{"id":5101,"date":"2025-10-14T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/photoni.st\/?p=5101"},"modified":"2025-10-13T16:30:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T14:30:26","slug":"picasso-paris-travel-log-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/photoni.st\/index.php\/2025\/10\/14\/picasso-paris-travel-log-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Picasso (Paris Travel Log #2)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The last time we were in Paris, we tried to visit the Picasso museum, but it was fully booked long in advance. So this time, I booked early so we could have a look.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Inside the Picasso museum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Once again, I was more interested in the building itself than in the exhibition inside. I kind of like early Picasso (e.g. during his collaboration with Braque), but I’m not so keen on his later stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The building is an old hotel particulier with grand entrance, grand staircase, and interesting features. An you’d expect it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Grand staircase<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

One of the most fascinating thing when we visited was the light effects on blinds, walls, and windows. This one made me think of film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Film?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The old glass (18th century maybe?) was creating patterns on the blinds that were really interesting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Old glass patterns<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I wasn’t the only one interested in the light effects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My wife also interested in the blinds<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

From the windows, you could see such typical views of Paris it was nearly cartoonish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Typical view over Paris<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I absolutely loved this window. I took many photos of it from different angles. And the view of a typical Parisian building on the other side was essentially creating a postcard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Round window<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I was attracted to the double diagonal composition of this photo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Diagonals<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Even the service stairs were interesting, with the wooden steps and the lighting that was creating nice tones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Stairs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

For some reason I really loved this view. I put the fire dry columns on the right so that they’re not too centred, and the handrails point at them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dry column<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

My wife took a number of photos this weekend from that position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Low angle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Back outside, we walk around a little before lunch. I took a Vivian Maier photo with my reflection in the mirror. This one is the one I took with my phone, I took the same one with the TLR. Apparently people were taking photos of me taking photos with the TLR. Also a lot of people asked me about it. That’s how you know you’re doing something weird.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bakery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The day was really good for light and shadow photos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Light and shadow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

During lunch I reloaded the camera (photo courtesy of my wife).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Camera reload<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

An art group in Paris has covered the walls of pixelated pictures<\/a>. A lot of them are Invader-style figures, but others are famous people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Dude<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Of course I couldn’t resist taking photos of people crossing the street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Crossing the street<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

And of people’s legs sticking out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Legs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This is what I look like taking photos apparently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Taking a photo with the TLR<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Eventually we made our way home to my parents. We walked a good part of the way on my usual haunts. That’s the Paris I grew up with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Notre Dame<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

When I saw that bicycle, I knew I wanted to take a photo of it, but also I wanted a photo of someone riding another bicycle in the frame. That wasn’t easy to get, but I managed one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tired bicycle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Market day near Maubert-Mut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Market<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Market with pigeon photobomb<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I saw that guy sitting on the bicycle rack and knew I wanted a photo of him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sitting on the rack<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We had to cut our walk short because we bought a lot of books at a secondhand book store and couldn’t really walk with 30kg of books. These are the photo books I got. My wife got a bunch of architecture books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Heavy books<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Last photo of the day: in my parents’ backyard, a white plastic chair was upside down. I can’t resist this sort of scene. The sadness of the abandoned chair, the squares of light, the shadows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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White chair<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

That’s it for today. See you another day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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