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French Flair

August 03, 2014 • Leave a Comment

I have always admired the daring of the French in taking aesthetic risks with urban planning and redevelopment. This is not just a matter of recent history, exampled by the Pyramide du Louvre, or the Centre Beaubourg. This “contre jour” image of Notre Dame de Paris emphasises the vision of the Commission des Monuments Historiques and the magisteria...

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Down The Rabbit Hole

July 25, 2014 • Leave a Comment

Is serendipity also magic? Not quite, in this case, which was the result of me looking over the parapet of the Pont Alexandre III one night in 2009, during one of the many Art Sales shows based at the Grand Palais. Magic and Weird Colours The rabbit scene below entranced me immediately, but the really serendipitous thing was the arrival o...

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All That Jazz

July 17, 2014 • 2 Comments

Photographing live music, particularly Jazz, is one of my “passion” subjects, so I was moved to take these images of the Shai Maestro Trio appearing at the New Morning in Paris this April, in an effort to evoke the passion of the musicians as they lose themselves in their own form of artistic expression. Cameras Are Terrible Professional...

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I’m Walking In The Air

July 11, 2014 • Leave a Comment

This image follows my “rule number 6” from last week’s blog. Because I had not been able to stop and invest time in capturing the image I wanted to create, I made a return visit to a place that I had noted earlier as being interesting: underneath a pedestrian bridge in the atrium of Paribas Bank’s headquarters in Paris. Catalan Architect Th...

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The Hidden City

July 05, 2014 • Leave a Comment

Many years of living in Paris and a casual walk in a district I thought I know well cannot prevent this mysterious lady surprising me with yet more revelations of its discreet architectural gems. Here are two, which I stumbled on within a few minutes of each other only a few streets away from the Champs Elysées. The Pagoda I stumbled on a...

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