{"id":5062,"date":"2025-10-13T11:29:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T09:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/photoni.st\/?p=5062"},"modified":"2025-10-13T11:29:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T09:29:07","slug":"on-we-go-again-paris-travel-log-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/photoni.st\/index.php\/2025\/10\/13\/on-we-go-again-paris-travel-log-1\/","title":{"rendered":"On we go again (Paris Travel Log #1)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Just back from Oslo and then Spain, we’re off to Paris for the Salon de la Photo. These photos are the ones I took with my phone. I also took some with the Flexaret TLR, but they’ll take a few days to process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Reading on the train<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

At the weekend, the Salon de la Photo in Paris is on. It’s a gear-orientated show and I’m not super interested in gear, but I got free tickets and it’s always fun to see what people are interested in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As our days are fairly heavily booked this weekend, we go straight from the train to the first exhibition: Minimal<\/a>. I take photos on the way. Today I’m the weirdo that takes photos in the subway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Going through tunnels<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I left Paris before these fancy automated trains appeared. They’re exotic to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Porte de Clignancourt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Minimal. Modern art, so not really my thing. But my wife was enthusiastic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Exhibition #1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I don’t normally take photos of pieces of art because the artist did all the work and I don’t add anything to it. But just for context, I took a few to show you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the temporary exhibitions is about textures and earth. Some of the pieces are interesting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cone<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Another exhibition was about light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Empire State Building<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Another was allowing people to rearrange cube frames any way they wanted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cubes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

But overall, I’m more interested in the people visiting and in the building itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Monk? Trying too hard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

One person was going round the exhibition with a suitcase. Essentially as we did, except we had rucksacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Suitcase<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Going up the stairs, I was interested in the juxtaposition of old and new: old tiled floor, new concrete staircase with glass sides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Old and new<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Once again, old and new with the old arched window and wooden floor, opening on a concrete wall. Also the tones were very nice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Window on concrete<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This piece was half building, half light display. Probably my favourite. It made the composition really interesting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A whole bunch of crazy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

And off we go again down the subway to the Salon de la Photo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To the subway<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The exhibition was at La Villette<\/a>. These used to be Paris’s slaughterhouses. Amusingly, the previous exhibition was above Les Halles, which used to be the Paris meat market. There is a theme here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I remember when La Villette was converted and opened as an exhibition centre in 1982-1983. It also has a scientific library I went a few times when I was a kid (no internet yet).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The place is absolutely heaving. There is obviously a lot of interest in new gear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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La Villette<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

When I posted I was thinking of going there, Jill<\/a> mentioned that she would be at the Ricoh stand (she’s Ricoh ambassador<\/a>). We met there and she took this photo of us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jill and me<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We don’t stay very long, I can’t get interested in tons of hardware. I consider for a while getting some back issues of Polka Magazine<\/a>, but the stand was busy so I give up on the idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Off we go again. We take a few photos around the venue…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bicycles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Fire hydrant and ventilation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Cobbles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

And down the subway again to go see my parents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Subway<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

That’s the end of day one. That was exhausting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

See you another day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

#Photography #Paris #Travel #BlackAndWhite #BlackAndWhitePhotography<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just back from Oslo and then Spain, we’re off to Paris for the Salon de la Photo. These photos are the ones I took with my phone. I also took some with the Flexaret TLR, but they’ll take a few days to process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/photoni.st\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/photoni.st\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/photoni.st\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photoni.st\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photoni.st\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5062"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/photoni.st\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5100,"href":"https:\/\/photoni.st\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5062\/revisions\/5100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/photoni.st\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photoni.st\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photoni.st\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}