Paris, Rive Gauche

[poliphilo]

These two were taken from the same seat at a restaurant on the left bank. I think they're my favourites from the whole trip.

Comments

[kinderheldin.livejournal.com]

I thought to myself on seeing the first top/one here, wow -- that's great, my favorite so far. Then I read what you wrote at the bottom.

I also like the first Monet house picture -- the blue-green shutters alomts making half the picture one color.

Thank you so much for sharing these impressions with us! I haven't been to Paris yet, but the next time I go to Europe, that's where I'm going. I need to see where Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre and Anais Nin and Hemingway and Joyce traipsed about.

(P.S. A while back in your journal, I thought the black sports-shirt looked really good on you, too -- it's a keeper!) :>

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you like those two. We were rushing about and trying to beat the clock and there wasn't much time to stop and frame artful compositions.

The first- the restaurant shot- struck me as being a bit like a cubist collage. Whereas the one of Monet's garden is definitely fauve.

[pondhopper.livejournal.com]

I have not been to Paris in over 30 yearsand am longing to return. The second picture is just about perfect!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

I took a number of shots, varying the angle and the placing of the figure (I think the woman sussed me out- leastways there's one with her looking directly at the camera) and this, I reckon, is the best.