Street Photography in Paris

… but shopping is apparently still a man’s least favourite activity. (click on picture to enlarge)

Leica M9 with 60mm Hexanon at F5.6, 1/125, ISO160

… does one give up and just walk away ?  (click on picture to enlarge)

Leica M9 with 35mm Summilux Asph at F1.4, 1/2000, ISO160

Can the friend be a better support than the bench ?  (click on picture to enlarge)

Leica M9 with 35mm Summilux Asph at F1.4, 1/90, ISO800

Three smiles and a mystery.  (click on picture to enlarge)

Leica M9 with 35mm Summilux Asph at F2.8, ISO200

A kid hides behind his umbrella at the entrance of Les Halles. (click on picture to enlarge)

Leica M9 with 35mm Summilux Asph at F1.4, 1/125, ISO800

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

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

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)

Are you odds to win better when you play chess against the invisble ?  (click on picture to enlarge)

Leica M9 with 35mm Summilux Asph at F1.4, 1/2000, ISO200

I wonder what is a stranger wine. Is it an alcohol for strange people or for visitors from abroad ? Perhaps some wines are stranger than others ? In the end, it must probably be a wine that is not French. That would be strange though, indeed who drinks foreign wines in France anyways … (click on picture to enlarge)

Leica M9 with 75mm Summicron at F2, 1/1000, ISO200

Between dreams of escape and of glamourous love, flows the daily routine of Parisians.  (click on picture to enlarge)

Sigma DP2 at F7.1, 1/80, ISO100

On the glamourous Champs-Elysées, cowboys look sometimes like an anomaly . The models and superstars are there to defend their territory, so watch out.  (click on picture to enlarge)

Leica M9 with 60mm Hexanon at F2.8, 1/500, ISO 200

A man looks at an hiring ad by a large department store. Thinking about a new job, or maybe a new wife ? (click on picture to enlarge)

Leica M9 with 35mm Summilux Asph at F2, 1/350, ISO200

On Rivoli street, shadows err under the heavy sun of a hot summer day. When one has the attitude, even her shadow shows.  (click on picture to enlarge)Leica M9 with 21mm Voigtlander at F5.6, 1/1000, ISO200 (cropped)

Reflections, trompe l’oeil ? Let’s see if one of you can explain the action and setting in this picture, so take a guess …. (click on picture to enlarge)

Leica M9 with 35mm Summilux Asph at F4, 1/250, ISO160

Kids always will prefer to go run around then listen to a teacher.  (click on picture to enlarge)

Leica M9 with 35mm Summilux Asph at F1.4, 1/1500, ISO80

« Pièce unique » in French can be more or less translated in three different ways :  one coin, special play or unique collector item. So which one best matches this scene ? Or maybe the three apply … (click on picture to enlarge)

Leica M9 with 60mm Hexanon at F2.8, 1/500, ISO160

A naked woman in a 2CV … (click on picture to enlarge)

Leica M9 with 50mm Summicron at F8, 1/350, ISO640

Imagine you are suddenly catapulted in another world. Then you open your eyes. Where are you ? Paris, Cairo, Rome, or Vegas ? (click on picture to enlarge)

Leica M9 with 35mm Summilux Asph at F2.8, 1/350, ISO160

… in the heart of many Parisians apparently. (click on picture to enlarge)

Leica M9 with 60mm Summilux at F4.0, 1/180, ISO400