Paris, the city of romance.... in B&W

in #photography5 years ago

A friend of ours lives in Paris, when we went to Eurodisney a while ago we also visited her and her friend. I shot a bunch of pictures of which I thought that these came out nice in a black and white setting. At that time I had a Fuji Finepix camera, not as fancy as the DSLR from today ;) But it worked.

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Of course when you're in Paris you have to see the Arc the Triomph. It is directly on the end of the world famous champs elysee.
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The next picture is far from sharp but in a B&W setting I can live with it... It gives a blurry sight and with the cars moving it just looks like a piece out of a movie...
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The mouling Rouge, a club with a rich history. Of course the "can can girls" with the tune everybody knows....
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Basilique de sacre coeur. A church which totally (almost) lives on tourists these days. Around the church a lot of vendors of postcards and other useless stuff are pushing you to buy stuff from them.....But the building looks awesome.
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The next buildings I can't really recall their names....blush...sorry... But they are old for sure :)
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And of course as last...The Eiffel Tower.
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The eiffel tower is painted every (average) 7 years. Since it's building in total 18 times already.

A few figures ( source)

  • 25 painters – all of them specialists in work on metallic structures at great heights and on towers, and completely unaffected by vertigo;
  • 60 tonnes of paint;
  • the weight of eroded paint between two painting campaigns is estimated at 15 tonnes;
  • 50 kilometres of safety line;
  • 2 hectares of safety nets;
  • 1,500 brushes;
  • 1,500 overalls;
  • 5,000 sanding disks;
  • 1,000 "scrub planes" (scrapers);
  • 1,000 pairs of leather gloves;
  • budget: around 4 million Euros;
  • duration: around 18 months, without ever closing the monument to the public.

Have a great day !!

Peter

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Nice photos! I miss my Fuji Finepix camera. It was a really awesome unit. It had a bigger sensor than most compact cameras at the time so it took some really fantastic pictures. Even though it was only 6 MP it was still out performing my wife's 12 MP Canon point and shoot.

It was a awesome camera... I had much fun with it and a lot of photo's taken...
The focus wasn't very quick at night, but besides that it was a great camera..

I visited Central Paris when we did a trip to Euro Disney nearly 20 years ago. Ought to go back some time

I've been several times to Euro disney, my wife is a huge fan of Mickey, but I am fed up with all those happy sounds hahaha.. Paris as a city is great, although I loved London much more..

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