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Parisian for a Year: Le Parapluie
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Parisian for a Year. Photographing the Bridges of Paris. The Book, Bridges of Paris. Friday, April 3, 2015. Here comes the rain again,. Falling on my head like a memory,. Falling on my head like a new emotion". Every time I get despondent over the rain and dull white skies of Paris, something happens to jolt me out of it. Today, it’s red umbrellas. Besides raising me out of artistic gloom, red umbrellas offer a chance for deep linguistic explorations. Now I have told you, so be prepared. In Latin, umbra.
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Parisian for a Year: July 2015
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Parisian for a Year. Photographing the Bridges of Paris. The Book, Bridges of Paris. Friday, July 31, 2015. Modern Artist of Paris. I’m watching the artist paint le Pont Bir-Hakeim, the first Paris bridge built in the 20. Century. It lies just downriver from the Eiffel Tower, and carries motor vehicles and pedestrians across its lower arches, with Metro Line 6 on the viaduct above. I imagine walking past a painter like this one some hazy day in the late 19. In the open air), and it took the Impressionist...
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Parisian for a Year: April 2015
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Parisian for a Year. Photographing the Bridges of Paris. The Book, Bridges of Paris. Friday, April 24, 2015. Locks of Love or Lunacy? The locks of love (or lunacy? Are multiplying on all the bridges of Paris. Pont de l’Archevêché. So many locks, you can’t see the river. How many million keys are lying at the bottom of the Seine? How many have been carried out to sea? And even more locks on Pont des Arts with Pont Neuf in the background. Wherever a tiny space appears, a lock finds it. A World Without Cars.
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Parisian for a Year: March 2015
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Parisian for a Year. Photographing the Bridges of Paris. The Book, Bridges of Paris. Friday, March 27, 2015. Then came the rainbow. When dark clouds cast their shadows, I just wait patiently for the bow. Friday, March 13, 2015. Checking My Gun Through Airport Security. The tall guy about ten people ahead of me in the security line was going to write this blog but he got detained. And in that long moment it took me to think, “is that really what I think I am seeing? So I wonder…”. The diligent TSA worker ...
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Parisian for a Year: May 2015
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Parisian for a Year. Photographing the Bridges of Paris. The Book, Bridges of Paris. Friday, May 29, 2015. It has been rainy and overcast these last few days which creates a white sky and a depressed photographer. One of my parameters for a good photograph is no white sky - - shot must have blue sky or good cloud texture. This afternoon the storm finally broke and the sky was dressed in clouds. I spend over five hours hopping from bridge to bridge getting photos before the sun set. Location: Paris, France.
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Parisian for a Year: August 2015
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Parisian for a Year. Photographing the Bridges of Paris. The Book, Bridges of Paris. Friday, August 21, 2015. There are many must-dos for the tourist in Paris. Visit the Mona Lisa in the Louvre, ride to the top of the Eiffel Tower, enjoy an ice-cream cone on the Île Saint-Louis and lock your love on a bridge crossing the Seine river. That tradition is turning into a major problem for the City of Paris. The locks have gone viral. Locks are now showing up on all the bridges and anywhere love can be locked!
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Parisian for a Year: The Local Supermarket
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Parisian for a Year. Photographing the Bridges of Paris. The Book, Bridges of Paris. Friday, August 14, 2015. Here is my local supermarket, about a 10 minute walk across Pont Double through the Latin Quarter to Boulevard Saint Germain. Its called Place Maubert. It's super because it includes all three of the main food groups of a French diet. Being super, the marché. Even has a fruit department. Which is not a library but a bookstore, so you can check out the books but you can't check the books out.
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Parisian for a Year: Bad News for Buskers
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Parisian for a Year. Photographing the Bridges of Paris. The Book, Bridges of Paris. Friday, June 19, 2015. Bad News for Buskers. There’s no contest. On the Paris streets, buskers are living the dream, free and self-directed. Sure, it is a rough life and the rich times are few. But it is an authentic life. As crazy Ernie at le café des Deux Magots on the Place Saint-Germain des Près, proclaims. The Pumpers, or fire-fighters) arrive to save the day. In Paris, they almost always do. Lies on the other.
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Parisian for a Year: Sunday is Bird Market Day
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Parisian for a Year. Photographing the Bridges of Paris. The Book, Bridges of Paris. Friday, May 8, 2015. Sunday is Bird Market Day. We human beings have always loved birds. From the most ancient civilizations right up to the present, we’ve revered them, imbued them with magic and mystery, hunted and eaten them, used them as messengers, and kept them as pets. What is their secret? They fill our dreams. The Paris bird and flower market has been around for over two hundred years. Now I’m living in a ...
