Welcome to the country of daydreams... "Extraction Lyrique" is a series of Award winning Fine Art Photographs harvested since 2007, a testimony of discoveries made in nature. Through this "Extraction Lyrique" I am most happy to present some of my recent works, a series of abstract photographs. My images are pure discoveries and experimental artworks. You are invited to inspect them closely and let yourself discover the inner travels they may inspire. These photographs are a collaboration between my efficient camera and my artist's eye and they catch an instant in time. Courtesy of these pictures, I wish to lead you to the unknown, to a new and different vision. Actually, Art took me on several "round the world" trips since a decade, and courtesy to these many exhibits, I also had the pleasure to start shooting this collection of amazing Abstract Photographs: dozens of surprising pics were first harvested in New Zealand on 2007; then this series continued in France, Mexico, and the US, among other countries, until recently. These pictures are all representative of reality, a testimony of discoveries made in nature. It allows the viewer to embark on an imaginary voyage and complete the artwork in their own way. No graphics editing software is used to create or compose these pictures; only the artist's eye and serendipity are necessary. My camera is also the essential and perfect tool to capture, record and as faithfully as possible relay these images - communicating to us as many messages that hold the secret keys allowing access to Imaginary Voyages to which Dante refers in his Divine comedy or even Christine de Pizan in Le livre du chemin de longue estude. Christian Heck also has made an elegant case for Imaginary Voyages, as already described in the Middle Ages and appearing under the image of The celestial scale. It is only after much soul searching, some trudging along and feeling my way through the dark, after extensive research, making amazing discoveries, chance meetings and many other life experiences, at times happy and at times not, that I finally honed a finer and clearer definition of art for myself. Along with an increasingly curious and serendipitously proficient eye, and having become jaded by the day to day grind of our "adult world," I developed a thirst for serenity, such as only it can be found in nature, as well as a deep yearning for the simple, laughing, carefree world of childhood as it is perhaps to us only attainable in daydreams. Thus are the makings, the leaven and the ingredients that through me have served to concoct these wonderful tidbits for which it gives me great pleasure to share them with you in the following pages if you will, "as a feast amongst friends" I invite you to partake freely in this "Photographic harvest" so that maybe you too may "float on cloud nine." The keys to freedom may just be there in these magical images, escape awaits: look, see, dream, create and become children again as in simpler times Like as many witnesses to its existence, my images' purpose is to restore The seventh face of the die which Josef Sudek discusses in this great creator's yet little known, unsigned and undedicated key work on the path to dreams and for which it can be justly said as Ernest Haas would have it: Its colors express themselves and inherently give rise to emotions. However, in keeping with Moholy's concept of True Photography, I have neither tried to influence or to disturb the images so as to preserve the purity of the daydream into which the observer is drawn. I therefore refuse to attribute either figurative or suggestive titles to my images, by the same token refusing to direct the observer's attention in any way. Only classification references may appear in coded language, devoid of any imaginary meaning. That's how my Abstract Photography series was born that I called "Extraction Lyrique": they are like keys that open the world of imaginary travels.