{"id":38506,"date":"2024-04-01T11:05:39","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T18:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/?p=38506"},"modified":"2024-04-02T10:03:06","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T17:03:06","slug":"paris-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2024\/04\/01\/paris-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>One last visit to The City of Light.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>My <a href=\"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2024\/03\/09\/the-eiffel-tower\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first visit<\/a> in September, 1974 had been nothing but joyful, confirming my love of all things French.<\/p>\n<p>By October, 1977 my utter disillusionment with England saw a one way ticket to America in my baggage but, before boarding that Pan Am flight, a second and final visit to Paris was indicated.  I simply wanted to cement the images of that gorgeous city in my mind.  And in my Leica.<\/p>\n<p>These are among the very last monochrome film images I ever took.  Thereafter, once in America, my salary would double, my taxes would halve, my suit count would rise from one to three and my prospects would improve two orders of magnitude.  And Kodachrome and the local printing place would obsolete TriX and the smelly chemicals and enlarger in the home darkroom\/bedroom.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/3820_1_.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n<i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/5653_.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n<i>At the Arc de Triomphe<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/5654_.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n<i>Self portrait with Leica<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/5657_.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n<i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/5661_.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n<i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/5668_.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n<i>At the Elys\u00e9e Palace, Cadillac and all<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/5669_.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n<i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/5670_.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n<i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/5685_.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n<i>Wedding in Parc Monceau, quite possibly the most perfect public park &#8230;. after the <a href=\"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2024\/03\/10\/the-tuileries-garden-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tuileries Gardens<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/5692_.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n<i><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Parc_Monceau\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Parc Monceau<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/5696_.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n<i>At the Holocaust Museum.  Appropriately spiky and threatening<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/5697_.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n<i>At the Holocaust Museum<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/5699_.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n<i>Caf\u00e9 Cher(ie)<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/5700_.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n<i>Working girl<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/5708_.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n<i>The Venus de Milo has seen better days<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/5711_.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n<i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/5720_.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n<i>Gorilla<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/5729_.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n<i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/5732_.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n<i>Mailman<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/5737_.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n<i>Train conductor<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/5740_.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n<i>Gendarmes<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/5747_.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n<i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/5752_.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n<i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/5773_.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n<i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/5782_.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n<i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/5784_.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n<i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/5790_.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n<i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/5795_.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n<i>If the English are a nation of animal lovers then the French are a nation of dog lovers<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/5802_.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n<i>Pipe and pigeons<\/i><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Leica M3, 35mm Summaron, TriX.  What could be more perfect for street photography?  All images &#8216;scanned&#8217; using the Nikon D800.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One last visit to The City of Light. My first visit in September, 1974 had been nothing but joyful, confirming my love of all things French. By October, 1977 my utter disillusionment with England saw a one way ticket to America in my baggage but, before boarding that Pan Am flight, a second and final &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2024\/04\/01\/paris-revisited\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Paris revisited<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio","category-photographs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38506"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38526,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38506\/revisions\/38526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}