Un bouledogue mignon (Weekend Street/Reflections # 293)

 Paris, France

I can't believe it's already September. Our summer was relatively mild, but I’m still counting down the days to long-sleeve weather. If I'm this ready for autumn, I can only imagine how deeply a cool breeze will be celebrated in Paris.

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Paris after dark (Weekend Street/Reflections #280)

 Paris, France

Wet streets, glowing lamps, and the quiet rhythm of bikes cutting through the night. Pure City of Light magic.

Would you hop on a bike and ride through Paris on a night like this?😜

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Proches, mais des mondes à part (Weekend Street/Reflections #275)

 Paris, France

Two scenes unfold mere feet apart, yet entirely separate. On one side, a lone man stands in quiet solitude, lost in his own thoughts. Just around the corner, a couple lingers at the warmly lit entrance of a Japanese ramen shop, trying to make an important decision.

Though their paths nearly cross, they remain unaware of each other’s existence. Each is absorbed in a private world. In the same physical space, parallel realities play out, one defined by solitude, the other by companionship. 

In the end, the couple stepped inside the restaurant, the man turned and walked away into the night, and I remained the only witness to that brief, unspoken moment on the corner.

It’s May, a perfect time to revisit Chris Marker’s Le Joli Mai, a documentary that unfolds like a page from a nostalgic audio-visual diary of Paris.

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Chat-Montorgueil (Weekend Street/Reflections # 253)

 

Paris, France

Montorgueil sous la pluie, c’est un film à lui seul.

I tested out ChatGPT by asking it to improve the lighting and clarity of this photo. I think it worked well except for a couple of quirky things that I noticed.

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Une soirée en amoureux (Weekend Street/Reflections # 168)

Paris, France

After taking this picture I tried to figure out what Ventadour means. I think it's a reference to the 12th-century Occitan poet Troubadour Bernard de Ventadour.

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Un homme sirote un petit café en regardant le monde grouiller (Weekend/Street Reflections # 120)

 

    Paris, France                           (Le Café Dalayrac, 2010)

Le matin, c'est pour le café et la contemplation. (Mornings are for coffee and contemplation.)

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Les Copines (Weekend Street/Reflections #8)

 Paris, France

Friendship.

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La Tour Jean-Sans-Peur (Weekend Reflections # 386)

Paris, France                    (John the Fearless Tower)

 The tower, the sky and the other buildings were reflected in a shop window across the street (Rue Étienne Marcel). This one almost fooled me. I had to double check to make sure it was a reflection. :-)

By my standards all of the buildings in this reflection are old, but the tower in the middle is very old. It was built in the early 1400s.  I've walked passed it several times over the years but I haven't been inside.

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