↑Christine Valin's blog

This is my first newsletter on the new site, so I hope all my friends will find it OK. The address is still cvalin.com and in future, all my newsletters will be over here. There won't be a special image, but then all my paintings will be on the album "recent paintings". As for my photos, I will regularly put on my latest images. At present, I have only put in some of my earlier ones, as I haven't had the time to put in any more. But I will do whenever I find the time.

I welcome all my new friends on Ipernity and I hope we will enjoy the contact with each other and exchange of ideas. This will be a living site, which is what I will enjoy working on, as I will be controlling it myself.

As I am coming to the end of my health problems, I will have more time to paint. This means so much to me and I will spend a lot of time preparing for my next exhibition which will be in May or June of next year. This exhibition will be held in the garden of "Val Rahmeh" in Menton and everyone is welcome to visit and maybe meet up with me. I'm looking forward to that so much.

Let me wish you all my friends, a Very Happy Christmas and all you wish for in the New Year.

I will be putting up about 15 photos a week on South India. I was there a few years ago on holiday for two weeks to see how it changed after 40 years!!! I was born there and spent 17 years in this part of the world. Lots of things had changed, but lots hadn't, so these photos are what impressed me. Hope you will enjoy them.

Although the subject is of interest, the photos are not the best! At the time, I only had a little compact camera, and never knew much about photography. I have gone a long way since, but I thought the subject would interest some people.

What colour on the streets. There is so much to see and so much to photograph! I took over 800 photos and never even deleted one. Naturally, they are of more importance to me, as I lived there. Hope they will be of interest to some of you. Enjoy them!

No more photographs on India! I hope you enjoyed them. I tried to put in the ones that would interest you. It is such a contrasting subject - The old and the new, the rich and the poor. But, what colour! Facinating!

I wish all my friends and Ipernity friends a very Happy New Year and lots of pleasure and success with their photographs. I want to thank those who made me feel welcome on this site, which made it so much more pleasant for me to join in. I'm looking forward to having lots of contacts and exchange of ideas.