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Friday, December 29, 2023

S'embrasser sous le gui ? (Weekend Street/Reflections # 153)

 

Lyon, France

I hope you all had a merry Christmas and are enjoying the holidays.

                             Happy New Year/Bonne Année !

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Friday, December 22, 2023

Fluctuat nec Mergitur (Weekend Street/Reflections # 152)

Paris, France                          Pre-scheduled post
 

                                              Merry Christmas!

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Friday, December 15, 2023

La Ville des Lumières (Weekend Street/Reflections # 151)

 

Lyon, France                             Pre-scheduled post                                    

I'll be away this week and next, but I look forward to catching up with your posts and comments when I return.

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Friday, December 8, 2023

Mysterious Venice (Weekend Street/Reflections # 150)

 

Venice, Italy

Venice has an air of mystery when the sun sets and the fog rolls in. 

I'll be away until the end of the month but I've pre-scheduled the Street/Reflections posts. Have fun!

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Friday, December 1, 2023

Frères siamois ? (Weekend Street/Reflections # 149)

 

Lyon, France

He was trying to walk as close as possible to the window to avoid the rain. I'm not sure if it helped, but it did make a nice street/reflection.😎

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Friday, November 24, 2023

"Je vivais heureux" (Weekend Street/Reflections # 148)


 Lyon, France

"Auprès de mon arbre, 

Je vivais heureux, 

J'aurais jamais dû m'éloigner de mon arbre... 

Auprès de mon arbre, 

Je vivais heureux, 

J'aurais jamais dû le quitter des yeux.." - Georges Brassens

                       A belated Happy Thanksgiving!

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Friday, November 17, 2023

Place Juliette Gréco (Weekend Street/Reflections # 147)

 

Paris, France                                 Mots croisés au parc

A woman doing crossword puzzles in a little park. It's a good way to keep your mind sharp. I should do a few of them because my mind has become very dull recently.😲

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Friday, November 10, 2023

Suivez le guide (Weekend Street/Reflections # 146)


 Paris, France

The man in front had an interesting style and perhaps an even more interesting gait. I think a video would have captured it better. 😀                                     
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Friday, November 3, 2023

Image à la sauvette (Weekend Street/Reflections #145)

 

Paris, France

When I take street pictures, I usually try to anticipate what's going to happen next. Watching all the moving pieces in relation to stationary objects.  Always hoping for the right things to fall in place in order to make an interesting photo. 

On this day I was walking near Galeries Lafayette when I noticed a group of people crossing the street from my left and a truck coming from the opposite direction. The green-haired woman caught my eye and so did the caption on the side of the truck that said "C'est bon de se mettre au vert" (It's good to go green). I remember thinking <I wish I had enough time to take off the lens cap and snap a picture at the precise moment the caption was above her head.>

But it all took place in just a few seconds.

After wasting time thinking about it I took the shoot a split second too late, but thankfully all the elements were still in the frame. Later when I looked at the photo I realized I had two chances to get the shot I wanted. "Green is the new black" would have worked too. 😀

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Friday, October 27, 2023

Dans le Marais (Weekend Street/Reflections # 144)

 

Paris, France

It's been a while since I've posted a reflection, so here's a street reflection.😉
I'd probably be a nervous wreck walking a puppy without a leash in a big city.   
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Friday, October 20, 2023

Pigeons (Weekend Street/Street Reflections # 143)


 Venice, Italy

Old people feed them, kids chase them and I try to avoid them. 😏

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Friday, October 13, 2023

Naked in New Hope (Weekend Street/Reflections # 142)

 

New Hope, Pennsylvania

Naked in New Hope was an annual exhibit of nudes at Sidetracks Art Gallery. This is a picture of one of the gallery owners several years before it permanently closed its doors in 2020. I asked him why he was wearing clothes and he started to explain but quickly figured out that I was kidding. 😉

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Friday, October 6, 2023

Waiting for a hamburger (Weekend Street/Reflections # 141)

 

San Diego, California

I could almost hear him say "I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today". 😉


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Friday, September 29, 2023

Une vitrine pas comme les autres (Weekend Street/Reflections #140)

 

Paris, France

I've seen lots of interesting window displays during the Christmas season, but this was one of the most unusual.  Or so I thought until I realized he was a worker cleaning off the 2014 display to prepare for the approaching new year.

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Friday, September 22, 2023

The Happy Rooster (Weekend Street/Reflections # 139)

 

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

I just realized that I did the first Weekend Reflections post on September 25, 2009 (14 years ago). Coincidentally, the first Weekend Reflections picture was also taken in Philadelphia. It's been fun seeing your reflections and street photos over the years. Thanks!

 Can you remember where you were and what you were doing at the end of September 2009?

I was living in Newtown, Pennsylvania, and planning a trip to Munich and Salzburg. 

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Friday, September 15, 2023

Food cart noir (Weekend Street/Reflections # 138)

 

New York City

Two guys getting a late-night snack in NYC.  The guy on the right reminded me of Robert Mitchum, circa 1940s. If only he were a little taller and wearing a suit and a fedora. 😊

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Friday, September 8, 2023

Taking a break (Weekend Street/Reflections # 137)


 Newport Beach, California

One night while walking around the fun zone I "spied" a cook taking a break at the Harborside restaurant in the Balboa Pavillion. I took the shot through a circular feature on a metal fence. It kind of looks like the view from a spyglass, which fits the nautical theme of the area.

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Friday, September 1, 2023

Just a man and his unicorns (Weekend Street/Reflections # 136)


 Costa Mesa, California

This reminds me of a saying I saw on a T-shirt "Being a person is getting too complicated. Time to be a unicorn."😄

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Friday, August 25, 2023

Another night in Venice (Weekend Street/Reflections # 135)


 Venice, Italy

The mysteries of Venice continue. 😎

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Friday, August 18, 2023

Venice at night (Weekend Street/Reflections # 134)


 Venice, Italy

There are so many interesting and mysterious places to explore in Venice, especially at night.

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Friday, August 11, 2023

A late day conversation (Weekend Street/Reflections # 133)

 

Venice, Italy

The last rays of the winter sun illuminated these men as they talked at the end of a corridor at Ca' Rezzonico (the palazzo/art museum in Sestiere Dorsoduro).

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Friday, August 4, 2023

Secret Agent Man (Weekend Street/Reflections #132)

 

Florence, Italy

I'm not sure why but this guy reminded me of the old song by Johnny Rivers called Secret Agent Man.😄

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Friday, July 28, 2023

Neorealismo (Weekend Street/Reflections # 131)


 Florence, Italy

The pouring rain didn't stop this guy.

For a moment it felt like I was transported into an old Italian neorealism film.

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Friday, July 21, 2023

Le pettegole (Weekend Street/Reflections # 130)


 Venice, Italy

I couldn't understand what they were saying but it seemed like gossip. Maybe it was their body language or maybe because they looked around and then lowered their voices as they talked. In any case, it reminded me of the title of a painting from the 19th-century Venetian artist Luigi Pastega "Le Pettegole" (in English The Gossips, ou Les Potins en francais).

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Friday, July 14, 2023

Trois enfants se cachent derrière le drapeau Français. (Weekend Street/Reflections # 129)

 

Valley Forge, Pennsylvania   (16 July 2016, two days after the terrorist attack in Nice.)

Some information on an interesting French fellow who came to the U. S. to fight with George Washington in The Revolutionary War:

"The Marquis de Lafayette, who joined the Continental Army at age nineteen in the summer of 1777 as a volunteer Major General, spent most of December 1777 and January 1778 with George Washington and his Continental Army troops at their winter quarters at Valley Forge. During that long, harsh winter, the ill-equipped Americans suffered in many ways. Some went barefoot. Many did not have blankets to sleep under. Food was sometimes scarce and sufficient supplies rarely made it to the camp. Hundreds died after suffering from diseases such as influenza, typhus, typhoid fever, and dysentery.

Lafayette experienced his first action at the Battle of Brandywine on September 11, 1777, where he showed extreme courage under fire in leading an orderly retreat. The Frenchman was shot through the calf during the battle. After he recovered, Lafayette was given command of a division of troops.

At Valley Forge, Lafayette basked in his elevation to the post of commander of a division of troops. Lafayette freely spent his own money to buy uniforms and muskets for his men—and lived among them during the coldest part of the winter. And despite pleas from his young wife and her family to return to France, Lafayette remained committed to the American cause as well as to the man he would come to consider his all-but-adopted father, George Washington. Lafayette demonstrated his unwavering loyalty to Washington during the Valley Forge encampment by helping Washington face down the so-called Conway Cabal, a never-hatched military-political plot aimed at forcing Washington to give up command of the Continental Army." - The George Washington Presidential Library


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Friday, July 7, 2023

Tourists at night (Weekend Street/Reflections # 128)

 

Florence, Italy

There are so many amazing things to see in Florence. This couple is sitting beneath the Column of Justice in the Piazza di Santa Trinita. I'm pretty sure the man was looking at the Basilica di Santa Trinita. 

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Friday, June 30, 2023

Au milieu des pigeons (Weekend Street/Reflections # 127)

 

Paris, France

It was a cold day in March 2013 near L'Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel. 


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Friday, June 23, 2023

Strange Encounters (Weekend Street/Reflections # 126)

 

Florence, Italy

The woman seemed like the least interesting of the three but she managed to capture their attention.

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Friday, June 16, 2023

Playing for a small audience (Weekend Street/Reflections # 125)

 

Florence, Italy

At least the mannequin and statues make the crowd seem larger.😀

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