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Paris in October – part 9 – Chalon-sur-Saone
Well, Chalon-sur-Saone is NOT in Paris, obviously. But I did go there as part of this trip. Chalon is a small city on the banks of the Saone (pronounced Son) river, about 130 kilometers from the Swiss...
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Paris in October – part 10 – Art
We’ll start with the Louvre museum. Here are some photos of the building itself. The Pyramid, the glass entrance structure that opens to the underground entrance lobby, is fascinating in itself for the...
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Fire Hydrant, Chalon-sur-Saone
Hydrant, Chalon Just a quick one-off of a very red, vibrant fire hydrant in Chalon-sur-Saone. It fits well within my series of ordinary objects, and it has a very sculptural quality to it.
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Notre Dame Cathedral, Night
Diptych, Notre Dame Facade, Night There is now a viewing platform in the square in front of Notre Dame which makes for a great venue to watch the fire spinners and other street performers, and a nice...
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Paris in October – Part 11 – more Trains
Some more transportation photos. In France, they have the national rail network, which has two grades of TGV-class trains: the long-distance, high speed trains (the one that goes from Paris to...
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Paris in October – part 12 – The Full Moon
A few shots of the streets of Paris by the light of the full moon. Off the Place de L’Opera: The Hotel de Ville (City Hall): On the Ile St. Louis:
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Paris in October – part 13 – Chalon-sur-Saone in Black and White – Shops
Here are businesses and storefronts in Chalon-sur-Saone. The old advertisement still visible on the wall of the building is on a street leading away from the old (2nd-16th Century) core of the town....
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Paris in October – part 14 – More Chalon-sur-Saone
Here are a few more photos from Chalon-sur-Saone. The Niepce monument is the marker of the reason I took the trip in the first place – to visit the birthplace of photography. Nicephore Niepce invented...
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October in Paris – part 14 – Paris by Night
Ok, it’s far from a comprehensive survey of the city by night, but whaddya want, I only had a single night for night shooting, so I confined myself to where I could walk to from my apartment. One of...
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October in Paris – part 15 – A few more night photos
The Ilot Vache restaurant is on the corner of the Rue St.Louis en l’Ile and the Rue des Deux Ponts, which more or less bisects the Ile St. Louis into east and west halves. The Ile St. Louis was once...
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Paris in October – part 16 – My home away from Home
Here are some photos I took of the apartment where we stayed. The apartment was at Number 6, Rue St. Louis en L’Ile. This was an outstanding choice of location and of apartment. It had charm,...
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Paris in October – part 17 – My neighborhood in Paris
Some street scenes from my neighborhood. In reflection, I wish I had taken an afternoon and just photographed up and down the street. There were so many charming little restaurants and shops along the...
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Paris in October – part 18 – Stained Glass at Ste Chapelle
Sainte Chapelle is the royal chapel on the Ile de la Cité built in the 13th century as part of the then-royal palace. It was conceived and designed to house King Louis’ collection of Christian relics,...
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Paris in October – part 19 – The Eiffel Tower
Does the Eiffel Tower really need any text description? The one really cool thing I can think of about it you probably don’t know is that when it was built, it generated polarizing opinions among...
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Paris in October – Part 20 – Le Marais in Black and White
Le Marais is one of the few neighborhoods in the city center of Paris that retains its medieval core of narrow wandering streets. It is home to a diverse population from Orthodox Jews to gay pubs and...
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Paris in October – part 21 – More Le Marais
A photographer’s visit to Paris would not be complete without a trip to the Maison Europienne de la Photographie. The primary exhibit was Sebastiao Salgado’s current body of work documenting indigenous...
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Paris in October – part 22 – odds-n-ends
Here are four loose assorted images. I forgot I had the Eiffel Tower shot when I was posting the Eiffel Tower images because it was on a different roll. The Musee D’Orsay shots don’t have enough of a...
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Paris in October – part 23 – The Metropolitain (Subway)
The old part of the Metropolitain subway system in the city center of Paris is famous for the art nouveau railings and signs at the station entrances. I know I put a couple of photos in an earlier post...
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Paris in October – part 24 – Ile de la Cité
I apologize for the randomness again. It kind of reflects my own state of mind at the moment anyway. But here’s a few more scenes from the Ile de la Cité. The Sainte Chapelle is inside the compound of...
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Paris in October – part 25 – Hans Z, Street Photographer
Meet Hans Zeeldieb, the street photographer working outside the Pompidou Centre. He was set up with his vintage 5×7, paper negatives, and portable darkbox doing portraits for 15 Euros a pop. He shot...
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