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On The Road After Dark – Dextrous – Paris, Christmas 2018

by WaterGirl|  August 31, 202010:00 pm| 23 Comments

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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.

On The Road After Dark - Dextrous - Paris, Christmas 2018 4
Near Galeries LafayetteDecember 21, 2018

The holiday lighting was only white lights.

On The Road After Dark - Dextrous - Paris, Christmas 2018 2
Sainte-ChappelleDecember 21, 2018

It felt like walking into a jewel box.

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Palais de JustoceDecember 21, 2018

with Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite set in stone.

On The Road After Dark - Dextrous - Paris, Christmas 2018 1
Clock at Musee d'OrsayDecember 21, 2018

Louvre seen through the clock

On The Road After Dark - Dextrous - Paris, Christmas 2018
SeineDecember 21, 2018

At night with the moon behind scudding clouds.

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23Comments

  1. 1.

    WaterGirl

    August 31, 2020 at 10:04 pm

    Love, love, love that last photo so much.  So beautiful.

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    There go two miscreants

    August 31, 2020 at 10:05 pm

    That last one is terrific! A great shot. I like the way the clouds “echo” the ripples in the water.

  3. 3.

    Lapassionara

    August 31, 2020 at 10:10 pm

    Many thanks for sharing these. Paris is so beautiful, and these are wonderful photos.

  4. 4.

    Wag

    August 31, 2020 at 10:14 pm

    Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite Forever. Maybe after the election we will have another leader who believes in those words.

    Great photos.

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    Miss Bianca

    August 31, 2020 at 10:20 pm

    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!

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    opiejeanne

    August 31, 2020 at 10:21 pm

    Paris is so beautiful! Thank you for sharing these with us, you have a good eye.

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    CaseyL

    August 31, 2020 at 10:29 pm

    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!

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    Benw

    August 31, 2020 at 10:31 pm

    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!

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    WaterGirl

    August 31, 2020 at 10:37 pm

    Dextrous, no more lurking!  :-)

  10. 10.

    Auntie Anne

    August 31, 2020 at 10:42 pm

    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.

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    Elizabelle

    August 31, 2020 at 10:43 pm

    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.

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    stinger

    August 31, 2020 at 10:55 pm

    How beautiful. Thanks for sharing these.

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    Barbara

    August 31, 2020 at 11:01 pm

    Gorgeous.  These pictures never disappoint, never get old. Love seeing Paris through the eyes of others.

  14. 14.

    Tehanu

    August 31, 2020 at 11:03 pm

    I have many happy memories of Paris but no photos as good as these.  Thanks!

  15. 15.

    KSinMA

    August 31, 2020 at 11:07 pm

    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.

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    Yutsano

    August 31, 2020 at 11:16 pm

    You have furthered my resolve to spend Christmas in Europe at least once.

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    Mary G

    August 31, 2020 at 11:17 pm

    Lovely, please send more, as we need more beauty right now.

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    randy khan

    August 31, 2020 at 11:23 pm

    I will never get tired of Ste. Chappelle.  Or of photos of it.

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    rikyrah

    September 1, 2020 at 12:40 am

    Beautiful???

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    way2blue

    September 1, 2020 at 12:47 am

    Love the clock photo.  Your photos remind me how fun t’would be to live in Paris for a month or two…

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    donatellonerd

    September 1, 2020 at 1:27 am

    lovely, especially the first and last photos.

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    J R in WV

    September 1, 2020 at 2:54 am

    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.

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    Comrade Colette Collaboratrice

    September 1, 2020 at 4:39 am

    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.

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