Two days in Paris

bike21

As an airline pilot, I’'m quite fortunate to get to see the world on the cheap and often on short notice. So when the opportunity comes to make even a short holiday somewhere fun who am I to say no? My wife and I happened to have 4 days off together recently and since the snowfall at home in Colorado had been mediocre we decided to skip snowboarding that week and fly somewhere instead. So off to Paris it was.

I packed light for this one, just the D300, Sigma 18-200 & Nikon 50mm f/1.8. I’m unsure of what’s easier, having two weeks to make great images or having a shortened time span of about 55 hours on the ground. After getting home and sorting through my images, I was fairly pleased with the results. I hope you are too!



Where to go? Charles de Gaulle (CDG) Airport Train Station. Always love looking at the departure boards and seeing all the wonderful places to go.



What isn’t to like about Parisian architecture?




A meal with a view. This gent had stopped just to feed the birds.




I never go on holiday without taking a picture of a bicycle somewhere! Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel.





Good fuel for body & soul – cappuccino and pain aux raisin. Bon-appetit!





It’s always tough to get a ‘fresh’ image of Le Eiffel.



The ever-enchanting Louvre.





My wife as we await the Metro to take us back to our hotel.

studio12c

Good job,

LoganH

Great images! Love the image of "Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel". Also love the eiffel tower through the branches. Did you also get one with the branches out of focus and the tower in focus? Would be awesome to see that one as well.

red_zone

Who's hosting the pictures? I'm getting icons on both here and your blog. Part of the new website? From what does show up on your blog, you have a very interesting and unique viewpoint. I like lego-man taking pictures of the Eiffel Tower.
All the best.

bike21

LoganH wrote: »

Great images! Love the image of "Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel". Also love the eiffel tower through the branches. Did you also get one with the branches out of focus and the tower in focus? Would be awesome to see that one as well.

Thanks! In fact I do have one!

bike21

red_zone wrote: »

Who's hosting the pictures? I'm getting icons on both here and your blog. Part of the new website? From what does show up on your blog, you have a very interesting and unique viewpoint. I like lego-man taking pictures of the Eiffel Tower.
All the best.

Just fixed the links a few moments ago, I'm sticking with Smugmug for my image hosting but transferred my domain so I can run a Wordpress based front-end now. It has caused more work than I anticipated, but will be worth it for sure.

Thanks for the kudos on the pics too!

ian408

Nice to have a job that allows for some advanced scouting. Great job on the photos. Especially, the pain aux raisin & cappuccino :drool

Lightsearcher

Just beautiful..!!! I just arrived from a trip from London and Paris.

You did a great job.

Marcelo

bike21

ian408 wrote: »

Nice to have a job that allows for some advanced scouting. Great job on the photos. Especially, the pain aux raisin & cappuccino :drool

Thanks! We love French pastries for sure, we've tried twice since returning home to make our own pain aux raisin with marginal success. Third time will hopefully be a charm!

bike21

Lightsearcher wrote: »

Just beautiful..!!! I just arrived from a trip from London and Paris.

You did a great job.

Marcelo

Thanks so much! Haven't been to London yet, definitely on the list.

ian408

bike21 wrote: »

Thanks! We love French pastries for sure, we've tried twice since returning home to make our own pain aux raisin with marginal success. Third time will hopefully be a charm!

I've never made it. Mostly cause I suck at making pastry. But to me, the perfect one is not dry and it's not 'wet' either. The pastry is a sort of like phyllo dough. And it has enough raisins. There's a place near me called Sugar, Butter, Flour which has ones.