I took this photo because it reminded me of photos taken in the NY subway in the 70s.
Paris in the 2020s is obviously way less edgy.
NY 70s vs Paris 2020s
The PC
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.
Blue
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.
Walking under the arches
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.
Another walk
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.
Japanese drums
Many, many years ago when I lived in Edinburgh, I used to go to Fringe festival shows. Like most locals, I hated the festival period because it made the city so busy (and it was also when the council decided it was a great idea to do roadworks everywhere). But it was easy at the time (good luck now!) to get free tickets to almost anything.
One of the shows I went in 2005 was Japanese drums. The drummers were incredible athletes and it was a great experience (I still remember it when I can’t remember many of the shows I saw).
The images aren’t great, I was using a Canon 350D + 18-55mm kit lens (no STM, no IS at the time). But I thought I’d share the insanity of it all in silence.
Walking in the countryside
Can I show you more flowers from one of my walks?
The rape is in full bloom (hello hay fever!). I liked the way these heads were framing the sun. I had to lie on the ground to take it.
My first IR photo
In 2006, I got curious about infrared photography. It’s not something many people were doing, especially digitally, but I liked the idea. I had seen film infrared images and wondered what it could give with a digital camera.
The difficulty was that all sensors have anti-infrared filters that made the cameras essentially blind to it (because portraits look weird and fuzzy in infrared, and it can bring blochiness to the skin). To take photos, you needed a filter (e.g. R72), and very long exposures to compensate for the internal filter. With a Canon 350D, that made the operation fairly difficult (hello banding!).
Since then, I’ve acquired a modified Canon 1200D without the infrared filter that makes it possible to do handheld IR photos.
Another Walk in the Countryside
It was another sunny day on Saturday, so instead of walking indoors, I went for a walk around our village
Framed sun
I took this photo yesterday morning, a few minutes before the partial solar eclipse started (only a few percents here). I wanted the plant to frame the sun as if it was coming out of its vegetal cocoon.
