Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2022/05/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nice set. A photogenic metropolis (at least the central portion), if truth be told. Cheers Jayanand On Sun, May 15, 2022 at 10:53 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 > > http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > http://www.greatpix.eu > http://www.frozenlight.eu > > YNWA > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information