Winter Visit to Paris

You can find people and places to photograph outdoors in winter, when the days are short, available light doesn't last long and even when there is a light drizzle, as in this set of images from a visit to Paris late last year.

 

Those of you who know Paris, may possibly recognise La Défense in the last four images; the first - the odd one out location wise - is at the Centre Pompidou. The blue post-production processing 
matched the rather gloomy day ...

Another Day in Paris

Spent another very pleasant day in Paris last week, again courtesy of my frequent flyer airmiles. A rather colder day than the last time - wintry and very overcast - unlike in September when there was nothing but very blue skies and 30 degrees plus. You may have seen my post on that day here.

Didn't think I'd manage to get many images given the light this time, but uprated the iso to 800 (rather than the 200 which is my usual.) Visited a part of the city which I hadn't been too for many years - the Centre Pompidou - where I captured this sequence ...

 Wonder if I could have photographed a similar sequence on London ? The powers that be in London seem to consider the pigeons as pests.

Day Trip to Paris

I've been collecting Airmiles with my grocery shopping for a good few years now - it is a loyalty card scheme and when you have collected enough points ("airmiles") you can trade them for a free flight. Anyways the scheme I'm in is changing and soon the travel taxes and some addons with be excluded. Thought I'd use what I had left before it changed and so I took a day trip to Paris last week, an early flight over from Heathrow to CDG and a late return on the same day. And what a day to go - wall to wall blue skies and the temperature pushing 30 degrees C - and this was September 30th. Autumn or what ?

The photos here were taken near the Eiffel Tower, mostly on  the other side of the Seine. I was looking at some of visitors rather than the more famous "sights". And yes, the last shot is a Statue of Liberty, it is located on the Île aux Cygnes.

lac d'Annecy

lac d'Annecy
Originally uploaded by Tawny042

Here is another photo, posted to my photostream some time ago - Oct 2005 - which has been achieving recent views (during the last week or so) in Flickr. Cant think why. I can understand another of my photos - "At Salem" - again uploaded to Flickr a while ago - getting recent hits - after all the subject matter is Halloween which is just around the corner, but a photo of boats on Lac d'Annecy ? As always, I'm sure there is a good reason. Annecy is candidate for a future Winter Olympic games perhaps ? Perhaps not, but as long as the hits keep on coming .....

lac d'Annecy

lac d'Annecy
Originally uploaded by Tawny042

I'm posting this entry from my Flickr photostream. This image, of sail boats being towed across Lac d'Annecy in France, has "achieved" 24 viewings, 1 favourite and 17 comments so far today at the time of writing. Not my most popular or interesting image ever (my Richmond Park in Winter used in this Photoblog banner has had more attention) nor is it the most popular in Flickr, but it is good to see some of my images being noticed.