Foto Friday

 

    

Reminder:

 PARIS PHOTO 2025

 November 13 - 16

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Sisters Sunday

 

 

A group of nuns outside the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris.

 

Window Wednesday

 

 

How much is that eggplant in the window?

 

Chez Marianne

2 rue des Hospitalières Saint-Gervais 75004

Flashback Friday

 

Feuille morte: a favorite photograph

 Paris Photo Week - November 2017

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 ...Toi, tu m'aimais et je t'aimais


Et nous vivions tous deux ensemble,


Toi qui m'aimais, moi qui t'aimais

Les feuilles mortes se ramassent à la pelle
Tu vois, je n'ai pas oublié
Les feuilles mortes se ramassent à la pelle
Les souvenirs et les regrets aussi
Et le vent du Nord les emporte
Dans la nuit froide de l'oubli
Tu vois, je n'ai pas oublié
La chanson que tu me chantais

 

... 

 

...You, you loved me and I loved you
And we both lived together,
You who loved me, me who loved you

 

Dead leaves are collected with a shovel

You see, I haven't forgotten

Dead leaves are collected with a shovel

Memories, and regrets too
And the north wind carries them away
In the cold night of oblivion
You see, I haven't forgotten
The song you sang to me

  

From Les Feuilles Mortes by Jacques Prévert / sung by Yves Montand

 

 

La place

 Place du Tertre on a black and white day.

Eiffel teeter

 

Master of trompe l'oeil photographer street artist JR strikes again, this time making the Eiffel Tower appear to teeter perilously over a deep ravine. As with his installation at the Pyramide du Louvre, the viewer has to stand in just the right spot so the foreground and tower line up.

 

 Place du Trocadéro

 

  Ends June 17, 2021

Watching #4

Last of my photos in this series, Eyes On Paris, of citywide photography installation by JR.
More in January newsletter.

Ends February 10, 2019

Above: at station Hôtel de Ville (Line 1)

Below: at station Nanterre-Université (RER A)
 

 (click to enlarge)

Watching #3

Above: at station Pyramides (Line 7)


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Eyes on Paris: I've been getting quite a few emails and texts asking whether it's safe to come to Paris.
 

Here's what U.S. food writer David Lebovitz has to say on the subject, along with some very good travel advice:

Is it safe to come to Paris?

Watching #2

And waiting.

Above: at station Hôtel de Ville (Line 1)

Watching #1

Giant photographs of eyes by Parisian artist JR have been installed at métro stations around the city.

Above: at station Saint-Michel (Line 4)

Reflective

Woman seated on the métro.

Most viewed photo 2017

Head in the clouds

First published November 4, 2017

My Personal Paris:

 

In 2017 FocusOnParis.com received many more visitors than I expected, and from all over the world. Thanks to excellent stats tools we could see that most came from the U.S. and France, followed by Australia, U.K., Israel and Germany. Visitors seemed to prefer, not necessarily in this order: Paris cafés, streets, anything to do with the Eiffel Tower, Montmartre, food, lifestyle (art, shopping, interiors, culture, luxury, fashion, architecture, monuments....). Many returned to the same photographs again and again, while others would linger for long periods. As “3 hours (or less) from Paris” turned out to be popular, this year I will try to include more photographs from some of our many travels, not all.

 

Nouveautés was new and also received many visitors, so I may develop that page. I’m told that my phone is due for an upgrade but so far so good and the truth is, I’d like to downgrade. Again, I thank everyone and will continue to provide glimpses into *my* Paris, and look forward to seeing even more of you in 2018! - BPJ

Slush fun

 

 

Snow on the butte Montmartre takes longer to melt than in the rest of the city.

Seagull in Paris

A seagull, one among many that migrated to Paris from the Normandy seacoast, atop a statue of Charles de Gaulle.

Feuille morte

 

 

November is photography month as exhibitions take over the city including not-to-be-missed PARIS PHOTO November 9 - 12.

PARIS PHOTO 2017

Grand Palais

3 avenue du Général Eisenhower 75008

 

Time pileup b&w

Yesterday's photograph in black and white.

Sleepy head

 

 

Seventy tons of stone went into "Écoute," Henri de Miller's monolithic sculpture just outside the church of Saint-Eustache.

8 heures du mat

An elderly woman in a café studies the morning paper.

Street view

From an upstairs window side table inside a small bistro on rue Tholozé.

Métro exit

 

Buildings behind this métro sign create a sharp angle at the exit.