Setting up a website is a project that has been on Lucien's mind for a number of years. It wasn't until that wonderful loving encounter with Céline in February 2017 that he was able to bring it to shape and develop it.

Scène d'Ailleurs - which translates as ‘a scene from elsewhere’ - is first and foremost an irrepressible desire to discover other horizons and cultures. Their shared passion for travel has already taken them to some fifty different countries, a dozen of them since they first met. But what a vast world this is! They describe themselves as privileged travelers, who love packing their bags as much as they love coming home to their cats.

Scène d'Ailleurs is also a desire to share these moments with their loved ones. And what a better way than through photography! It is a way of giving them the chance to feel the same emotions about all the wonders that surround us, or simply to inspire them to start traveling and discover them with their own eyes.

While photography has been a part of Lucien's life since the late 80s, when he acquired his first Minolta SLR in 1988, Céline has only recently taken up photography, and her progress has been meteoric. A meeting with a great wildlife photographer on safari in Tanzania in 2019 will set the seal on this shared passion.

But Scène d'Ailleurs is above all a love affair with wildlife from all around the world.

For Lucien, a first trip to Kenya in 2008 awakened his childhood memories of rainy Sundays spent in front of the television, watching programs by Pierre Lang, the 'Mister Wildlife' of the ‘Télévision Suisse Romande’ at the time.

For her part, Céline also developed a taste for wildlife at an early age, having had a cat from a very young age and at the time enjoying inventing scenarios in her garden with snails and earthworms. She has then embarked on scuba diving and discovered the riches of aquatic fauna. Her discovery of vast stretches of untamed wilderness of Amboseli in 2017 was to finish infecting her with the wildlife virus.

Finally, it was the propagation of another ‘malicious and notorious’ virus in early 2020 that launched them into a new activity: macro photography. As opportunities to escape to discover new horizons were suddenly drastically restrained, they started to explore their garden and meet the 'People of the Grass' buried deep inside of it.

In addition to their various portfolios, you can also follow their blog, which will gradually expand to include a whole host of anecdotes and advice on photographic subjects of all kinds.

Another project close to their hearts would be to collect benefits of their activity for animal protection associations, for example by selling certain products or some of their images. But more on this in 2025.

And who knows what new adventures might bring as new ideas…