A little less than a year ago, I decided to clean up this gallery. I had closed my cosplay photography website for six months, it was the last place I still had pictures up and I could not look at them anymore.

It took me quite some time to be able to take a camera again.
Then some more time to think of cosplay photography as something I wanted to try again.
I think the decisive factor for me was joining Objectif Costumes. The association itself has some problems (mostly poor planning), but looking at cosplay pictures with a critical eye made me realize I still had something to bring into the mix.

I installed Lightroom, began to sort my pictures, re-processed old photoshoots :
Naruto
Harry Potter
Anthy (Utena)

Back in July, for Japan Expo, I had planned to come and help at the studio we had, but did not think I would do some photoshoots myself. I had brought my DSLR for the first time at a con in more than a year and a half, but I only wanted to do backstage photos. But somehow, I ended up doing four photoshoots in two days, which was little compared to most of the photographers, but quite an achievement for me.
Franken Stein (Soul Eater)
Sasuke (Naruto Shippuden)
D Gray Man
Euphemia & Cornelia (Code Geass)

I had a photoshoot planned at the end of july, so I bought myself a new 50/1.8 lens. The point was to have this favorite lens of mine again, since losing it was one of the events that had made me question my photography skills. The photoshoot was postponed (until october), but I had my portrait lens back, and it was a big thing.

A week ago, I was back from the first con of the autumn, Paris Manga, with pictures from the con itself, but also from an improvised Resident Evil photoshoot

Finally yesterday I went to "Harajuku Festival" (an event held in a park in Paris) and took pictures from the con, and again a small photoshoot, with character from Macross Frontier this time.

The next step will be that photoshoot in october.
It will be a Naruto photoshoot, with some people from our old 2005 group - which had been my very first cosplay photoshoot, and was a great memory.
The circle will be complete, and I think I will be back for good.