Arc de Triomphe

November 9, 2007 8:06 PM | Related Categories: travel

Well I guess the regular Paris photo bloggers won't feel the need to include the Arc, but as a visitor I just couldn't resist it.

Leica M8 24mm Elmarit

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You had a risky position there, but the photo is great. For a Dutchie Paris is always good. This city will never bore me.
# Posted By Bouncing Light | 11/10/07 7:12 PM
Did you have a safety vest on?
# Posted By Letitia | 11/11/07 12:34 AM
Interesting to speculate on the time of night when you took this....the road is very quiet. Have you noticed how the city traffic waxes and wanes: 7.30pm..manic as they go theatre/dinner, then quiet at 9.00pm, manic again as they all come out around 10.30pm, then quietish 'til 2.30am when they start to emerge from the night clubs, then a short lull and at 4.00am the metropolis awakes and the early workers begin to swarm in? "The city never sleeps", but it has very clear rhythms.
# Posted By Chuckeroon | 11/11/07 9:43 AM
wow! great shot! you took a considerable risk there, but I must say I admire the shots like this one! just great! thanks.
# Posted By Jorge | 11/11/07 4:36 PM
RICHARD ! J'avais parlé de l'Arc de Triomphe que je ne pouvais pas photographier dans mon post / la verrière de l'hotel Marriot !
Bien sûr, tu as bien fait de le faire, toi à ta façon. Tu t'es arrêté au milieu des Champs Elysées.
Hier, je suis passée de l'autre coté dans le même axe et pour cause de 11 novembre, commémoration de la fin de la 1ère WW, il y avait un immense drapeau qui pendait entre les arches. C'était !... Splendide !

Comme tu étais pour prendre la photo, tu regardais vers Cergy qui est ma ville. Nous sommes dans l'axe des Champs, de la Défense. Nous avons un "Axe Majeur".
# Posted By Cergie | 11/12/07 6:19 PM
Les Champs Elysées, le soir du 31 décembre, sont fermés à la circulation. Le champagne et la bière coulent à flot. Les métros sont gratuits pour éviter qu'il y ait des incidents de circulation. L'avenue est noire de monde.
Nous n'y allons plus depuis que nos enfants ne sont plus avec nous ce soir là. Hormis si nous avons des amis qui en ont envie...
# Posted By Cergie | 11/12/07 6:22 PM
Great. I have to presume you didn't have your tripod, am I in right? Did it by free hand? In this case the result it's wonderful !
# Posted By Fabrizio - ikol22 | 11/14/07 9:02 AM
@chucker - you're right about cities, although some of them seem to have severe cardiac arrhythmia

@laetitia - I'm Scottish - we don't wear vests

@Fabrizio - I managed to steady the camera on a traffic bollard

@cergie - aha, I forgot...
# Posted By Richard | 11/14/07 9:57 AM
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