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Paris Cemeteries
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Cemeteries are for the living. And Paris cemeteries are for photographers. My favorite is Père Lachaise, a 110-acre park located in the 20th arrondissement. Its rolling terrain is filled with 70,000 burial plots, holding the famous and not-so-famous.
The Eiffel Tower
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Let me riff for a moment as a photographer. To photograph the Eiffel Tower or not to, that is the question. I have moved 180 degrees on that issue.
A New York State of Mind
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Some odds and ends from last weekend's trip to New York City. "Odds and ends, odds and ends.
Lost time is not found again" Bob Dylan
Erasmus Bridge Spanning the Nieuwe Maas
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I am in a modern hotel room on the 23rd floor (top) of the Nhow Hotel that occupies one of the three buildings comprising the Rem Koolhass' Rotterdam complex. We overlook the Erasmus bridge in this thoroughly modern city. The bridge, designed by Ben van Berkel, was completed in 1996. Known as the "Swan," it is a cable-style bridge, with an asymmetric blue pylon anchoring the cables. A tram line runs down the center of the bridge, with automobile and bicycle traffic also supported.
Contemplating
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A bicyclist ends the day watching the river flow from the boardwalk running along the Potomac River in Georgetown. Rosslyn, Virginia is lit by the setting sun. It doesn't get much better than this.
Jon
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I headed to Milwaukee to spend time with Jon during his annual trip home. Since his twin sister Pam was casting about in northern Wisconsin, we decided to meet at the Milwaukee Art Museum on a lovely summer day. We spent little time in the galleries, but walked the grounds and then to Harbor House for a 3-hour lunch (no martinis).
120mm
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Two days in New York, and one 120mm lens. That was the right lens this past weekend. Although there were short spells of blue skies, for the most part, the sky was white or middle gray. None of my landscape shots worked, which I knew would be the case, but when I am there, I gotta try anyway. Close ups were the order of the day.