De meilleures photos ici (par exemple). La précédente a l’avantage d’être de moi, mais ça se voit aussi sur la qualité :P Admirez quand même aussi les couleurs du coucher de soleil!
Depuis le 1er juillet, la Tour Eiffel s’habille de bleu à la nuit tombée. Apparement, un hommage à l’Europe qui durera les 2 premiers mois de la présidence française (ie juillet-août)…
Rien de bien neuf pour les Parisiens, voir cet ancien post ici même.
Yesterday was our national day and among many other celebrations, the one that cought my interest (as always) was the fireworks!
We’d settled on the Passerelle de Solférino (near Musée d’Orsay) which ended up being a tad too far as part of the fireworks were too low and hidden by buildings. But still, I thought I’d share a little picture with you:
And happy belated “Quatorze juillet”! :D (As a dignified French, I will not say “Bastille day”! :P )
You know how it is: summer is here, so is the heat… One wants to get some fresh air… What better way than to go boating?
Did you know you can actually do that in the very center of the city? Right in the Luxembourg gardens! Yes you can!
I have pics!
Here a little boat:
But one has to be cautious! Accidents happen…
And that’s without taking into account the dreadful and dangerous pirates!
Or worse… The baby ducklings and their wicked beak!
So many adventures! :D
O wait… no that’s a pic of the Côte d’Azur… Not quite Paris-Plage, huh?
But soon! Paris-Plage should start around the 20th of July, more details then!
Between Eiffel Tower, Montparnasse Tower, top of Arc de Triomphe, tower of Notre Dame Cathedral and the likes, there really are a lot of vantage viewpoints of the city, offering magnificent views, especially on clear days. The downside is, to get to these locations, it’ll cost you a little bit of money.
Today, I’ll like to share some of the views from Eiffel Tower that I managed to capture with my little point and shoot camera. They may seem a bit cluttered (it was not exactly a clear day either) but play spot the main landmarks within these images anyway. ;-)
Well it’s not that difficult really, naming the landmarks, isn’t it? I do wonder though, how different it would be, had I used a good dSLR or something to that effect. Better zoom lenses, better play of angles, or even swapping the lenses for something fun such as fish eye lens - it definitely will spice things up somewhat!
Maybe I should consider that for my next photography expedition. For now though, time to save up so I can get those lovely photographic gears in the first place. ;-)
Rien de neuf me direz vous, cela fait plus d’un an que la tour centrale de Jussieu est en travaux ! Et vous aurez bien raison…
Mais : la tour, qui était totalement évidée ces derniers temps, voit ses travaux prendre une autre allure. Il s’agit maintenant de “reboucher” la structure ! En effet, depuis plusieurs semaines, on voit la tour qui commence à se recouvrir pudiquement…
Photo à l’appui :
Toute la partie inférieure reste encore nue, vide et transparente (moi j’ai toujours trouvé ça terriblement impressionnant de voir à travers un tour de 90m de haut !), mais la partie supérieure commence à être recouverte, lentement mais sûrement.
La fin des travaux (de la tour, pas de Jussieu en entier !) est prévue pour fin 2008, à suivre…
Look at the picture and tell us what you see.
Yes, that’s blue sky!!!!! Blue sky I tell you! And also, not featured on the picture, there’s a great big ball of fire hurtling through the sky… They told me it was called “the sun”. Unbelievable I tell you!
Ok, so just in case you haven’t understood: today was a sunny day here in Paris :D The second in a row actually!
So well, I’m not complaining because I love blue and the sun looks nice, but honestly it’s so HOT! So yeah, basically I’m complaining of the heat :P
Anyhow, I’ve got a picnic planned on thursday so I hope this will go on a bit… just not too much… the plants on my window sill are really suffering!
Just because :)
