Tag:Paris
The Watcher sees all from his perch above the river, life in all its forms streaming by outside his window. It was hot in Paris when I took this photo. I was visiting and my hotel room had air conditioning. When I lived there, like this man, I had to open the windows to cool my apartment in the summer. And if there was no breeze, well you were S.O.L. But my apartment had been brand new. I was the […]
Having lived in Paris for two years it’s certainly one of my most favorite cities. Much more compact that London, I find it to be a very walkable city. I took this photo of a window box while wandering semi-aimlessly around the Montmartre area of town, near Sacré Coeur. The original image is from 1998, scanned into Photoshop and then run through Topaz Simplify to get this effect. I don’t have a wider view of this scene but I can […]
You can’t miss I.M. Pei’s pyramid entrance to the Louvre museum. I think it works architecturally simply because it is so out of place with it’s surroundings. To have made any structure sympathetic with the surrounding wings of the museum would have resulted in something truly horrendous. The Pyramid works, in my view, but note that it’s often not the fastest way into the Louvre and on a sunny summer’s day the heat outside in the courtyard can be stifling […]
I was recently playing at scanning some of my black and white negatives and came across this charming image I took some time late in 1998. It’s a sunny but chilly day, most likely a Sunday, and these three ladies are all engrossed in their books. You can tell it’s an ‘old’ photo as no-one has a smartphone! Take that same image today and probably two of the three would be reading on their phones. I’m struck at how most […]
With my family, we were ambling back towards our hotel having just left Notre Dame when I saw the setting sun glancing off these buildings on the Rue de la Huchette in Paris. The Rue de la Huchette is one of the oldest in Paris though the origins of the name are obscured in time. Huchette may derive from ‘hutchet’, an old term for a bugle or hunting horn, or from ‘huche’, a box for keeping bread. Today the Rue […]
A window in time, literally. I captured this view through the clock face at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris on the fifth floor, in the North-East corner of the museum. The space behind the clock face in the North-West corner is a restaurant and I don’t find the view through it as pleasing. Opening as a train station in 1900, by 1939 the platforms had become too short for the trains of that age. The French government saved the building […]
