Where is the love?

Look up every once in a while. You never know what you might be missing. 

Because, let’s be honest, your feet are pretty dull. 

Bonjour Mon Ami

Yes as correctly guessed by Print and Pattern I am in Paris, or to be precise I am on the Eurostar back to Blighty. As avid readers of this blog will know going to Paris is on my bucket list and this week I have finally been able to tick it off.

Quite simply the place is a photographers haven, with every street and every building oozing with such beauty. The sights that define the city are of course photographic but away from the hustle and bustle (and the tour groups) is where the city really shows her beauty.

There are of course negative points I have come away with. The tour groups that clog the city is sadly something that takes away from it’s charm. The best example was in the Louvre. A place full to bursting with the world’s finest art and yet tour groups (as well as others) focus purely on the one piece, the Mona Lisa. Don’t get me wrong she is beautiful but as the photograph shows people dont go there bask in her beauty or appreciate the artist. It is simply to show that they were there. I know as a photographer that may sound hypocritical but I don’t photograph paintings I put the camera away (for once) and view the art as it was intended, not through a lens.

Grumbling aside, I loved Paris. It is a city of love and I have fallen for her.

The way she makes coffee, her effortless style, the way she looks as the sun sets and rises, her culture, her intellect.

Everyday she became more and more impossibly stunning.

So over the next few weeks I will be posting a variety of Parisian photographs from all over the stunning city. Because you cannot capture such vast allure in one photograph so a collage will have to do.

Competition: can you guess where I am…?

This is definitely a trick question.

First person to give me the exact place, not just the city it’s in, will get a mention in my next blog.

My Mind Actually in the Clouds

For my more regular readers you will understand the title of this entry. For those who are new to my random ramblings then see the freshly pressed prequel here.

Although it wasn’t heading to India a bit of travel is always good for the soul.

(p.s. those are clouds not hills as a lot of my readers have been saying!)