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Click below to: Choose your print type Select your size Pick your finish Adjust your crop Add a frame (or not) Complete your purchase The Eiffel Tower For most people, when you think of Paris you get an image of the Eiffel Tower. This iconic structure has now soared above the Champ de Mars for over 120 years. Not bad for a temporary installation. The first time I visited Paris it was the first place I went. I dropped my […]
What does a city do when a major manufacturer moves to a new location and their old factories become derelict? If that city is Paris, France, and that manufacturer is Citroën, well, you turn it into a park of course – the Parc André Citroën. For the two years I lived in Paris, the Parc André Citroën was my back yard. In the winter I could see the park from my kitchen and living room windows. In the summer, the […]
In my youth, Citroën made such unique cars. Quintessentially French in design, nothing else on the road looked like them or drove like them. The Deux Chevaux was truly unique. I first rode in one in my school days. The local taxi driver, who was paid by the school district to drive us the three miles to the nearest school bus stop in the morning and take us back at the end of the school day, had one for a […]
The Musée d’Orsay in Paris is one of my favorite galleries. The building dates from around 1900 but, as a mainline train station, it had become obsolete by 1939. In 1970 is was approved for demolition to be replaced by a hotel but, this being France, it was listed as a Historic Monument instead. In December 1986 the building was reborn in its current role of art museum covering mainly French art from 1848 to 1915 and bridging the gap […]
For Valentines Day I thought I’d post a picture of Paris, the City of Lights. Seine Twilight is a view over the River Seine from the Pont de la Concorde. Valentine’s Day is also my wedding anniversary. In New Orleans, eighteen years ago today, I married my beautiful and talented wife, and then I took her to Paris where we lived for the next two years, seeing in the new millennium before returning to Houston and starting our family. Happy […]
The Galleries Lafayette dome is just something you don’t expect to see in a department store. I think only the French have the audacity to pull off this type of architecture in a store open to the masses. In it’s own way, Galleries Lafayette is a church to the religion of shopping. Crowds of people flow in and out like the ebb and flow of the tide. It’s like the building breathes in people, gains sustenance from the cash in […]
