Today’s photo challenge is “half and half” so I chose a few pictures cut in the middle. I was spoiled for choice today. Above is a shop keeper having a smoke at her door-step.
Berlin steps, outside the Bundestag building.
Olafur Eliasson’s installation at the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris.
Reflection of a street off the rooftop of a parked car in Prague.
The encounter of two groups of horsemen on “Sword Beach” in Normandy.
I'm a photographer and watercolourist. I have practiced photography since childhood and digital photography since 1995. I turned it into my main occupation in 2021. I own a photo studio in Paris, France.
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Je suis photographe et aquarelliste. Je pratique la photographie depuis l'enfance et la photographie numérique depuis 1995. J'en ai fait mon activité principale en 2021. Je possède un studio photo dans le 15e arrondissement de Paris
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Je suis photographe et aquarelliste. Je pratique la photographie depuis l'enfance et la photographie numérique depuis 1995. J'en ai fait mon activité principale en 2021. Je possède un studio photo dans le 15e arrondissement de Paris
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nicely done!
Thanks David. You are one of my most faithful readers. Thank you so much 🙂
Love your photo choices and composition for this week’s challenge.
Very kind thank you 🙂
What an eye you have! These are amazing. I especially like the inconnu shopkeeper with the red coat. For some reason, the lighter foreground in the Sword Beach photo seems to help the picture be even better.
I see that horseback riding is popular on Sword Beach, not just sulky driving.
Thank you so much Beth. As it happens. I shot this picture the day after I saw that film on Vivian Maier http://www.vivianmaier.com/film-finding-vivian-maier/ I took my camera with me and went around the area for a stroll. As I was approaching St Georges, I saw that shop keeper. She didn’t spot me and I had time to aim. It only lasted a split second I think and she never noticed me.
It takes a keen eye to spot those moments before they vanish. I so appreciate the link – her story is right up my alley. I worked many years in psychiatry and find eccentricity fascinating. It’s impressive that she was able to find a way to keep herself afloat financially despite having such idiosyncratic ways. The world was different then and nowadays she may have had a much more difficult time insisting on her privacy.
This is one of the best things about blogging – people share these things that I would have been aware of. I’m making my way through what’s on YouTube about her and will try to find the full-lenght doccumentary somewhere. I’m so glad you mentioned this!
Thanks Beth. I definitely recommend you go and see the film, or buy it from whatever VOD service is at hand.