La Tour Eiffel (The Eiffel Tower) From One Window (View One)

This is the first of several photos in a new series showing Le Tour

Eiffel (The Eiffel Tower) as it appeared to me through a single

window at various times in Paris, recently. If you rate harshly or

very critically, please submit a helpful and constructive

comment/Please share your superior knowledge to help improve my

photography (and when the rest are uploaded, be sure to compare ALL

the various views). Thanks! Enjoy! John

I like it, did you done the fog effect on the top of the tower or it was naturaly like this? Best regards!

The foreground is a mess and seeing the tower cut off is unnerving.

I don't use 'effects' from Photoshop or any plug-ins at all. I don't even know how to use them.

 

I just know how to 'see' something and press the shutter, and have no fear in shooting at dusk, night, in total darkness (or near total darkness) and in other strange times.

 

I'm glad you like it.

 

Look for more photos from the same window (and there's another one in my color -- single photo folder.

 

; - ))

 

John

Anyone can take a cliche.

 

And if the foreground is a 'mess', that's the way I saw it. More of the same to come and you may want to look at those; maybe they'll grow on you (like toenail fungus?)

 

In any case, I suggest if you don't like the top being cut off, you definitely avoid Paris in the winter months as very often one cannot see the top of the Eiffel Tower at night or even in daytime. Paris, like the rest of Europe, suffers from overcast much of the winter, and rain makes it worse.

 

This is a Parisian's view of the Eiffel Tower --- definitely NOT a cliche or for a postcard. Anyone can go to Champs de Mars on a sunny summer day and take a postcard photo.

 

John (Crosley)

Viewers, I'll bet a box of chocolate that nobody in Photo.net can find this window.

 

So, a box of finest chocolates to anybody who can find this window (it's quasi-public and distinctive) identify it, let me know, and give me their address. I'll ship them prepaid a box of finest chocolates.

 

I bet I never have to pay.

 

Any takers?

 

John (Crosley)

Nice one John, I don't know at all Paris (although I'm french) but I find this 'busy' foreground interesting. Gives to me a good idea of what can be the view of this city from some roofs windows. I nevertheless prefer to see trees from my roof ; )

Moreover, the fog made me immediatly thinking about a photo of la Tour Eiffel taken during its making. And as well for that it's a great shot for me.

Well, I tried to find the rest of the series in your gallery but couldn't. I don't think it is harsh to say that this picture is way, way below the standard of the rest of your work, most of which I like a lot.

I took a chance on gender . . . and got it wrong, but I'll fix it where I can.

 

La Tour topless . . . how appropriate . . . and to think a guy, Mercier, thought he was going to astonish the Parisians by taking a huge oxcart laden with a world's record amount of champagne, and be the star of the exhibition, but Gustav Eiffel stole the show . . . and the world's heart.

 

Even though champagne is quintesentially top-notch French high life . . . but very few Americans have ever heard of Mercier brand (the Brits know, however).

 

La Tour topless, Folies Bergere topless, Moulin Rouge topless, long before Las Vegas ever was more than a desert crossroads with newfangled refrigerated air which attracted Benny 'Bugsy' Siegel.

 

Who knew Gustav's 'folly' as it was then ridiculed would become so emblematic.

 

Thanks Yann.

 

John (Crosley)

The rest of the photos will be uploaded over time, same window, same foreground -- each one entirely different.

 

Sorry to dissapoint, but this is a series . . . maybe something will disappoint more ;-)

 

I keep trying new things and not all will be to everyone's taste -- so bear with me.

 

John

Out of the three I prefer this one. Lived in Paris for 4+ years (and actually went around on a bicycle).

This photo didn't do well by raters, but the purpose of this exercise was to depict the Eiffel Tower in its various manifestations, not just as a beauty, but as a part of la vie Parisienne, and an everchanging symbol of Paris with moods, maybe something like a woman (it is feminine after all . . . )

 

Admittedly a rootop view in black and white through fog with the top cut off may be less than a summertime view as seen from the top of Montmartre or from Champ du Mars (de?) but it's as many Parisiennes see it.

 

And, of course, your opinion adds weight to that.

 

Thanks for weighing in. It heartens me in this process and lessens the effect of ratings; it makes the whole process seem worthwhile.

 

John (Crosley)