Pyramide du Louvre - City Daily Photo Theme Day: triangles

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-s0hnEH4Ol7PhVGPtksncAUq1hvo6cCXKturx27kLm0RcK2BXxbKPoC7Zq9Pruz49LqQsXgEDHc352dSgY-C3bYs01y8UJelvkPNfoRJK4PHUiIC3hMZCKqRbXosJpBzDHuE_Os2hHS8/s1600/2012+Mar+29+Paris_254DSC_4937.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="558" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-s0hnEH4Ol7PhVGPtksncAUq1hvo6cCXKturx27kLm0RcK2BXxbKPoC7Zq9Pruz49LqQsXgEDHc352dSgY-C3bYs01y8UJelvkPNfoRJK4PHUiIC3hMZCKqRbXosJpBzDHuE_Os2hHS8/s1600/2012+Mar+29+Paris_254DSC_4937.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Pyramide du Louvre</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">The first day of the month is Theme Day for the City Daily Photo community, and the theme for April is "triangles."  In Paris there are two obvious and very large architectural structures which would pass the test:  La Tour Eiffel and I M Pei's Pyramide du Louvre, seen here.  </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Taken in spring at dusk with the last glow of daylight, it takes on the watercolor hues of <i>l'heure bleue</i>.  The "blue hour" is a magical time of day when the softness of the fading light of day creates the colors only seen in artists' palettes and then dances across the Pyramide.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Pyramide du Louvre</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Musée du Louvre</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">75001, Paris</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>See "triangles" from <a href="http://cdpbthemeday.blogspot.com/2014/03/april-2014-gallery-triangles.html" target="_blank">cities around the world here</a></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>from my friends of CDP</i></div>

Pyramide du Louvre - City Daily Photo Theme Day: triangles

Pyramide du Louvre The first day of the month is Theme Day for the City Daily Photo community, and the theme for April is "triangles....

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L'heure bleue - musée du Louvre

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqlmhJo_X-In7Lwke0uzveFnj3Y62P0tVzCndp7fMdttkYMLfsycrKDVa-KrdMXKEHP5UyFrBNSf_s0zOYgr6UJh-r2x6saIO96tJdBbB-vqJkl-CP-_mzTYLAh_EFs8wN7TZa-eC-AuE/s1600/2012+Mar+29+Paris_254DSC_4937.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="492" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqlmhJo_X-In7Lwke0uzveFnj3Y62P0tVzCndp7fMdttkYMLfsycrKDVa-KrdMXKEHP5UyFrBNSf_s0zOYgr6UJh-r2x6saIO96tJdBbB-vqJkl-CP-_mzTYLAh_EFs8wN7TZa-eC-AuE/s640/2012+Mar+29+Paris_254DSC_4937.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">L'heure bleue</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">(The blue hour)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">It is a magical time in Paris when the sun goes down </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">and the sky becomes a palette of soft watercolors</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> in shades of blue and violet and pink.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">bon weekend</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Musée du Louvre, I M Pei's Pyramid</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">75001, Paris</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>

L'heure bleue - musée du Louvre

L'heure bleue (The blue hour) It is a magical time in Paris when the sun goes down  and the sky becomes a palette of soft watercolors  i...

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Louvre Pyramid and full moon

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPndHlsAEutukYuQbeyAOPLT7RDTFtj2JdkQByQ71rkvpgYQGfVbAsCpA2e6_ja00E_5_tVOlB5ejm1nCRcaY_43bH6IHgSdQbl4S7c67lDqMdvlthGnZvDNQaiLo0LRU89WO3uQpv1E0/s1600/2011+april+7+DSC_0541.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="514" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPndHlsAEutukYuQbeyAOPLT7RDTFtj2JdkQByQ71rkvpgYQGfVbAsCpA2e6_ja00E_5_tVOlB5ejm1nCRcaY_43bH6IHgSdQbl4S7c67lDqMdvlthGnZvDNQaiLo0LRU89WO3uQpv1E0/s640/2011+april+7+DSC_0541.jpg" width="640" xaa="true" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Through the glass and steel of I. M. Pei's Pyramid, is seen a full moon and Pavillon de l'Horloge, architecture from different centuries gracing the Napoleon Courtyard of the Louvre.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Bon weekend</span><br /><br />Louvre Pyramid<br />Cour Napoleon<br />75001, Paris<br /><br />See more reflections here at <a href="http://weekendreflection.blogspot.com/2011/09/hand-in-hand-on-sand-weekend.html">James' Weekend Reflections</a>

Louvre Pyramid and full moon

Through the glass and steel of I. M. Pei's Pyramid, is seen a full moon and Pavillon de l'Horloge, architecture from different centu...

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