smile :-) drive \| zooommmm MACROPIX Sens interdit Musical References (don't forget to tag!) Down the river Wallpaper and Backgrounds Contemporary Landscape FlickrToday (only 1 pic per day) Tough Street Photography Coiled Knotted Twisted Initially Abbreviated Object Sky A-List Cimetières parisiens / Paris Cemeteries Caryatids and Atlantes Paris, 18e arrondissement (75018) the skies above Notre-Dame de Paris Prayer Flags Beautiful Brass One Feather Single Leaf Extravaganza lol! SMILEY One SeaShell Bud Exploring Paris The Animals Went in Two by Two (2 animals only!) West LA Martin Parr WE ♥ U William Eggleston scenes from new york city Ant's Angle A Portrait of the Artist --(statues of artists) poetic shadows on walls Subtopia Paris Churches / Eglises parisiennes my secret garden A cup of tea Art by Nature Mascarons Choo Choo Views mnml FRANCEcentral (00:00:01)/01/01/2006/FirstPix Faded Wilted Withered (flowers, leaves and plants) Cofee shop, au café Precinct 13 Bread Urban Microscapes Street Photography Masterpieces (BEST OF THE BEST CURATED POOL) Monsieur Chat Paris París Parigi (no postcard pics) Scout Posters People in Public Transport HOPPEResque Boulevard Saint-Germain Je d'ombres / set of shades of Me Photosites and other personal sites Benches, bancs, bancos y banquillos Fluorescent Lamps So Much Beauty in Dirt photo Paris EDWARD HOPPER an ode to the artist Synchronicity and Photo Touraine Paris Photobloggers The Biggest Group! Playground For Psychotics Flick-O-System: ? degrees of separation B&WPIX (1/day) Criticism Welcome Bixby Bridge FLICKR B&W STREET shots making you SMILE - (winner: shveckle) Between Theme! Moving Picture verdeblu The Tabblo Gallery/ 2 per day max. !afterclass! Sense of Place Scrawls on Walls Lights by Day sanddrawings Democratic Forest Photographes amateurs francais A Day On Earth, September 29th archidose Nikon D80 Users *A Big Fave (Invite Only)-Post 1/Fave or Comment 2 At war with the obvious Man Ray Gallery - blank walls till next show Lee Friedlander (inspired by) Leisure disaffection Slice of life, building slice !Etudes! L'angle Nature in Black and White Black and Black Views: 3 Manhattan Is An Island D80 en français You Know You Need Unique New York Suburban Frontyards International Desert Island Challenge : 24 books abstraction:distraction Already-made Reading Stack Paris par arrondissements 24 hours of Flickr Richard Brautigan The Temporary Gallery Bench Life "RICHARD ESTES" an ode to the artist of PHOTO-REALISM Picture New York Passionately Pink for the Cure Fragmented Urban Language FELIX GONZALEZ-TORRES gentilly wearing band / singer tee shirt Soul Art Blurvision video

A bit more about Jean Ruaud...

Hometown:	Paris
Occupation:	diletante
Interests:	photography, Internet, blogs, books, landscapes, cities, Paris, London, New-York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, California, USA, wilderness, desert, plains, trees, forests, meteorology, english countryside, Britany, comics, music, writing, computers, tv series, english language, art, modern art, architecture, design
Favorite Books & Authors:	Jacques Réda, Jean Echenoz, Eric Chevillard, Michel Butor, Gabriel Garcia-Marquez, Albert Cohen, Charles Dickens, Neal Stephenson, Thomas Pynchon, David Foster-Wallace, Jean Rolin, Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Patrick Deville, Raymond Carver, John Fante, Jim Harrison, George Perec
Favorite Movies, Stars & Directors:	Nanni Moretti, Federico Felini, François Truffaut, Woody Allen, Wim Wenders, Clint Eastwood, Stanley Kubrick, Tim Burton, Cohen brothers, Robert Redford, Quentin Tarantino, Francis Coppola, Hayao Miyazaki, Ozu, Pixar Anime, Emma Thompson, Umma Thurman, Kevin Costner, Sam Shepard
Favorite Music & Artists:	Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Neil Young, Radiohead, Wilco, REM, Low, Mùm, Sigur Ros, Morcheeba, Massive Attack, Howe Gelb, Calexico, Neko Case, Andrew Bird, Nirvana, Keith Jarret, Wynton Marsalis, Cowboy Junkies, The Doors, Rolling Stones, The Beatles

Testimonials

balidar says:
"bueno, I d'ont speak english very well du tout, or donc je me vois là en charge de quelque chose qui me dépasse un peu, but I have to say you are a great photograph from Paris!"

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