Derrière
This statue was resident in the lobby at the Hotel Lutetia in Paris when we held the 2013 Photograph Paris with Harold Davis workshop. It amused me to snap an…
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July 6, 2013
Sacré Coeur Passage
La Basilique du Sacré Coeur de Montmartre sits high on a hill overlooking Paris. Controversial from long before the start of construction, the design of Sacré Coeur was a response to…
June 26, 2013
What’s behind the door?
Walking back to the hotel from Les Invalides I stopped to put on my macro lens and photograph this incredible door knocker. I think this was on the Rue de…
June 16, 2013
An iPhone in Paris
I like to say that the best camera to use is the one you have with you. I'll swear that photographers, and not cameras, make photos! So my iPhone camera…
June 13, 2013
Les Lumières de Paris
The lights of Paris, laid out below in this photo, remind me of a geometric pattern, thanks to the energetic city planning of Baron Hausmann back in the 1860s. Hausmann,…
June 4, 2013
Saint-Sulpice
Work on the Eglise Saint-Sulpice began in 1646, and has never been finished. The second largest church in Paris (after Notre Dame), Saint-Sulpice is on the border of the 5th…
June 3, 2013
Lighting the Eiffel Tower
The normal night lighting for the Eiffel Tower up until midnight is pretty nice, but every hour on the hour after dark it is additionally lit up like a kind…
June 1, 2013
Room with a View
In photography, as in life, there are always at least two points of view: that of the camera, and that of the subject. My title for Room with a View may…
May 28, 2013
Meditation at Giverny
As long as I can remember I have admired Claude Monet's waterlilies, so finally getting to visit Monet's garden at Giverny was like a pilgrimage for me. My group (shown here…
May 22, 2013
We’ll Always Have Paris
I'm just back from France, where as you may know I led a photography workshop in Paris. This was a hugely productive workshop, both for me and for the participants.…
May 20, 2013
Eiffel Tower from Sacre Coeur Dome
Up about three hundred claustrophobic steps in a narrow, winding staircase lies the gallery around the exterior of the dome of the Basilica of Sacre Coeur in Montmartre. This place…
May 18, 2013
Eiffel
Reviled when it was built as a fun house rocket ship and aesthetic monstrosity, it's amazing how the Tour Eiffel in fact manifests visual grace with decorative flourishes and curls…
May 15, 2013
Au Sauvignon
Across the street from the hotel and down the block, Au Sauvignon, a modest brasserie offered simple food and seats to watch the world go by. In the back, these…
May 12, 2013
La Tour Eiffel
At night, the area under the Eiffel Tower turns into an exciting display of lights, colors and people---as you can see in this iPhone shot of this small carousel in…
May 3, 2013
Parc de Sceaux
Andre Le Notre is the Frederick Law Olmsted of France. Like Olmsted, Le Notre is the essential landscape designer of his country. In Olmsted's case, much of the inspiration came…
May 1, 2013
San Sulpice
San Sulpice is a marvelous, unfinished baroque church. It's a few blocks from the Paris hotel my workshop group is staying in. The interior of this church was in an…
April 30, 2013
Luxembourg Gardens
I am staying around the corner from the Luxembourg Gardens, a fun place to photograph with its harmonious straight lines of trees and flowers in their springtime bloom. This is…
April 26, 2013
Opera Garnier
The Opera Garnier in Paris is baroque and magnificent. It's mostly not used for opera any more as they've built a modern opera house (I've heard, however, from several people…
April 26, 2013