Église Saint-Eustache - les chaises

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNNDxFgK3D9vXIlekHALihaPYKmnBa43-aS2N3AQGJ_EnIobG-tlHZhH6HQS6eHXiWNl_RK5T1YbjoLdryRvfpl24V9iEr7AXYUefkEjg76TPHUqodPBH3Bgn9Y2QBB3SNLI16JNCut0w/s1600/2010+Dec+3+DSC_0238.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="490" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNNDxFgK3D9vXIlekHALihaPYKmnBa43-aS2N3AQGJ_EnIobG-tlHZhH6HQS6eHXiWNl_RK5T1YbjoLdryRvfpl24V9iEr7AXYUefkEjg76TPHUqodPBH3Bgn9Y2QBB3SNLI16JNCut0w/s640/2010+Dec+3+DSC_0238.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Église Saint-Eustache</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;">Long shadows in this enormous church...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">simple chairs are dwarfed in the cavernous nave</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 dimanche</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;"><br />Église Saint-Eustache<br />2, impasse Saint-Eustache</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;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></i></div>

Église Saint-Eustache - les chaises

Église Saint-Eustache Long shadows in this enormous church... simple chairs are dwarfed in the cavernous nave bon dimanche Église Saint-Eust...

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Passy - art et les ombres

<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/90442945@N06/9032684933/" title="2013 0522 Wed_99DSC_5709 by Genie Paris, on Flickr"><img alt="2013 0522 Wed_99DSC_5709" height="800" src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5491/9032684933_b9fb57a519_c.jpg" width="530" /></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;">Art and the shadows</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 seemed that the sun appeared at just the right moment </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">to capture this shot.</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;">Rue Paul Doumer</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">75016, Paris</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>

Passy - art et les ombres

Art and the shadows It seemed that the sun appeared at just the right moment  to capture this shot. bon weekend Rue Paul Doumer 75016, Paris

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Musée du Louvre - Mercure et son ombre

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBTLtnGU_mNyrEf3pBfPdZI_7o6s8BlZ1qapQAjwPZDSwdfr6mnHLikYlplIgGXwf8NSsEWs-ewex5W9q9BGUZbOZp5twPbVe4W2e8trkq_oj6Eetd-pF9GhwzIrCGI4fBU1taQsL7uj0/s1600/2012+Mar+30+Paris_142DSC_5090.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBTLtnGU_mNyrEf3pBfPdZI_7o6s8BlZ1qapQAjwPZDSwdfr6mnHLikYlplIgGXwf8NSsEWs-ewex5W9q9BGUZbOZp5twPbVe4W2e8trkq_oj6Eetd-pF9GhwzIrCGI4fBU1taQsL7uj0/s640/2012+Mar+30+Paris_142DSC_5090.jpg" width="422" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Mercury </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;">This bronze of Mercury is seen in an arabesque pose, balanced it would appear, on the head of Zephyr.  He is poised on a gust of air coming from the mouth of this god of the east wind.</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;">My search of the internet has not told me for certain the name of the sculptor... any help?  There is one by Giambologna, a Flemish artist, but that bronze is in Florence at the National Museum of the Bargello.</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;">Mercury in this pose of flight is recognized often as the emblem of FTD Florist.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></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: left;"><br /></div>

Musée du Louvre - Mercure et son ombre

Mercury  This bronze of Mercury is seen in an arabesque pose, balanced it would appear, on the head of Zephyr.  He is poised on a gust of ai...

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Palais Royal - Galerie de Beaujolais

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAMglZ85c6bTFyI9rSfol1MYtIkExHNaasqg9Zz9D-ujmQqjz8u0XyQ5Rd3vlTFlEoMGbmFB-Uq6Zu753A550WPedI_H5KlAU6r4i4nteArRpG1I4UjjLKNs5zxpLpb7ofcSV6HB8Mkd4/s1600/2012+jan+11++1st_0099.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAMglZ85c6bTFyI9rSfol1MYtIkExHNaasqg9Zz9D-ujmQqjz8u0XyQ5Rd3vlTFlEoMGbmFB-Uq6Zu753A550WPedI_H5KlAU6r4i4nteArRpG1I4UjjLKNs5zxpLpb7ofcSV6HB8Mkd4/s640/2012+jan+11++1st_0099.jpg" uda="true" width="424" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The late afternoon sun made for long shadows and soft colors in the Galerie de Beaujolais at Palais Royal.  I imagined that I could almost see the gold fence spires in the shadows.  You can see one actual spire in the open gate on the left.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I could spend hours here just watching the light change.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>Galerie de Beaujolais</em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>Palais Royal</em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>75001 Paris</em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div>

Palais Royal - Galerie de Beaujolais

The late afternoon sun made for long shadows and soft colors in the Galerie de Beaujolais at Palais Royal.  I imagined that I could almost s...

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Il fait de l'ombre

<div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2lFFov_tEohNVR4ltRSov0b3TPjKJBduvs1rKvAAsjnNfBLlj995BB22nYqGTXAJNXzUh8SSRY15DQIW7J8AojRWNwdkHXh_SvCXNg8nVg7hM-zNJxLlHE7TQFLuOoMVKhcbVnkpJAYE/s1600/2011+april+6+DSC_0206.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5621402980608463634" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2lFFov_tEohNVR4ltRSov0b3TPjKJBduvs1rKvAAsjnNfBLlj995BB22nYqGTXAJNXzUh8SSRY15DQIW7J8AojRWNwdkHXh_SvCXNg8nVg7hM-zNJxLlHE7TQFLuOoMVKhcbVnkpJAYE/s640/2011+april+6+DSC_0206.jpg" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; DISPLAY: block; CURSOR: hand" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;">A bit of mystery for lundi... who is this shadow blocking the sun?<br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><div align="left"></div><br />Hôtel du Nord<br />102, quai de Jemmapes</div><br /><div align="left"></div>

Il fait de l'ombre

A bit of mystery for lundi... who is this shadow blocking the sun? Hôtel du Nord 102, quai de Jemmapes

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