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Subject: [Leica] IMG: 12 hours in the 5th arrondissement
From: tmanley at gmail.com (Tina Manley)
Date: Sun, 15 May 2022 13:27:53 -0400
References: <1C05AA95-4D26-4E0E-8550-4E5777E659C7@frozenlight.eu>

Any photo that makes you want to go there is a good photo.  These are all
good.

Tina

On Sun, May 15, 2022 at 1:23 PM Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> 
wrote:

> I have had a hectic couple of weeks, with travel and work, so I am a bit
> behind with my weekly blog, but in the meantime I am working my way through
> the many photos I took during my travels.
>
> On April 28th I presented a new study we have done together with the
> Community Plant Variety Office in Angers, a couple of hours south of Paris
> by train. The following day I was going to travel to Washington. So once my
> work at Angers was done in the afternoon, I went to get a Covid test at a
> pharmacy (necessary for travelling to the US the following day), and then
> took the train to Paris to spend the night there. My flight to the US was
> on the 29th in the afternoon, so I had asked our travel agency to get me a
> hotel close to a RER (commuter train) station so that I could easily get to
> the Charles de Gaulle airport the next day, preferably somewhere in the
> Latin quarter. And so it was.
>
> I arrived at my hotel around 11 p.m. on the 28th, checked in and went for
> a walk in search of beer. Bars in Paris close early but I found a couple of
> suitable watering holes and also took a few night pictures. The next
> morning I got up early, as I always do, and went for a walk in the area,
> visiting some familiar places (such as Jardin du Luxembourg) and a couple
> of places that I had not visited before?the Panth?on, where the great and
> good of France (and some deserving foreigners) are buried, and the church
> of Saint-?tienne du Mont, one of the oldest in Paris. All in all, I spent
> about 12 hours in Paris between my arrival late in the evening and getting
> on the train to the airport early in the afternoon the following day. A
> small gallery of 40 photos shows some of the things I saw during my short
> visit. I am not necessarily pleased with every image I have (around 80
> altogether that survived the cull on the plane), but I am pleased overall
> with a decent heist from such a short stay.
>
> http://www.frozenlight.eu/paris_apr2022/index.html
>
> Cheers,
> Nathan
>
> Nathan Wajsman
> photo at frozenlight.eu
>
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> YNWA
>
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