Rare Pictures - Official Topic

[drove all night]

12 minutes ago, celine28 said:

From Télé 7 jours hors série apparently  

Aaaaah! YESSSS! SUPER!!!! 
May I ask you if you do have the latest release of the "Hors-Série" too?

[celine28]

6 minutes ago, drove all night said:

Aaaaah! YESSSS! SUPER!!!! 
May I ask you if you do have the latest release of the "Hors-Série" too?

No sorry 🙁, I own the gala from 2016, but not this one

[drove all night]

1 minute ago, celine28 said:

No sorry 🙁, I own the gala from 2016, but not this one

Thank you anyway for your help! In case I can find it somewhere as a pdf I can send you, if you like ...

[celine28]

1 hour ago, drove all night said:

Thank you anyway for your help! In case I can find it somewhere as a pdf I can send you, if you like ...

It would be with pleasure thank you so much  same if i find it !

[blacktooth]

On 3/26/2026 at 9:28 AM, Unison Addict said:

While i dislike AI pictures especially pictures of Celine made by it, i hate to say that nowadays AI pictures of Celine are hard to tell especially by newer fans because they are getting more realistic. Designers like Blacktooth used AI photos of her and many people were deceived. 

As a graphic editor myself, I find it surprising that some people still misunderstand this. AI is only a support tool used to upscale and recover details that are difficult to restore from damaged or low-quality photos. The purpose is not to fake or replace the original image, but to restore it as accurately as possible.

And if you don’t like the method, that’s your choice. But many restorations still involve manual refinement and careful comparison with the original source to make sure the final result remains true to the original. Remember that photo restoration, tools evolve. AI is ONLY for PROFESSIONALS. 

AI art still requires a manual process and plenty of editing. I find it strange that people can believe in and adore fictional superheroes but draw the line at AI. If we can accept 'fake' worlds in movies, why can't we accept the artistry in AI? 

[blacktooth]

People criticize blurred images, yet they also complain when those images are restored in high quality. It’s hard to understand what they actually expect. 

[woodstock]

I think it's actually very simple:

Enhanced photos : yes
Photos created from scratch : no

I guess everyone agrees !

[celine28]

6 hours ago, blacktooth said:

As a graphic editor myself, I find it surprising that some people still misunderstand this. AI is only a support tool used to upscale and recover details that are difficult to restore from damaged or low-quality photos. The purpose is not to fake or replace the original image, but to restore it as accurately as possible.

And if you don’t like the method, that’s your choice. But many restorations still involve manual refinement and careful comparison with the original source to make sure the final result remains true to the original. Remember that photo restoration, tools evolve. AI is ONLY for PROFESSIONALS. 

AI art still requires a manual process and plenty of editing. I find it strange that people can believe in and adore fictional superheroes but draw the line at AI. If we can accept 'fake' worlds in movies, why can't we accept the artistry in AI? 

Your use of IA is what I call "ethic" and you do an amazing job, really ❤️. As you said, you use AI to enhance and restore low quality pictures, it's like when AI restores low quality videos or music to make it adapted to nowadays standards. The problem I have with IA, it's when it's used by not so "ethic" people who use it to fool other people around, and create fake pictures, songs or videos from scratch and sells it as "new material", "outtakes" or "unreleased". At least, just label the thing as IA (as you do guys in the AI enhanced pictures thread), but on Instagram and Facebook, it's not the case that much. As a long time fan myself, and with the progress IA has made the last couple of years, I get fool myself sometimes and it's really frustrating when you think you found an outtake from a photoshoot, and want to share it with other fans, and then realise it's not real . Also it's really annoying these days to always have a doubt when something comes up, if it's real or AI generated (just like Celine's Residence posters that pop-up yesterday before the announcement, and some fans accounts that already created fake ones from the real one). 

[Celine0384]

[Thomas]

Poptastic on Facebook posted this nice question and answer spread from 1996, and some nice pictures too. The answers are cute! I miss things like this when people would ask random and fun questions in magazines! Good times.

 

Edited April 1, 2026 at 08:37 PM by Thomas

[Thomas]

Roddy Chong (who performed violin on To Love You More at some shows in early 1999) posted these photos in celebration of Celine's return.

[mirage]

On 4/1/2026 at 10:36 PM, Thomas said:

Poptastic on Facebook posted this nice question and answer spread from 1996, and some nice pictures too. The answers are cute! I miss things like this when people would ask random and fun questions in magazines! Good times.

 

This was a fun one! Nice find 🥰

[Matias]

[Celine Fan 77]

Behind the scenes moment at ‘René Simard vous présente’ back in 1985.

[Celine Fan 77]

Céline was joined by children choir Petits chateurs d’Asnières back in 1998 to perform ‘Let’s Talk About Love’ at her TF1 special. The choir performed with her again in 2012, this time the song Le miracle, first at ‘Céline Dion dans l’intimité’ and then at the NRJ12 special ‘We Love Céline’.

[emiliejolie]

Incredible pictures by photographer Paul Bella, to be seeing on his website https://www.bellapaul.com/celine-dion/

[Matias]

1 hour ago, emiliejolie said:

Incredible pictures by photographer Paul Bella, to be seeing on his website https://www.bellapaul.com/celine-dion/

Wow so rare! From the Incognito ohoto shoot...looks like somewhere in Paris by the chairs

[Celine Fan 77]

Super rare photos from the Céline pour les enfants benefit show in Montreal. The concert took place on August 19, 2011 and it was her only concert performance outside of Las Vegas that year. Some of the songs she performed were All By Myself, River Deep Mountain High, Pour que tu m’aimes encore, Love Can Move Mountains, Ne me quitte pas and J’irai où tu iras, which she surprisingly sang with Véronic DiCaire. I was truly surprised to find out I had saved them back in the day!

 

 

[celine2199]

This was Grammy 1998 right?So the orange man is a long-time fan...😅

[Macaronie]

On 4/5/2026 at 10:03 PM, Celine Fan 77 said:

Super rare photos from the Céline pour les enfants benefit show in Montreal. The concert took place on August 19, 2011 and it was her only concert performance outside of Las Vegas that year. Some of the songs she performed were All By Myself, River Deep Mountain High, Pour que tu m’aimes encore, Love Can Move Mountains, Ne me quitte pas and J’irai où tu iras, which she surprisingly sang with Véronic DiCaire. I was truly surprised to find out I had saved them back in the day!

 

 

That green dress is stunning 

[Davey84]

On 4/5/2026 at 8:48 PM, emiliejolie said:

Incredible pictures by photographer Paul Bella, to be seeing on his website https://www.bellapaul.com/celine-dion/

Oh wow! these are stunning!! thank you so much for finding them!! I love the first one! But the way her dress sits, makes it looks like she's got a saggy tit!   

 

[drove all night]

8 hours ago, celine2199 said:

This was Grammy 1998 right?So the orange man is a long-time fan...😅

Unfortunately it wasn't the only time. In May 1996 there was a private concert for Trump in Mar-A-Lago followed by a Chanel-Fashion-show three days later, with a.o. Céline as a model. 

They celebrated the babyshower in Mar-A-Lago in 2001.

And here are some other events where they met. https://www.celinedionweb.com/en/with-personality/donald-trump/
By that time Trump was "only" a Tycoon and since also living in Palm Beach and sharing the golf passion it's clear they knew each other.

But looks like everything changed because in 2024, Céline's management prohibited the use of “MHWGO” at Trump's campaign events (the song had been played without permission at an event in Montana at the time), and she also refused to perform at Trump's inauguration in January 2017.

[drove all night]

This was just posted by André Coutu.
"Le 7 avril 1999, nous étions en tournée avec la Grande Céline, la tournée Let's Talk About Love. La dame qui conduisait notre autobus qui nous emmenait d’un concert à l’autre aux États-Unis, Teresa Almoney, avait pris plusieurs photos de nous tous durant ce concert au BJCC Arena à Birmingham en Alabama. Plus tard, elle nous avait fait parvenir à chacun de nous, par la poste, les photos qu’elle avait capté ce soir là, car il s’agissait à l’époque de photos papier! Il y a quelques mois, elle m’a annoncé qu’elle s’était faite voler toutes ses photos et était, bien entendu, très triste de cette situation. Je vous partage donc ces clichés inédits, merci beaucoup Teresa!"

Google Translation:
"On April 7, 1999, we were on tour with the Great Céline for the “Let's Talk About Love” tour. The woman who drove our tour bus as we traveled from one concert to the next across the United States, Teresa Almoney, had taken several photos of all of us during that concert at the BJCC Arena in Birmingham, Alabama. Later, she mailed each of us the photos she had taken that evening, since back then they were still printed photos! A few months ago, she told me that all her photos had been stolen and she was, of course, very sad about it. So I’m sharing these never-before-seen shots with you—thank you so much, Teresa!"

Source: https://www.facebook.com/andrecoutu34/posts/pfbid02i4doBMNnjgEmsGeegBw6zaWwoVnqnD3QmKjVZcsaYMWwUmUHHCc4asF5sX51ctafl

[celine2199]

1 hour ago, drove all night said:

Unfortunately it wasn't the only time. In May 1996 there was a private concert for Trump in Mar-A-Lago followed by a Chanel-Fashion-show three days later, with a.o. Céline as a model. 

They celebrated the babyshower in Mar-A-Lago in 2001.

And here are some other events where they met. https://www.celinedionweb.com/en/with-personality/donald-trump/
By that time Trump was "only" a Tycoon and since also living in Palm Beach and sharing the golf passion it's clear they knew each other.

But looks like everything changed because in 2024, Céline's management prohibited the use of “MHWGO” at Trump's campaign events (the song had been played without permission at an event in Montana at the time), and she also refused to perform at Trump's inauguration in January 2017.

Well,she did the right thing to stay away from that crazy person...🤨

[drove all night]

21 minutes ago, celine2199 said:

Well,she did the right thing to stay away from that crazy person...🤨

Definitively! 
Maybe he was different in earlier years? Who can say. Or maybe it was in the late 90ies/early 2000 just a "strategic acquaintance"?

[Thomas]

3 hours ago, drove all night said:

This was just posted by André Coutu.
"Le 7 avril 1999, nous étions en tournée avec la Grande Céline, la tournée Let's Talk About Love. La dame qui conduisait notre autobus qui nous emmenait d’un concert à l’autre aux États-Unis, Teresa Almoney, avait pris plusieurs photos de nous tous durant ce concert au BJCC Arena à Birmingham en Alabama. Plus tard, elle nous avait fait parvenir à chacun de nous, par la poste, les photos qu’elle avait capté ce soir là, car il s’agissait à l’époque de photos papier! Il y a quelques mois, elle m’a annoncé qu’elle s’était faite voler toutes ses photos et était, bien entendu, très triste de cette situation. Je vous partage donc ces clichés inédits, merci beaucoup Teresa!"

Google Translation:
"On April 7, 1999, we were on tour with the Great Céline for the “Let's Talk About Love” tour. The woman who drove our tour bus as we traveled from one concert to the next across the United States, Teresa Almoney, had taken several photos of all of us during that concert at the BJCC Arena in Birmingham, Alabama. Later, she mailed each of us the photos she had taken that evening, since back then they were still printed photos! A few months ago, she told me that all her photos had been stolen and she was, of course, very sad about it. So I’m sharing these never-before-seen shots with you—thank you so much, Teresa!"

Source: https://www.facebook.com/andrecoutu34/posts/pfbid02i4doBMNnjgEmsGeegBw6zaWwoVnqnD3QmKjVZcsaYMWwUmUHHCc4asF5sX51ctafl

 

Great photos! André is still a very big supporter of Celine, even though he was sadly removed from the band during that whole mess. He often makes very nice comments about her and discussing the desire to return.

[MaiconSC]

10 hours ago, drove all night said:

This was just posted by André Coutu.
"Le 7 avril 1999, nous étions en tournée avec la Grande Céline, la tournée Let's Talk About Love. La dame qui conduisait notre autobus qui nous emmenait d’un concert à l’autre aux États-Unis, Teresa Almoney, avait pris plusieurs photos de nous tous durant ce concert au BJCC Arena à Birmingham en Alabama. Plus tard, elle nous avait fait parvenir à chacun de nous, par la poste, les photos qu’elle avait capté ce soir là, car il s’agissait à l’époque de photos papier! Il y a quelques mois, elle m’a annoncé qu’elle s’était faite voler toutes ses photos et était, bien entendu, très triste de cette situation. Je vous partage donc ces clichés inédits, merci beaucoup Teresa!"

Google Translation:
"On April 7, 1999, we were on tour with the Great Céline for the “Let's Talk About Love” tour. The woman who drove our tour bus as we traveled from one concert to the next across the United States, Teresa Almoney, had taken several photos of all of us during that concert at the BJCC Arena in Birmingham, Alabama. Later, she mailed each of us the photos she had taken that evening, since back then they were still printed photos! A few months ago, she told me that all her photos had been stolen and she was, of course, very sad about it. So I’m sharing these never-before-seen shots with you—thank you so much, Teresa!"

Source: https://www.facebook.com/andrecoutu34/posts/pfbid02i4doBMNnjgEmsGeegBw6zaWwoVnqnD3QmKjVZcsaYMWwUmUHHCc4asF5sX51ctafl

oh I miss him... Kaven is great, but he is a little too serious I think...

it would be awesome if we could have both Kaven and Andre in the band...

[celine_dion_faces]

Posted from the photographer Carl Lessard on his instagram account:

 

[Thomas]

Nice, also this one from his website for those who missed it (we've known it from the past).

[drove all night]

"Love lights the world - and it shines on you"

Edited April 9, 2026 at 05:03 PM by drove all night