Athena Carey Photography

Still Life Challenge – Glass Bottles

Reflective surfaces can be quite a challenge, but much easier to manage with my new lights.

Recycled Glass (seriously)

Purple Perfume Bottle

Bottles and Beads

Crystal Perfume Bottle

Empty Bottles

Take Me There

Tanah Lot, Bali Indonesia

French Fry Day

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L’Imparfait

The imperfect tense in French is used to express the distant past, past habits and conditions that no longer exist.
To form the imperfect, conjugate the verb for “vous”, drop the “ez” ending and replace with the following:

For example:

Exceptions:
Verbs ending in ger retain the “e” in all forms except nous and vous.

Verbs ending in “cer” the “c” changes to “ç”.

Riesen

More chocolate, this time one that I actually eat.

French Fry Day

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Passé Composé (Part 2)

It is a compound conjugation, meaning it is has two parts, the present tense of the auxilary verb (either avoir or être) plus the past participle of the main verb.

Another way to make the passé composé is with the verb être.  When the auxiliary verb is être, the past participle must agree with the subject.

Some past participles:
arriver – arrivé
entrer – entré
monter – monté
passer – passé
rester – resté
aller – allé

So the Passè Composè:
Je suis arrivé.
Tu es entré.
Il est monté.  Elle est montée.
Nous sommes passés.
Vous êtes resté.
Ils sont allés.  Elles sont allées.

Chocolate and Wine

They are only better with friends.

French Fry Day

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Passé Composé (Part 1)

Passé Composé in French has three English language equivalents.
For example, the following sentence  ”J’ai mangè.” in English could mean:
1.  I ate. (simple past)
2.  I have eaten. (present perfect)
3.  I did eat. (past emphatic)

It is a compound conjugation, meaning it is has  two parts, the present tense of the auxilary verb (either avoir or être) plus the past participle of the main verb.

Let’s begin with the present tense of  AVOIR and the past participle of the main verb.

Some past participles:
Acheter (to buy) – acheté
Manger (to eat) – mangé
Boire (to drink) – bu
Dire  (to say) – dit
Écrire (to write) – écrit
Voir (to see) – vu

So the Passè Composè:
J’ai achetè.
Tu as mangè.
Il a bu.
Nous avons dit.
Vous avez  écrit.
Elles ont  vu.

Indulgence

Time to get back to some photography.
One of my goals this year is to master small flash photography, so until it drives me insane, that is the lighting I’ll be using.

This shot is tighter and a fair bit lighter.  On my laptop the image above is quite dark, but on my desktop it’s lovely.
Time for a monitor calibration!

French Fry Day

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I am going to focus on verbs for awhile – cringe.  At least they are present tense.  For now.
Here are two common “re” verbs.

French Fry Day

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Verbs ending in IR follow a different pattern than verbs ending in ER.