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 first occupant. Unlike this man I wasn't surrounded in centuries of history. Just look at the height of the ceilings in that room. The building on the right (see different windows) was built around 1625. This was open ground then so this building is probably from the mid-1600's so around 350 years of occupation. The arch behind the tree and the wall shows this was once a carriage entrance into a courtyard behind.
The Watcher, a man watches the scene from his window on the Quai di Bourbon, Ile Saint Louis, Paris.
