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Paris, Mon Amour… 💕
Paris: Sunset and the Eiffel Tower - Notre Dame View
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The clouds
opened
their palms,
storm-fingers
brushing against
the sunset
that caressed
the horizon.
And the bells
of Notre Dame
rang,
reverberating
over the rooftops
of Paris.
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This was taken on a typically moody Paris evening with my Sony A7R. I had climbed the 387 steps to the top of Notre Dame de Paris earlier in the week with a wonderful person who worked for , an organization that tends to the historic monuments and landmarks of Paris.
While standing on the highest platform of Notre Dame, I expressed to her that it would be incredible to photograph the sunset or even dusk from such an impressive vantage point.
Typically, throughout the year, access to the top of Notre Dame is restricted to the morning and afternoon hours. However, as fortune would have it, the summer hours had just started and evening access to the top of the cathedral which itself dates back to the 1100s would be starting later in the week.
Later in the week, I made my way up the 387 steps again later in the week on an evening when I wasn’t sure that the weather would cooperate. It didn’t really matter to me though. The view, in any weather condition, is nothing short of breath-taking.
I stood there as the storm clouds receded over Paris revealing a subdued sunset, a perfect backdrop for the tiny Eiffel Tower that stood in the distance.
And it was absolutely sublime.
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Paris: mid-afternoon looking out over the rooftops of Montmartre towards the Eiffel Tower from a room at .
So many chimneys…
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I return to New York City in 2 days. Paris has been an amazing journey. I have been doing the bulk of my updates (photos) to . I am looking forward to going back home to make many substantial posts about my month in France.
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Paris - Eiffel Tower at Night
Paris is the feeling you get,
on nights when
there was nothing else
but dreams
and stars in the eyes:
glints of hope
masquerading as
star-dust.
Paris is the
star-dust
that gleams
in the eyes
on nights
like this
when dreams
merge
with reality.
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Taken on a magical night last night at the
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I opened up my inbox here on my travel photography blog for the first time in months and just realized there are dozens of messages (!). As I am actively still traveling, I just wanted to say that if I haven’t responded, I promise I am not ignoring you. I have just been on the go for the last 3 weeks here in France and have been mainly on my phone (this laptop moment is rare!).
One of the main questions I seem to be getting is how I got my start in photography and consequently in travel photography. I did at some point attempt to start to answer those questions over on my New York City blog on my .
However, you have all made me realize that I sorely need to update that page and possibly make a series of posts about 1) my photography career, and 2) a more in-depth discussion about how I got from where I was nearly five years ago to where I am now (it’s a jagged path full of heartbreak, tears, and a lot of exquisitely beautiful moments).
I plan on doing this once I am back in New York City next week after I recover from this epic adventure. In the meantime, thank you for all of the super-kind messages and discussion.
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Paris - Eiffel Tower Room View - Shangri-La
The view from the terrace of my room at the today.
It doesn’t get much better than this.
—I have been posting all of my in-the-moment Paris updates to , in case you are curious. I tend to post more sporadically to the blog since I am still actively traveling around Paris. Twitter has been getting a lot more of my spontaneous photography posts.
Don’t worry though. I will be doing massive South of France and Paris photo-sets with writing once I am back in New York City :)
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