Breach

L'Obelisque de la Place de la Concorde, Paris 8

Originally at the Louxor temple in Thebes, the obelisk was given to France by Egypt in 1831.

Readers

Public Library, Bonifacio

Stair-way

L’Escalier du Roy d’Aragon, Bonifacio

And now it's my turn to show you something else than Paris! This picture was taken in the south of Corsica. The stairs were digged directly into the cliff, probably in the 15th century.

Paris by night, one more

View from the Seine. The white light is coming from the Eiffel tower.

Supervisors

Statues above the Louvres supervising the tourists

Yellow light

A view of Notre Dame with the yellow trees in autumn

Famous shop

Bazar de l'hotel de ville by night

Louvre

This week is the week of changes.
Mélanie is going to present you pictures of the country on saturday and sunday, and I will show you some pictures of Paris from today to friday. I took this pictures a week ago when I visited the Louvre. I hope you will enjoy as you enjoy the Mélanie's photos of Paris. Have a good week.

Claire

Froggy or Cloudy

A cloud is coming from the other mountain...

St Julien des Points - 48 Lozère

Kaki

Kaki fruit

Paris by night

The wheel, the Concorde and the Eiffel Tower, Paris

Installations

People were still working on the installation of the big wheel at the Concorde yesterday evening, Paris 8

UFO at the Opera

Avenue de l'Opéra and the Opéra Garnier, Paris 2

Giant in glass

One of my company office building, MSH (place du Marché Saint-Honoré), Paris 2

And I did not notice, but yesterday was our 100st post! :)

Hide and seek

Le Louvre, Paris 1

Chambord stairs

This is a view of the famous stairs of the Chambord castle (with 2 "propellers", that is to say that you can go up and down from 2 sides on a same floor without being in the same propellers)

One other famous thing of Chambord is the number of chimney : 426...

I let you make some research about this famous castle, here for example :

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teau_de_Chambord (french)

or here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teau_de_Chambord (english)

Chambord castle

View of the Chambord's castle from the old stables.

Lesson on perspective

Place des Vosges, Paris 4

I *heart* rain

Paris under the rain, from the bus

Do you notice how the bus reflection forms an heart? I loved this!

Hotel de Sully

Garden from the Hotel de Sully, 62 rue Saint Antoine, Paris 4

Roman troups

Animation for Asterix birthday, Saint Germain des Prés, Paris 6

Paris is celebrating "Asterix" birthday with animations in different places, the Palais Royal, la Concorde, etc... If you don't know Asterix, order quickly one of the comic book, and you'll know more about French people! :-)

Angel

Garden of the Carnavalet Museum, Paris 3

Garden festival - Chaumont sur Loire castle

Every year, in the Garden of Chaumont sur Loire castle, a "Garden Festival" is organised and artists or designers propose their idea of a garden according to a theme (for this one, the theme was red).

Chaumont sur Loire Castle

Chaumont sur Loire is an other small town where a castle "Renaissance" is settled.

Alignement

Les Tuileries, la grande roue, la Concorde, les Champs Elysées, l'Arc de Triomphe, la Défense

Kind of chilly

Pigeon near the Seine, Paris 1

Sorry, I know that I promessed you pictures from Paris, and all you can see is the 1st arrondissement. I've got a sprained ankle (4 weeks now) and I can't go to take other pictures, so you've got to do with what I have under my eyes when I go to work... I hope I'll change that soon!

Surreal

Rue Alphard, Paris 13

This effect is called Orton effect. Click here to see how to obtain it with Photoshop

Rain

Reflection of a statue in the Tuileries in a rain puddle, Paris 1

Old

Passage du Bourg l'Abbé, Paris 2

And yes, it's time for me to be "old" too, I'm 28 now! :)

Chenonceaux #2

This is an external tower in front of the Chenonceaux castle

and ...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MELANIE !!

I wish you all the best !