Cemetery, Montmartre
"la tour Eiffel, Mumsie!"
March,2007 *
" la Maison Jaune"
le Marais
" le Philosophes "
le Marais
*For the remainder of my posts, I will from time to time include photographs from my previous trip to Paris in March, 2007.
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- Virginia
- Birmingham, AL, United States
- I am a former elementary school teacher, a full-time photographer, lover of all things French ( whose French is slowly improving), obsessive Paris traveler, enthusiastic church and community volunteer, and grandmother to 5 delightful grandchildren.
Paris je t'aime
I fell in love with Paris in March 2007. It was as the French say, le coup de foudre : love at first sight. As a result of that trip, my photography took another direction. Since that time I have pursued a career of sorts in photography and dreamed of returning to the City of Light. November 2008 found me strolling the streets of Paris once again. My first visit I was so overwhelmed with the incredible beauty of the city, I photographed it as a "tourist". In 2008 I returned and I looked at the city with more of a photographer's eye. I wanted to capture the unique, the small details, and oh yes - the people! This blog was started as a photo diary of that trip, but I have been most fortunate to return to the city j'adore 15 times since. Each time I leave, I wipe a tear and start planning my list for the next trip. Paris may well be a moveable feast, but I think it's best savored in person! Someone told me that once you have been to Paris, you will leave a piece of your heart. I left mine right there, but I brought home some wonderful memories. It is my pleasure to share them with you.
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- God I Love Paris
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- Hip Paris
- Little Brown Pen
- Lost In Arles
- Lost in Cheeseland
- Love in the City of Lights
- Ma Vie Française
- Magic Lantern Show
- Manger
- Paris and Beyond
- Parisien Salon
- Peter's Paris
- Southern Fried French
- The French Basketeer
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8 comments:
A pleasure as always to see your shots. It brings joy to my heart! I look forward to those from your previous trip as well.
I like that second photo "La tour Eiffel, Mumsie", V. ... So alive!
V, Show us anything - they're all wonderful!
I want to pull up a chair in the last shot and never leave. Cute girl and what an experience for a child, Paris. Did you go to the Père Lachaise Cemetery. Morbid I know but that place fascinates me the amount of buried talent there. Your top shot sparked the question.
No PLC this trip. Maybe this summer. Melissa wants to see where ole Serge is resting! I have mixed emotions about the cemeteries. I appreciate the lovely architectural details etc., but I couldn't shake the feeling that I was intruding. Know what I mean? It will be interesting this summer to see how much Eva remembers from her first trip. It will have been 2 years by then.
Judy
I hope I will be realistic enough to know when to "pull the plug" on this blog! I may have already passed the point of interest to most viewers! Yikes!!
Fantastic captures that made me look at the images again and again
Er excuse me. You have definitely not surpassed the point. Babooshka has spoken. I agree about intrusion it's just a place I am drawn too because of so many of it's inhabitants. Well you just know I'm an Oscar Wilde fan.
still enjoying your photos, V.
do go to Pere Lachaise. Victorians considered it an outing in the park, not a final resting place. Promenade a bit. See the part of Victor Noir that, um, isn't noir. I think they may have cordoned off Oscar Wilde's grave so people like me would stop putting smooch marks on it. just sayin' Lancome Jezebel looks good on granite.
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