Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Attention à la marche
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Managing the stairs from the second floor at Shakespeare & Company took longer than necessary due to the photo ops along the way. I wonder if anyone has ever tried to count the number of books there!
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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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18 comments:
I could lose a few hours in here V.
I have not and I have never ventured up the stairs either , regardless of the photo ops..but you are right, it was worth the effort !!
I need to take D there ... He would spend the day browsing through those books (en anglais).
I believe that I spy a copy of Secret Life of Bees on that pile! I spent an hour or so sitting outside here while my girl got lost in the stacks--still one of her fondest memories of Paris.
(I found you yesterday through French Girl in Seattle. Your photos make me want to sign up for a photography class! Thanks for sharing.)
Whoops, nope--it's The Help! But I also noticed a very nice leather bag in there, too, with a closer look. :)
No doubt, a reader's paradise! I'd love to spend some time in there! :)
No but I've counted the number of times I've shown up and there has been a line-up of tourists waiting to get in - consequently never been inside - I hate tourists
Definitely my kind of place! And I'll be there in October to check it out. Maybe a few of the tourists will have gone home by then. :-)
I wonder what treasures lie within those stacks?
What a place! If these walls could talk.
It's so rare to see a genuine stone wall like that. Most around here were "built" the day before yesterday.
I have hung around outside the store several times, admiring the Seine from that vantage point, but I have not been inside. Shame on me.
Oh I know, it's so full of surprises! You've inspired me, I think I'll do a post on my experience at Shakespeare & Co. Thank you!!!
I've spent many hours—mostly back in the day— lost among the countless (that's my official estimate, btw) books at Shakespeare & Co. I just looove this place!
Who wants to know details about paradise on earth?! .. :o)
George Whitman's daughter should have at least an approximate idea! :-)
Oh, what memories that brings back! I had heard that it closed after George Whitman's death. Is it reopened or was that just a rumor? Hope someone has it; it should be part of Paris forever!
Ooooo! I could 'so' spend a day in there! What a paradise. At least it looks so to me. Happy sigh... I love your photograph of it. :)
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