On the Road is a weekday feature spotlighting reader photo submissions.
From the exotic to the familiar, whether you’re traveling or in your own backyard, we would love to see the world through your eyes.
Welcome, Dextrous. So glad you delurked! That last photo is simply enchanting. ~WaterGirl
Dextrous
Hi, I lurk and enjoy this board and thought I could contribute to this great series. This is from the first family vacation we took, 18 years after having kids.
Near Galeries LafayetteDecember 21, 2018
The holiday lighting was only white lights.
Sainte-ChappelleDecember 21, 2018
It felt like walking into a jewel box.
Palais de JustoceDecember 21, 2018
with Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite set in stone.
Clock at Musee d'OrsayDecember 21, 2018
Louvre seen through the clock
SeineDecember 21, 2018
At night with the moon behind scudding clouds.
WaterGirl
Love, love, love that last photo so much. So beautiful.
There go two miscreants
That last one is terrific! A great shot. I like the way the clouds “echo” the ripples in the water.
Lapassionara
Many thanks for sharing these. Paris is so beautiful, and these are wonderful photos.
Wag
Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite Forever. Maybe after the election we will have another leader who believes in those words.
Great photos.
Miss Bianca
Wow, cool. The only time I was ever in Paris was in December, as well – looks like you had some nicer weather than we did! I remember it being really grey and pissing down rain for the days that we were there, and we were so exhausted – it was the last stop on a three-month European tour – that all I really remember is the Louvre and Notre Dame, tho’ I am sure I have some old photos somewhere that might prove we went elsewhere!
opiejeanne
Paris is so beautiful! Thank you for sharing these with us, you have a good eye.
CaseyL
These are wonderful! You have a knack for composition – and for commentary. “Like walking into a jewel box” is exactly how I felt going into those glorious cathedrals!
Benw
Striking! You have a great eye.
As others have said, the last one is astonishing, especially the alien armada landing just to the right of the center of the image!
WaterGirl
Dextrous, no more lurking! :-)
Auntie Anne
I love these! The Palais de Justice, the clock, the Metro station, and yes, the last picture. Thank you so much! And I’m with WaterGirl – no more lurking because you have a great eye.
Elizabelle
Love those photos. City of lights, and moonlight.
You and Arrieve both seem to have taken the photo from behind the clock at the Musee d’Orsay.
stinger
How beautiful. Thanks for sharing these.
Barbara
Gorgeous. These pictures never disappoint, never get old. Love seeing Paris through the eyes of others.
Tehanu
I have many happy memories of Paris but no photos as good as these. Thanks!
KSinMA
Lovely pictures–thanks. My memory of the Palais de Justice (from a 3-day rushed tour): Early one morning, behind that enormous fence, we saw a woman barrister (?) in gown and periwig, pacing anxiously back and forth, smoking furiously, and studying what must have been a legal brief. I still think of her and wish her well.
Yutsano
You have furthered my resolve to spend Christmas in Europe at least once.
Mary G
Lovely, please send more, as we need more beauty right now.
randy khan
I will never get tired of Ste. Chappelle. Or of photos of it.
rikyrah
Beautiful???
way2blue
Love the clock photo. Your photos remind me how fun t’would be to live in Paris for a month or two…
donatellonerd
lovely, especially the first and last photos.
J R in WV
The last wonderful photo is like a painting by a famous impressionist. Night photos are so much a matter of luck, how the light plays in the scene.
Some cathedrals are like jewel boxes, we visited one in a smallish city in far NE Spain that was more like a box of glittery junk, the floor was filled with cages full of family altars with some family junk presented as great religious art. A cross between tacky hoarded family crap and christmas shopping in a really crowded store that will be gone, disappeared after Boxing Day.
So there is a ton of variation between hyper-successful cathedral development by gifted people and totally unsuccessful people who firmly believe they are gifted artistes and can select religious art that is great for the ages, but is in fact is crummy used junk store crafts-level scrap-book as art crap. And it doesn’t improve after 3 centuries of poor maintenance and botched “restoration” attempts to improve it somehow, anyways.
Then there is Notre Dame and the giant work of art pictured here… standing as counter examples…
Thanks for the photo set, congratulations of the achievement of fine art! Don’t be a stranger, I’m sure there are other great photos around you can submit, now that you know we will love them.
Comrade Colette Collaboratrice
Wonderful pix, and you have such an eye – thanks!
I continue to be amazed/amused/bemused by how closely the jackal paths cross. M. Colette and I were in Paris in November/December 2018 and have similar photos from visits to the same places. Paris is so lovely. I can’t wait to go back
ETA: but your photos are just better.