Open field / Kessler's Mountain / Fujifilm X-T1 / Samyang F2.0 12mm

After this morning's dog walk I was taken by the scene behind our neighbor's house which is currently for sale.

 

Rio Grande Canyon from atop the bridge just outside Taos

Ridin' the Rio Grande Canyon Bridge

Louvre / Below Ground

Everybody has a cell phone which means everybody has a camera which means everybody takes photographs. Cool... especially when there's something to photograph. Photographing yourself with a stick with a landmark in the background and uploading to social media is sorta half cool. Me photographing them photographing themselves and then uploading to a blog is probably only quarter cool. But hey, they were caught in the scene, which in Paris, is inevitable.

 

Paris fast food & fashion

There are hundreds and hundreds of places to get something to eat in/on the Isle de France, not to be confused with the Isle de Citie. A few of those places are American fast food. McDonald's seems to have the most and no I didn't eat in any of them. I did go into one in Oberkampf to check it out. You order and pay at a kiosk and then pick up your order at the counter, so I couldn't just walk up to somebody and say "Un Royale with cheese (avec fromage?) ala Sam Jackson, so what's the point? The menu is not identical to the states, no big surprise. I shot a lot and although all generalizations are false, I 'd have to say Parisiens (large metropolitan areas in general, eh?) seem to care more about their style and appearance and work at looking chic. They also want tasty food and work hard at getting it right and consuming it with style. Which is why McDonald's is something of an outlier. Anyway here's a couple shots of the interior of Mickey D's and a gal getting what looked like some kind of ice cream confection which I would take to be a McFlurry of some kind but who knows? She was tres chic.

 

Buy mini-Eiffel tower or get your picture drawn / Paris / Louvre gardens area

You can't get far around the Eiffel Tower or the Louvre without being offered a metal replica of the Eiffel Tower in various sizes, the largest of which is quite a weapon. The fellows making the offerings are uniformly African. Falling on one of these could be fatal. Hand drawn portraits are also common.

 

Paris Metro / Bir Hakeim Station candids