Street Photography in Paris

A woman looks over the Passy open air metro station. Incoming or outcoming train ?  Beginning or end ? (click on picture to enlarge)Leica M9 with 60mm Hexanon at F1.2, 1/1400, ISO160, ND filter

Shining lights outside, stars in the inside.  (click on picture to enlarge)

Leica M9 with 60mm Hexanon at F1.2, 1/125, ISO500

A street organist plays on a bridge over the Seine River.I guess he portrays Paris’ heritage much better than the Montparnasse Tower in the distance.  (click on picture to enlarge)

Leica M9 with 60mm Hexanon at F1.2, 1/2800, ISO160

A girl passes in front of le Grand Palais. Was her mind full of sparks, like the dome of the Palace ?  (click on picture to enlarge)

Leica M9 with 60mm Hexanon at F1.2, 1/710, ISO160

When the weight of years becomes too heavy, chic might seem like futile band-aid. (click on pictures to enlarge)

Leica M9 with 60mm Hexanon at F1.2, 1/180, ISO160

The shadow of a church, the shadows of a soul. (click on picture to enlarge)

Leica M9 with 60mm Hexanon at F1.2, 1/1000, ISO160

A girl contemplates the poster of the “Non, je ne dans pas !” (no I won’t dance). Rain droplets on top, and hearts inside.  (click on picture to enlarge)

Leica M9 with 35mm Summilux Asph at F1.4, 1/350, ISO160

Flowers on the shirts, not yet in the trees. This harsh Winter seems here to stay.  (click on picture to enlarge)

Leica M9 with 60mm Hexanon at F1.2, 1/4000, ISO160

Twenty years from now, will the little dreamer be on the cover of a magazine or on top of the best sellers charts ?  (click on picture to enlarge)

Leica M9 with 60mm Hexanon at F2.8, 1/125, ISO160

While thousands queue to climb on the Eiffel Tower … other go for a solitary walk among the puddles

Leica M9 with 35mm Summilux Asph at F1.4, 1/4000, ISO160  and 60mm Hexanon at F1.2, 1/350, ISO160

Oysters have all been eaten and Christmas tree are thrown away. Holidays are gone, tomorrow is gone. Feels like jumping in the Etna Volcano, just like Poet Empedocle whose verses can be read on these walls of Menilmontant.  (click on picture to enlarge)

Leica M9 with 35mm Summicron IV at F5.6, 1/125, ISO640

No more need to spray artificial white substances over Christmas trees on Les Champs-Elysées … the real snow is here.  (click on picture to enlarge)

Leica M9 with 60mm Hexanon at F1.2, 1/1400, ISO160

Be it for hot wine or chestnut, these treats will cheer you up. If only a few customers would show up. (click on picture to enlarge)

Leica M9 with 60mm Hexanon at F1.2, 1/2000, ISO160

As winds get colder every day, it seemed to have brought this lady and her “wolf pack” all the way from Siberia.  A ghost ? As you already know, even the snow is fake on … Les Champs-Elysées.  (click on picture to enlarge)

Leica M9 with 75mm Summicron at F2, 1/1000, ISO160

Somedays one would obviously rather be in the great white open with the wolves than Christmas shopping on the crowded Champs-Elysées. (click on picture to enlarge)

Leica M9 with 60mm Hexanon at F1.2, 1/180, ISO160

Weren’t things so much easier when we were kids ? ;)  (click on picture to enlarge)

Leica M9 with 35mm Summilux Asph at F1.4, 1/710, ISO160

Most people that discover the beauty of the Louvres Pyramide for the first time usually stand still for a few minutes in contemplation. Apparently, that is what happened to this group of friends on that rainy day when the sky almost merged with the soaked pavement.  (click on picture to enlarge)

Leica M9 with 60mm Hexanon at F1.2, 1/1400, ISO160

A girl sits alone in the dark. But she is alive …   (click on picture to enlarge)

Leica M9 with 60mm Hexanon at F1.2, 1/20, ISO640

A few years on the road, discovering the world and playing in wonderful places. This is the wonderful Bohemian life of young street artists.   (click on picture to enlarge)

Leica M8 with 35mm Lux Asph at F1.4, 1/125, ISO320

A walker-by crosses a square full of leaves in the Autumn rain under the look of an endlessly bored statue (click on picture to enlarge)

Leica M8 with 75mm Summicron at F4, 1/180, ISO640