Prophotoresource.com is dedicating a full month to street photography, which is an amazing initiative. I was invited to participate as guest writer with an article on the topic of « Luck in street photography ». Click here to discover it !
Leica M9 with 90mm Tele Elmarit at F2.8, 1/250, ISO1600
After five wonderful years in the City of Lights, our last night in Paris has arrived. My state of mind is like this picture, some shadows on the Sacré Coeur but a bright horizon line full of adventures.
Indeed, two weeks from now, a new adventure will start: 80 weeks around the world. I will launch a new photoblog dedicated to this trip as street photography will be a big part of it. Meanwhile, and for a few months, I will keep posting Paris shots on this blog. I have always tried to post shots taken during the current week, but from now on I will have to turn to my archives. I hope you will not mind but be sure that the day I feel I have no more quality shots to show, it will end.
So stay tuned for the launch of 80 weeks around the soon. First stage of the trip will be a far away country whose capital is very reminiscient of Paris ! I’ll let you guess ;) (click on picture to enlarge)
Leica M9 with 90mm Tele-Elmarit at F8, 1/500, ISO200
Paris brings out the best of its visitors fashion wise. Many of them take special care to dress as if they had to honour the city of glamour. And they do honour it. (click on picture to enlarge)
Leica M9 with 35mm Summilux Asph at F1.4, 1/1000, ISO200
Paradise on earth doesn’t fool anybody anymore. (click on picture to enlarge)
Leica M9 with 35mm Summilux Asph at F2.8, 1/125, ISO800
No kids yet, but great plans for the future (click on picture to enlarge)
Leica M9 with 35mm Summilux Asph at F1.4, 1/500, ISO200
It is always a special event in Paris when the Christmas lights are turned on the trees of Les Champs-Elysées. Braving the bad weather, a man takes his son out for a walk on the enlightened Avenue. (click on picture to enlarge)
Leica M9 with 35mm Summilux Asph at F1.4, 1/125, ISO1600
An old man passes by a restaurant window pulling its trolley. A vision of the old Paris in the Montmartre flooded by tourism nowadays.
Leica M9 with 35mm Summilux Asph at F1.4, 1/1000, ISO200
A man engages a duel with a bear at the Disney Store. Or was it the sudden memory resurgence of an old brown Teddy bear he knew decades ago ? (click on picture to enlarge)
Leica M9 with 35mm Summilux Asph at F1.4, 1/350, ISO200
A girl is busy hanging decoration on the window display of a store in Montmartre. For a moment, I almost thought she was a marionette whose movements were activated by the hands of her colleague. (click on picture to enlarge)
Leica M9 with 35mm Summilux Asph at F1.4, 1/1000, ISO200
As the sun slowly disappears behind the place, a phone suddenly rings in a busy street. A man picks it up and hears the four words sentence. Operation Clichy is on. (click on picture to enlarge)
Leica M9 with 90mm Tele Elmarit at F4, 1/2000, F4.0, ISO200
Though one can enjoy one of the best view in the world from Montmartre, this boy’s vision seems obnubilated by the young girl caught in his arms. (click on picture to enlarge)
Leica M9 with 90mm Tele Elmarit at F4.0, 1/2000, ISO200
or both … ;) (click on picture to enlarge)
Leica M9 with 35mm Summilux Asph at F1.4, 1/60, ISO1600
While you stare at dreamy worlds, life might pass by in your back. (click on picture to enlarge)
Leica M9 with 60mm Hexanon at F1.4, 1/90, ISO1600
In Paris, while girls smoke in the inside, boys chat on the outside. (click on picture to enlarge)
Leica M9 with 35mm Summilux Asph at F1.4, 1/180, ISO1600
Authenticity is probably lost the moment you start promoting it. (click on picture to enlarge)
Sigma DP2 at 40mm at F2.8, 1/250, ISO800 (staged shot)
A modern Esmeralda waits at the corner of a bridge crossing the Seine River. One could almost feel Quasimodo looking from the tower of Notre Dame. (click on picture to enlarge)
Leica M9 with 35mm Summilux Asph at F1.4, 1/60, ISO200 (staged shot)
… by the sound of good news ? (click on picture to enlarge)
Leica M9 with 35mm Summilux Asph at F1.4, 1/500, ISO800
In a street close to downtown work a few prostitutes. A red umbrella to protect from the rain, or a promess of warm moments to passer-by’s. (click on picture to enlarge)
Leica M9 with 60mm Hexanon at F1.4, 1/750, ISO200
When Nicolas Sarkozy was elected President of France, he took all the captains of the French industry to a dinner at exclusive Fouquet’s on Les Champs-Elysées. An economic downturn afterwards, most of them have suddenly become invisible. (click on picture to enlarge)
Leica M9 with 35mm Summilux Asph at F1.4, 1/250, ISO800
This week has probably been the rainiest so far this year. Usually good business days for valets, yet this boy definitely had a very dry uniform… (click on picture to enlarge)
Leica M9 with CV35mm Nokton SC at F1.4, 1/250, ISO800
