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At play in the skies of Paris

Friday 21 July 2017

"It’s been days, but I’m still having trouble coming back down to earth," writes Nantes-based photographer Jean-Sebastien Evrard. "To spend more than two hours circling above Paris in a military helicopter on France’s national day is not an experience one quickly forgets."

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Slashed by a sea monster

Thursday 18 June 2015

"The Spindrift 2 is the world’s largest racing trimaran. An extraordinary sailboat. Forty metres long, it holds a round-the-world record and frequently hits speeds of more than 45 knots – or 85 kilometres per hour," writes the AFP photographer Jean-Sebastien Evrard. "At full speed, its rudders and daggerboards are sharp as razor blades. Not something you wish to see hurtling towards you out at sea. Yet that is what I witnessed, on June 16 in the afternoon, off the coast from Lorient in Brittany."

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