Remember Paris - show us pics

[nikola]

Do you have a colorful memory of Paris, interesting tip or something else that you can share with us followed with a nice picture that evokes that memory in you like cookies and tea did to Proust?

Post a picture with a little follow up text, and keep discussion under control. 🙂

(btw. I'm going to Paris on my honeymoon in three weeks, and was searching through threads here for tips where to go and what to see, what to eat... found some good ones... so I came up on this idea of a little storybook tips guide)

 

[le vrai rdu]

advice on where to go for honeymoon or for photo travel ?

 

[le vrai rdu]

sacré coeur, louvres, jardin albert kahn, luxembourg, le panthéon (you can go on top of it), la sainte chapelle, parc des buttes chaumont , les bassins de la vilette, musée de la vir romantique, tour eiffel, rue mouffetard , jardin des plantes are nice places to hang around 🙂

 

[TimSmith-Laing]

http://www.jpgmag.com/photos/886226

This is from my daily commute when I was living in Paris. I took it in Pont Marie metro station, just on the rive droite, opposite the Ile Saint Louis.

Pont Marie is just down from the Marais, which is for my money one of the most schizophrenically interesting places in the city. It was once an entirely Jewish area, which has become incredibly fashionable and a hotspot for gay Parisians in the most literal sense. Despite the incursions it's still the heart of the Jewish community in Paris, home to the museum of Jewish art, some amazing middle-eastern food, etc. Rue Vielle du Temple is well worth a wonder, just off it there's another road packed with Falafel places and Kosher bakeries.

If you take the Metro to Pont Marie, you can wonder over onto the Ile itself, and then on to the Pont de la Tournelle, with its amazing statue of Paris' patron saint. Or you can turn away from the river and walk up to the Marais. On the way up to the Rue Rivoli, you'll find the Maison Internationale de la Photographie, which is fantastic. For something more romantic though, there's a great restaurant called Cafe Louis Philipe, just down the road from Pont Marie, by the Pont Louis Philipe. When I was in Paris, it was cheapish with really fantastic food.

Plus, all round there are the bouquinistes, or booksellers on the river bank. It's just a great bit of town to wander around. But for sheer bustle, definitely go to the Marais.

Have a great honeymoon!

Tim

 

[35mmdelux]

Some good walking shoes and trek around town is what I do. Enjoy, and congrats to you and yours.

 

[robklurfield]

A lovely old church in Les Halles, not far from the Pompidou Center, which itself should not be missed.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/37531245@N08/3449430216/

A church for artists, as evidenced by the piece that was hanging from the ceiling this past April.

 

[le vrai rdu]

it is saint eustache church 😉

 

[FrankS]

I still have to contact print and scan negs from last summer which included 3 days in Paris.

 

[Trius]

I still have to contact print and scan negs from last summer which included 3 days in Paris.

Get on it!

 

[mfogiel]

My shots from Paris have been the last from before the RF era... Mainly shot with the FM3A and the 25/2.8 Distagon ZF:

here is a quick slideshow: http://www.flickr.com/photos/59177039@N00/sets/72157600129345564/show/

 

[FrankS]

Very excellent images, M!

 

[remegius]

My shots from Paris have been the last from before the RF era... Mainly shot with the FM3A and the 25/2.8 Distagon ZF

Lovely. Every time I think of Paris I get palpitations of the heart. Do you remember what films you used for any of these shots?

Cheers...

Rem

 

[mfogiel]

It was still the XP2 at EI 320 period... later I shot it some more time at EI 200.

 

[urban_alchemist]

Just walk. Preferably at night. On the banks of the Seine.

Paris is all about walking.

 

[samoksner]

Good times and bad times...

As a photog, you'll have a blast in the metro.

And the streets are very photogenic, the light there is "special", it's the combination of humidity and pollution which makes the light so nice.

And of course, you will eventually have to leave. Saddest part of the trip is leaving, of course you do get to take beautiful memories back home with you.

 

[Leigh Youdale]

If you can be bothered looking there are a couple of folios of Paris snaps taken in June at
< http://gallery.me.com/lmyoudale>
One is in colour, the other B&W (with just a handful of converted colour shots). Some on an Ixus 6mp p&s but most on film using Bessa R3A and R4A.
The colour shots are reasonably well organised but the B&W are in no particular order.

 

[Ben B.]

Just walk.
[...]
Paris is all about walking.

You're absolutely right! And it applies to a lot of cities... It even applies to photography itself! Depardon wrote a book about that called "Errance" which means wandering or roving.

And the streets are very photogenic, the light there is "special", it's the combination of humidity and pollution which makes the light so nice.

omg Paris, polluted? And I've just moved in... Maybe I should reconsider? 😉 Looking forward to taking photographs around here once again! RF is great for that, too.



Benjamin.

 

[remegius]

It was still the XP2 at EI 320 period... later I shot it some more time at EI 200.

I don't get some folks claim that C41 BW's have no "soul". To me these shots have a wonderful tonality to them. I've recently been shooting a lot of BW400CN and find it to be an extremely versatile film, not to mention easy to scan.

Cheers...

Rem

 

[sunsworth]

From when I lived there...

http://www.steveunsworth.co.uk/Albums/Paris_on_the_streets/index.htm

http://www.steveunsworth.co.uk/Albums/Paris_2003_01/index.htm

http://www.steveunsworth.co.uk/Albums/chinese_new_year/album1/index.htm

 

[homesick]

two bromoil prints after one of my trips to paris
taken with leica on apx 100