Reclaming our space. Picture: Fujifilm XPro3 – 35 mm f1.4
Category Archives: Paris
Breathing
Curfew, cold days, snow, rain, flooding: all this seems, for a day, a memory. The weekend brought nice weather, but also showed the extreme need of taking off our masks, look at each other and smile. Breathing. Picture: Fuji X-Pro3 – 23mm f/2.0
4.35 m
Paris’ Seine River has flooded and risen, not at the level of 2016 (6.10m), but still at significant level (4.35m last Monday). Reduced perspectives. New lines. The tide came up as the sun went down, And the river was full to its very brim, And a little boat crept up to the town On theContinue reading “4.35 m”
Still closed
Unimaginable: a city like Paris, which makes of café, bar, bistro and restaurants one of its main identities, doesn’t seem to see light of opening. Still closed. Picture: Fujifilm X-Pro3 – Minolta Rokkor 50mm f.1.7
Line them up
I like the home atmosphere waiting for Christmas. Today marks a new form of lockdown, with curfew at 20:00. Paris should be empty, now, but home is warm alternative to any outdoor city location. Picture: Konica Hexar AF – Ilford XP2
Goodluck
Touched about this man, who took a moment alone on the street chasing the chance to win a small lottery card. Picture: Fuji X-Pro3 – Helios 44-2 58mm
To a child dancing in the wind
I Dance there upon the shore; what need have you to care for wind or water’s roar? And tumble out your hair that the salt drops have wet; being young you have not known the fool’s triumph, nor yet love lost as soon as won, nor the best labourer dead and all the sheaves toContinue reading “To a child dancing in the wind”
That little sound
I needed to take back to the office a trolley which I have at home since lockdown started. I walked, as often I do, to get to work. Ahh…. That little ‘unusual’ sound of the small wheels rolling on the ground, the bar to adjust, the inclination of the luggage to get through obstacles….everything soundedContinue reading “That little sound”
