Street Scenes, Part Four; Paris, 2017
Walking and seeing in Paris bring random pleasures. A photographer wandering around Paris is a flaneur in the best sense.
This giant mural hung some blocks from the new Forum des Halles.
Color displays (top, love locks near Pont Neuf; middle, yarn shop; bottom, paint layers on historic door)
But some non-random visual pleasures are worth dedicated effort. Here is a vaulted glass ceiling in the 1854 Bibliotheque nationale de France. It would be an entrancing, but distracting, place to work.
Ceiling detail
This chandelier in the entryway of the Bibliotheque nationale looks rather like a fringed flapper skirt, with mirrored tips.
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After a lifetime of mainly expressing myself with words, my postings here will mainly rely on images. They will speak for themselves to some extent, but I'll usually add a few comments of explanation. I've taken photographs for decades, since the 1950's, inspired in part by my father's photographic skill. Four years of photo assignments and quality darkroom time eventually gave way to decades of casual and family picture-taking. I re-immersed myself when I left film and turned to digital.