I‘m busy. Paris, Summer 2019 (as all photos on this post). Traveller 29.
These boots are made for riding. Traveller 30. Quai Saint-Michel.
Traveller 31. It’s me Fashion queen.
Tats. Traveller 32. Bookboxes, Quai Saint-Michel.
Traveller 33. A penny for your thought.
“Backtothestreet”. A unique street photographer who posts his work on the walls of Paris. This was in the Marais. You can find the link to his work on my previous Traveller post. Or just “Boogle” him. No Traveller number. Not mine. I wish. 🙂
Traveller 34. Lost again. Tuileries garden.
Move out, we own the world. Travellers 35. Rue de Dantzig. Dantzig, aka Gdansk in Poland is the reason WWII started, when Hitler attacked the city. The Czechs had been abandoned by Chamberlain and Daladier in Münich. There was no option left but to declare war when Poland was attacked. BTW, did we just abandon the Kurds to Turkey?
Bastia, Corsica, mid-30’s. The aunt of an old friend of mine. Original is a glass plate. (c)ourtesy Vannina and Pascal. Those long gloves lasted for some time. My mother wore those at cocktail parties until the late fifties.
Tats again. Traveller 36. Bassin des Tuileries. Tattoos seem to have exploded last year. Or maybe the hot Paris summer revealed more? The Bassin des Tuileries was a favourite place for kids to rent a small sailboat and float it across the water for a while. Haven’t seen the boats lately. Probably banned by the Mayor for safety reasons. Tsss.
Beauty and…
…The statue. Louvre. Traveller 37.
Candid floss. Tuileries. Traveller 38.
The pied piper. Traveller 39. Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel.
I’m done. Traveller 40. Line 12.
Blonde is the new Black. Traveller 41.
Thank you for travelling on Equinoxio’s Time-Space shuttle.
One if your best photography post but I always think that! Life in Paree has changed a lot since I was there but Ai always seemed to have an itinerary while there. Thank you for sharing Brian. Yes, we abandon the Kurds. It seems too much like history repeating itself over the past three years.
Well, thank you so much Holly. 🙂
Life has changed there and it hasn’t. The metro and streets are much more… diverse. Elegance has taken over the streets again. A pleasure for the eye. 🙂
Now, the Kurds? Ask the Armenians about the Turks… And we let Erdogan do as he pleases? Shame on all of us.
Tomorrow Trump is meeting with Erdogan. Shame on the sheeples who put this rogue moron and his family in the White House. Resist.
Shame indeed. (Had to Boogle sheeple. I’d call them worse.) I wonder what Germans who voted for Hitler, “democratically”, in 1933 thought afterwards… At least they did not re-elect him as many are ready to do… That is worse than a crime, it’s an insult.
And Erdogan? the Tramp should like him. He loves dictators…
I’m sure Erdogan is on his list of favorite dictators…It is intriguing how so many people (sheeples…humans that behave like sheep) can be brainwashed and led down the path to destruction like lemmings. I hope at the very least they will Censure Tramp until we can get him out of there. These Rep Senators are just as criminal as he, they are far from patriots . I won’t use the word I’m thinking, but it starts with trait.
Rabelais one of the very first French authors, early 1500’s if I recall, wrote about Panurge’s sheeps, how they could be led to destruction… A common blindness, “lemmingness”? i understand what you mean by trait… A very unpleasant “trait” indeed. McCain was a brave man. The others? I don’t know what’s on their mind.
It’s very disturbing dear Brian . Hopefully things will rerun to normal again. McCain was a courageous man, he is missed. 🤗
He is. Here’s a thought that just crossed my mind. Even though the Tramp is a crook, even though he may be re-elected. There will be an end to… “IT!”.
Just think WWII. 5-6 years of worldwide pain, terror, suffering, many many deaths. Yet, in the end it was over. (We shall overcome!)
It’s predicted Tramp won’t leave the White House willingly. What…..?
Well, then the sh.. will hit the fan. Americans won’t allow it.
So true 😊
PS. All the more reason for you to go back to Paree. 😉
I don’t need a reason just the time! 😊
I know, I know, just teasing.
🙂
Every picture tells a story. Yours are eloquent.
Thank you Michael. Coming from you, I’m very much honoured… (Me? I just press the button!)
Take care.
Brian
I don’t know if I’m quite so bold to do street photography like you do. It has never been a strength for me. Sometimes I get lucky with a very long lens. Do you just walk up and take somebody’s picture? And speaking of your photography, it’s a lot more than just pressing the button, my friend. It’s spotting, framing, waiting for the right moment…
Thank you again. Bold? Yes, it’s a new technique. What I did in Paris was to pretend I was texting, turn the sound off, lift a bit and click. So the spotting is there. But a bit too close. Or, I walk up to the people and ask. Big smile. Framing? Since I don’t really have time to sneak the picture, I frame later in Photoshop.
The long lens I miss for animal photography, but I stopped photography for about ten years because of the bulk and weight. Happy with the Iphone.
The technique seems to work. Very nice images.
Thank you.
I was thinking the same thing about the stories behind the faces.
Well, thank you both. You sort of put your finger on the value of those pix. There is a story behind each unknown traveller’s face. A happy or sad or tired story. But a story nonetheless. Hmmm. Food for thought.
Do I hear a collection of travelers’ short stories softly percolating?
LOL. No, I don’t think so. I already have too many books unpublished and short stories (about 20 of the latter). One of my problems is that I write, wrote in Spanish and English. And have at least half a dozen stories “percolating” in my head. Maybe I will find a way to easily translate the Spanish stories into English.
Be good Liz
Though, come to think of it, it would a nice exercise to “brew” a story uniting them… Hmmm.
You’re getting your skillz out with these. Quietly brilliant.
Thank you. I’m just faking like I’m texting, then click, with the sound off, of course, then photoshop, frame, crop, adjust light. 🙂
(Got to admit it’s fun. My wife says I will get in trouble. She’s probably right)
Cheers
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Hihhh. She’s is mostly right, no?
Haha. So she says. 😉
Interesting selection. My fear in Italy is that I must get written permission to feature anybody in my photos (so I’m told). I tend to stick with doors, churches, landscape and the like.
Agreed. In France it’s probably the same or twice as worse… 🙂 Right to privacy. Which is fine. But then, if I asked any of these people: “Hi, can I take a photo?” Most would probably say no, or fake a smile. So right now, I “sneak”. And I do doors, churches too, but people? Wow. They’re the best “subject”. Merci pour ta visite et commentaire.
Belle galerie de portraits de célébrités éphémères ! Merci, Brieuc !
Pas de quoi cher ami. 🙂
All great shots. I’m partial to the flautist and the cyclist.
I thought you might. You are a fellow of impeccable taste.
Aside from the obvious charms, the pose struck by the cyclist is near perfect.
A sculptor would have a field day with it.
The contemplative look, the totally impractical boots, the hand on her thigh. The entire ”ensemble” is magnification – and you were there at that moment to capture it.
Very thorough analysis my friend. 🙂 I like the concept of magnification.
And I spent several long seconds waiting to click as there was another – irrelevant – cyclist right in the frame… (Wiping my brow)
….. magnificent , even! 🙂
Indeed.
And on another subject, I thought about you and your wife the other day, our orchids have gone wild, sprouting new buds and flowers everyday. Though this our “winter”, slightly chilly in the morning and at night. Maybe they’re “Sudafrikan” orchids? 😉
Very pretty pictures …
Is not the photographer a bit mocking, sometimes?
Always question yourself. (Especially after a – gentle – slap on the wrist), allow me to go back to the post.
Reviewed the post. Je suis moqueur, parfois, but I will plead not guilty in this case. 🙂
😀
Point is: I am fond of my “unaware” subjects. They gave me (unknowingly” a moment of life. Though I still have the conflict of “stealing” their image and privacy. Insoluble… 😉
Maybe they will read this article someday … 🙂
I know. And they will sue me! 🙂
Great collection of photos, we don’t have to go far to find interesting every day details and moments and people. I should definitely look up that street photographer who post his work on the walls of the city, I’m certainly intrigued. Thanks for sharing and have a good day 😀
There are zillions of subjects to see everywhere. Makes things interesting. Here’s the link to backinthestreet:
https://www.lesnumeriques.com/photo/repere-sur-instagram-jean-baptise-pellerin-alias-backtothestreet-pu123029.html
Beautiful Life Moments!
Thank you. I thought so. (Though I feel bad taking sneaky pictures…) Maybe I should get therapy.
Oh! ha ha… I don’t think so! 🙂 To be in a slight “contro la tendenza,” it makes me feel good…;)
Does “L’homme révolté” by Camus have your preference?
I remember reading “The Myth of Sisyphus” and “Existentialism, the Absurd and rebellion” by Albert Camus, but I don’t think I read “The Rebel (L’Homme révolté)” …
I like Camus a lot, he is an existentialist, maybe a little more human than Sartre, but I understand when he advances the idea that from the day we are born, we advance inexorably to death.The fact that we are born to die makes the human condition inherently absurd. This is especially true given that we are hardwired to search for meaning but are continually thwarted by the irrationality of the world…
Thank you, I’ll look for Camus’s book …
Well you are in for a treat. You also “need” to read L’étranger and la Peste… Camus perfectly described the absurdness of life. And died an absurd death. Sigh. How many more books could he have written?
And yes, our quest for sense or meaning constantly bangs on the wall… (I confess I am there right now…) (Maybe I will find another direction. Someday)
Take care of yourself Doina.
🙂
🙂 You too! Have a nice weekend!
That was a fun trip! I adore the shot that was originally a glass plate! At first I thought 1830’s but the dress looks 1930’s.
We’ve come a long way from glass plate images, yet it seems interest is returning.
Yes, definitely 1930’s. The hair, the gloves, the dress…
Glass plates are pieces of history. And now we have the technology to revive those moments.
Yes, we left the Kurds, who were our friends, without protection. WE didn’t, the idiot did. But we aren’t doing anything to change it. Horrible. This is another excellent and fun post. Thank you.
Agreed. We did not. The Tramp did. And the Allies. France isn’t doing much to help the Kurds. Horrible it is.
Glad you liked the post.
Cheers.
The insanity continues.
It does. But sooner or later it will run into a wall… (Sooner I hope)
Soooo good. Loved seeing this pics.
Thank you Alison. I’m sure it reminded you of Paris. Hope all is well with you?
To sleep on the train is one thing, to nod off on a cycle is another. Merci for beauty.
Thank you paul. One should always strive for Beauty. (I am a strong believer in the ancient Greeks concept of Beauty, Good and Truth)
I’m with you on that, a toast to the Greeks.
A toast it is. I’ve almost finished Bertrand Russel’s History of philosophy. Great book. Puts many things back in place. The sad part is: we don’t seem to have improved much in the past 2000 years…
No we have not, and currently we are in a a vacuum, with no theme, vision, or sense of a move forward.
You are soo right about the vacuum. My personal critique of Macron, on whom I laid some hope initially, is that he has no vision for France. What and who do we want to be and do. The Germans do, they want to be a big Switzerland. Fine. Does France want to be a large Belgium? Ther can be no action without vision and no strategy without goals. (Years in Marketing to support that)
Thank you for your thoughts.
I hear you, and feel your concern too, we now have a govt that is less than a year in, and we have no vision, no plan, making it up as we go along.
It seems like a world wide trend, right? I used to belong to a world-wide Research network. I wanted to ask a simple question, worldwide: “How satisfied, or not, are you of your current government?” 5 point scale. 🙂
The results would be scary.
-200 🙂
Very likely. 😦
😦
An alternate solution is Belgium. They never seem to have a majority to form a government. Sometimes spend several years without one. They don’t seem to be in worse shape… 😉
Ah, what a baseline definition, that’s what we here have come to here, in no worse shape 🙂
I love the two tattooed lady photos and the beauty by the statue outside the Louvre. That was well taken friend.
Thank you Jenny. I still feel a bit like an invader of privacy. But then if you pose that way in front of the statue for another photographer I feel ubr in the public domain. 😎
It is and I go back and forth myself. I don’t typically do it but I want to all the time…
Better to have remorse than regrets. 🙂 I’ve “shot” about 150-200 travellers this summer. Only a handful “made” me. Which can lead to a problem. I already have my lines ready. Apologise and delete. 🙂
But the dilemma remains.
You are going to have to get one of those undercover pen cameras for your shirt pocket. 🤣
My name is Bond… Brian Bond. 🙂
I enjoyed the journey very much! Great, expressive pictures, my friend!
Thank you Jill. Glad you liked the travellers. I hope none ever see their picture, otherwise I’ll get sued”! (Or I will gladly take their picture down)
Heh heh … well, you put them all in a positive light, so I doubt they would mind much.
Hopefully. Fingers crossed
So many lost in thought, which could very well be how we pass most of our days. Hope you are well and happy, cher Brian. Bises.
Working on it chère Julie… 🙂
The metro is a crowded place, invading one’s private bubble more often than not. So people take refuge in their inner self. (And a nosy “photographer” catches bits of their souls…)
Biz back
You’ve outdone yourself with the travelers this week!
Thank you Liz. The picture taking is a bit nreve-racking, but after editing, those are fun posts. (TBH? Despite all their/our flaws? I love humans) 😉
Be good.
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Enjoyed every single photo of the time space shuttle – ha
And I have some catching up to do on your posts – looking forward to them cos I leave all
Enriched with culture
Thank you. 🙂
Not sure about the “culture”. Just been around, ‘s all.
😋 🌎
Great to see you mastering your craft out on the streets! And thank you for the introduction (which I missed the first time around) to “Backtothestreet”. Very cool stuff.
Craft? Haha! Let’s say it was an experiment. Fun but risky. Europeans in general and the French in particular are everyday more “touchy” about their privacy. And have every right to be. 🙂
I may – increasingly – walk up to people and simply ask. (Which is what Backtostreet is actually doing)
I have made some incredible connections by simply walking up to people and asking to make their photograph. Highly recommend it!
I do it sometimes. Actually most my “day of the Dead” photos in Mexico were done like that. Walk up. Big smile. Pretty please… 🙂
I am sure you charm everyone you meet on the street
LOL. You’re only too kind. I don’t think so… 😉