Life is tough for Parisians.

This was taken in the late afternoon over the Seine. Someone left a comment on Flickr that the one cloud in the middle there looks like the map of Great Britain.

Did you know the Eiffel Tower has somehow acquired the exclusive rights to own all photographs of the tower at night? If I were to try to sell this picture, I’d get in trouble unless I paid them… Actually, this one is at twilight, so I am not sure. But either way, it seems like a silly thing.

These are some of the tour boats that line up on the edge of the Seine early in the morning.

After emerging from the Parisian subway into the middle of a Hezbollah rally, I quickly made an egress (after snapping a few shots, of course), and found this really awesome fruit dessert cafe along the Seine.

Here is the southern part of the opera house in Paris. It was a bright and sunny day, so everything came out nice and sharp.

I found what the knights wanted… Actually there was a sign there that said No Entry, but I ignored that because the flowers were too pretty not to capture with the Eiffel.

I thought this was sort of an armageddon / apocalypse / revelations view of Notre Dame. I was lucky that day with the clouds that makes this place look more extreme… even though it is pretty extreme on its own anyway.

Here’s that tower thing that I can’t ever remember the name of… I asked a bunch of French people while I was there and they would just give me a blank stare, like they didn’t understand Esperanto.

Here is a non-HDR shot of the Petit Palais, which is not so petite, but it is moreso than the Grand Palais from across the street.

Here is a map from Google maps about where I was… testing this thing out:

This photo came out surprisingly nicely. This was shot over the Seine as I was walking over towards the Eiffel Tower at sunset.

Here is the pinnacle of French military technology. This has been converted to a water cannon to hose down people that are protesting the inhumane 35-hour work week.

He would not tell me his name.

He would not tell me his dreams.

I found him at a pro-Hezbollah rally in Paris. I asked if I could take a photograph of his interesting face. He tapped his ear, looked sideways, and then said I could take his picture even though “you have the blue eyes.”

I found this weird tower thing in France… I had never heard of it but I decided to take a picture anyway.

I didn’t have my tripod this day in Paris, so I took a lot of handheld shots, most of which still turned out okay. I really tend to rely on my tripod now… sort of a crutch. Anyway, here is one of Notre Dame.

This is Ahmed.

Ahmed’s dream is to see Israel wiped off the face of the map. With dark eyes, he stares out across a sea of men yelling “Praise Allah”.

Ahmed is currently attending a Hezbollah rally in Paris, holding a poster of a burned Palastinian child.

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This comes from a series of portraits I have in a set over on Flickr:

In Paris, I get to Notre Dame just as the clouds were perfect, so I was lucky with this HDR.

I had a hellish layover in Paris because of plane troubles, so I grabbed a train into Paris for the evening. Right when I came out of the subway, I was in the middle of an anti-Isreal pro-Hisbollah rally… That is not the picture below, obviously… these are all happy white people eating grapes and talking about how nice the 35 hour work week is.