Monte Carlo Weekly Photo

29 July 2014

Horse before Cart (Car)

Horses come before cars as they cross the street in Port Hercule. This beauty was in Monaco last month for the Show Jumping Championships.

24 July 2014

The NEW Monaco Yacht Club - the Pool

Looking from the top deck of the new Monaco Yacht Club, we see the pool and on the car side of Port Hercule, a cruise ship. The yacht club is so like a cruise ship itself that sometimes it's difficult to remember it isn't!

18 July 2014

The NEW Monaco Yacht Club

We're at the new Monaco Yacht Club today. There is a restaurant on this level and another on the highest level. As you can see, it's built like an ocean liner. See this POST.

13 July 2014

Nice, not Monaco!

Don't panic! This isn't Monte Carlo! It's Nice yesterday where police were out in force to prevent a 'Free Palaestine' protest from entering Avenue Jean-Médecin.

05 July 2014

The NEW Monaco Yacht Club

The new Monaco Yacht Club is finally open. Looks like a cruise liner, doesn't it? It had its grand opening on the 20th June with 3,000 guests including the Princely family of course.

It was designed by the studios of leading British architect, Lord Norman Foster, in collaboration with Monaco-born architect, Alexandre Giraldi, and is the new headquarters for the Monaco Yacht Club (YCM).

It was a grey day when I took this photo, but a few days ago, I went there for lunch and the sun shone! Next time we'll explore the building...

28 June 2014

Colour at Larvotto Beach

Colour at Larvotto Beach.

Monte Carlo Daily Photo is undergoing a slight change. It will now be published less often, probably a couple of times a week, hence the change of name to Monte Carlo Weekly Photo. I need to organise my time better in order to work on my book about Gorbio. Hope my loyal and much appreciated Monte Carlo follows will understand.

22 June 2014

Art Monaco - Two Fat Ladies

Two fat ladies on the forecourt of the Grimaldi Forum. A flashback to Art Monaco and sculptures by Marina.

21 June 2014

Left right, Left right ...

Left right, left right ...

20 June 2014

Wisteria

A delicate wisteria in the Japanese Garden against the hard lines of the apartment building opposite.

19 June 2014

Larvotto Beach

Larvotto Beach. I snapped this at the very end of April so you can be sure there are many more on the beach today.

18 June 2014

Art Monaco - 'Make Art Not War' - Evi Savvaidi

'Make Art Not War' is the name of this sculpture by Greek artist, Evi Savvaidi.

17 June 2014

Art Monaco - Parfum Revolte by Yves Hayat

The 'perfume of revolution' by Yves Hayat was exhibited at Art Monaco.

16 June 2014

Art Monaco - Benedicte Blanc-Fontenille

Benedicte Blanc-Fontenille is a French-born artist exhibiting at the Art Monaco exhibition which was held in in April. I commented on how well it looked against a black background but Benedicte told me it looks even better against a white background as the falling figures catch the light.

She writes:

"Life is nothing but motion. This movement is the fragility of the humans being.
That's the buried thing and the visible one, the folds that need to be unfold to access the knowledge, to achieve.
In my work, the texture evokes this fragility by playing with transparency and opacity. The colors I am using are inspired by the mineral, to translate the rebirth, the revival, perpetual motion of the cosmos.
The silhouettes of humans are appearing like a shadow caught in a snapshot whose movement is developing in the eyes of the spectator."

15 June 2014

Art Monaco - Chinwe and Jennifer

We're back at Art Monaco today and a photo of a beautiful girl, Chinwe, who was visiting the show with her friend, Jennifer. They came from London. Two lovely girls happy to pose for the photographers.