Personal photography
Paris used to have a train line going around it. It was called the PC: Petite Ceinture. It was closed a long time ago (before I was born I think).
Most of it has disappeared: covered, built upon, or recycled. It was even converted into private gardens in places. There are few sections that have been converted to walking tracks.
I don’t often take colour photos, but this time I made the conscious effort to do so.
I liked all the blue things. That’s taken at the back of Beaubourg. The less touristy side.
I was in Paris a few weekends ago to visit my parents. I took the opportunity to walk around Paris for a few days.
I had to wait a while to get people and the pigeon in the right place.
Warning: this is photography-adjacent only.
Sometimes I buy second hand books. Either on Amazon or on local markets. Mostly because when you buy a lot of books it becomes expensive. Especially photography books. And I need the money for photography and astronomy. On occasion, these books come from libraries that have closed or that have sold some of their stock of rarely borrowed books to replace them with books people prefer.
I love when these books still contain their date stamped lending cards.
I’m still trying to identify why I like Substack so much more than other social platforms. So navel gazing warning is in place.
One of the things that annoyed me with Substack is the fact that the various people writing on it do so for duplicates of themselves.
I’m not a street photographer. Part of it is that I live in the middle of nowhere and we don’t really have streets. I was in Paris at the weekend to visit my parents, so I experimented a bit.
Sometimes, photography reminds me of scientific research. Both disciplines demand an intense focus on minute details, adhering to conventions that outsiders rarely understand, communicating in a formalized way, and both often seem incomprehensible to the general public.
During my last visit in Paris, I went to a Richard Avedon exhibition at the Cartier-Bresson Foundation.
In our modern world of unlimited cloud storage and high-capacity hard drives, the practice of printing photographs might seem antiquated. Yet, this traditional approach to preserving memories remains not just relevant but crucial, particularly when considering the long-term preservation of our visual heritage.
With the spring definitively here (though some cold weather last week), I go for walks outside more often. This time I took with me the Canon 5DII with 50mm f/1.8 lens for a change.
The fields are covered in wee daisies.
