Winter Afternoon along the Quais, Paris
Beautiful on Black! Click on photo.
[Still reposting....for contacts who probably never saw these photos, and continuing this theme of Trees. Can't seem to get Flickr to work these days.....hopefully my internet connection will improve soon. The company says they will be adding bandwidth this month. We will see.......For now I wish you all a happy weekend and will respond to your comments as my connection allows!]
[Scroll down for another view of the quai, below.]
This brisk winter afternoon in Paris, I was very much excited to take some pictures because it had rained and my favorite conditions were showing up. The low lying winter haze of the last 9 days that had prevented me taking the pictures I had hoped for, was finally over. I had extended my visit to Paris -- changed train reservations and hotel arrangements to stay an extra day in the hopes that there would be beautiful rainclouds and light. I was not disappointed: after visiting the Musee D'Orsay at midday, I came out onto the quai to a fabulous sky!! Slowly making my way towards Notre Dame I shot an entire set. The sun, being low in the west created a rosy golden wonderfulness, throwing winter shadows on the wall. The magic time of day was here!
[J'etais a Paris deja depuis neuf jours sans avoir eu l'atmosphere que j'attendais pour mes images, car l'hiver nous avait donne que des ciels couverts. Donc, avec l'esperance qu'un orage qui devais arrive pendant la nuit allait bien se produir, j'ai change mon itineraire pour pouvoir rester a Paris encore une journee. Je n'ai pas ete decue. En sortant du Musee D'Orsay j'etais heureuse de decouvrir un ciel emouvant et une lumiere de fin de journee splendide. Vous aurez deja peut-etre vu mes autres photos de cet apres-midi: Le Henri IV, Le Quai de Conti au coucher du soleil, Le Quai des Orfevres, et La Vue du Louvre et le Pont des Arts au crepuscule. Je posterai d'autres dans cette serie, en les ajoutant a celles de Paris dans ma serie sur la France.]
note: Nadine: you asked about the lens. for this shot I was using my Fuji Finepix S7000 6.2 megapixel camera whose lens is a 35 mm equivalent (35 mm - 210 mm range). I am currently using only a CANON EOS 50D with two lenses for my landscape and urban landscape shots: a wide angle (28 - 88 mm equivalent) and zoom (45 - 215 mm equivalent with image stabilizer feature for tricky exposures.) For my commercial work taking pictures of interiors, I use a 10 to 20 mm lens.
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ken mccown, ...kranich, Nadine1016, cobalt123, and 198 other people added this photo to their favorites.
...kranich (71 months ago | reply)
This is beautiful, Rita! Excellent composition and symmetry. I love the quality of the light.
Nadine1016 (71 months ago | reply)
Rita, i enjoy your work SO much...this is just such incredible light color and the details are so beautiful..what lens do you use? 35mm ?
Rita Crane Photography (71 months ago | reply)
Ken: thanks for visiting!
Kate: nice to hear from you! Thanks for visiting. :-)
Nadine: dear Northern California neighbor: see the lens info in the description which I just now put up in response to your question.
And another view of the Quais from a different angle, zoomed out:
cobalt123 (71 months ago | reply)
Yes, the little crop you show does help this image, but I faved it right away the way you show it here. Lovely light and composition!
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rondostar (71 months ago | reply)
This would look wonderful framed and blown up. I love that there are two ways to look at this photo. Macro and Micro. Great job!
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pikhuben (71 months ago | reply)
Great colors and a wonderful atmosphere. Why did it take so long to post this photo to Flickr. It is summer now and it is really hot. From The Continuum Pool
Karbassi (Randoms) (71 months ago | reply)
I love the picture, but the water bothers me somewhat. I don't know why.
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jfpower (71 months ago | reply)
A lovely shot with wonderfull light.
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littleBiGsis (71 months ago | reply)
Nice winter shot. Paris looks very lovely.
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fuzzbox (71 months ago | reply)
That's really good.
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a bout de souffle [deleted] (71 months ago | reply)
A poem in Paris...
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jovivebo (71 months ago | reply)
beautiful ! - lookatme
Axel V (71 months ago | reply)
beautiful shot, great composition
lynnieb [deleted] (71 months ago | reply)
Beautifully composed...love the three trees and couples.
overthemoon (71 months ago | reply)
What I like best here - the shadows of the trees - two of them prolonged by the trees behind the wall. And the golden light.
Tony-H (71 months ago | reply)
Wonderful colour and shadows ... great composition too. For a moment I wondered what had happened to the leaves, 'til I saw that you took this in March. A "fave" for me!
Rita Crane Photography (71 months ago | reply)
Thanks everyone for your comments! This picture was first of a series that I took that day. Here's a few others, for example, already posted to my France set ....taken a few hours later at the last light of the day:
Quai des Orfevres After a Storm
Henri IV, Pont Neuf
View of Quai de Conti & the Seine
Sara Richer (71 months ago | reply)
Superb work! With the warm muted colour and limited pallette you have made full use of the evening light. The composition is spot on, although the crop you suggest is also good.
I can't believe this hasn't got a tag yet - it's one of the best photos in the LPT pool at the moment!
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Cid*(away) (71 months ago | reply)
Very beautiful! I love the colours!
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Oldvidhead (71 months ago | reply)
Beautiful lighting on this one Rita. Must have been a great day for picture taking given your productivity.
p*p (71 months ago | reply)
It was a fave before it opened, Rita.
Hope you´re fine.
Have a great week!! :-)
Rita Crane Photography (71 months ago | reply)
wow. just returned from work to find happy visitors! thanks so much for your comments.
La Seine runs through Paris .... a real treasure it is to walk along its banks. Glad you are enjoying the ride!
voxipsa (71 months ago | reply)
gorgeous crisp light and I love this composition with so much open space
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Christine Lebrasseur (71 months ago | reply)
Les jeux d'ombres et de lumières, la mouvement du fleuve, la staticité de la pierre, tout cela forme une belle alchimie, bravo...
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Renata Diem (71 months ago | reply)
A masterpiece. This is amazing! Congratulations! :)
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jessi. (71 months ago | reply)
Wonderful image, great golden light. Nice job.
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3jbm (71 months ago | reply)
the color of the stone is wonderful
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Pieter Musterd (71 months ago | reply)
Beautifull picture of light and shadows. Golden colours all over. Is Great and thats why you get my 4th ace. (4 Aces)
angle_in_soul (71 months ago | reply)
the light and shadow are wonderful! how calm, warm, beautiful winter afternoon!
Nadine1016 (71 months ago | reply)
thanks for the lens info.. :)
rotraud_71 away for a while ~~~ (71 months ago | reply)
Wonderful image, light, colors, composition - great! Fave!
MJ² (71 months ago | reply)
I like the scale of the people in relation to their surroundings. Great conditions for shooting.
[ changó ] (71 months ago | reply)
Very beautiful composition. I like the colors and the shadows.
Blue Silver [deleted] (71 months ago | reply)
You seem to like the same cities as me: Paris, Venice (have you ever been to Vienna?). this here is so wonderful with its golden light and the slight melancholy lying over the place. (Crop? Yes, maybe to make it square)
Rita Crane Photography (71 months ago | reply)
Thanks so much Flickr-ites for all your visits! Very appreciated. :-)
@Blue Silver: yes I like some of the same cities that you have also photographed. Haven't yet been to Vienna? Should I go ?
~Klaw~ (71 months ago | reply)
Lovely shot/tones
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Dave J Johnson (71 months ago | reply)
really nice image, the lighting and compostion is superb. I have suggested a crop though and would be interested to see what it looks like if you wouldn't mind sending me a link or the cropped photo.
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arny johanns (71 months ago | reply)
WYF
the walking people..
Orient Sea (71 months ago | reply)
Beautiful and lovely pictute!
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Rita Crane Photography (71 months ago | reply)
Thanks everyone for your comments!!
@Dave J Johnson: I like your idea a lot and think it could look just great as a panorama with the focus on the walkers. I'm not certain how good the resolution would be when enlarged .... one would definitely want good resolution on everyone's faces so the expressions of recognition and waved hand could be seen. I'll have to check that out. thanks for the idea! It could be a detail view of the image.
But I still love this square format with all the detail of the trees, the facade of the Louvre, the water....and how the people are really only part of this bigger world. They seem small here and rightly so....that is to me part of the charm of this view.....so that one feels strongly the presence of NATURE in the CITY......such a delight to the people who come to enjoy the banks of the beautiful Seine.
again...thanks everyone! :-)
Canis Major (71 months ago | reply)
Beautiful colours that you only really get in winter, I like the original composition though if anything I'd lose a little of the water. 3:1
Ahmad Al Zarouni (71 months ago | reply)
Amazing
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auwa (71 months ago | reply)
wonderful warm tones, lovely light
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Gauis Caecilius (71 months ago | reply)
I loce some of the lighting you get in winter sometimes. I took some lovely shots of a medieval manor house in Kent called Ightham Mote one winter afternoon.
Dancing star (71 months ago | reply)
The light in this is, indeed, lovely. The warm tones are exquisite. Beautiful photo.
Dee Johnson (71 months ago | reply)
beautiful colors anice warm look for a cold winter day. love the shadows as well- makes the shot! (3:1 Group)
dangers (71 months ago | reply)
Superbe lumière. Cette scène représente bien Paris. 3:1
theicetroll (71 months ago | reply)
Great pic, great colours
pop500km (71 months ago | reply)
great capture and beautiful composition！
like the warm tone and mood...
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ojoblanco (71 months ago | reply)
a very nice composition. lovely light and shadows.
(it's always worth staying in paris an extra day. i could imagine staying there the rest of my life!)
thanks very much for taking the time to write that long comment on my "art of glass" set. i finally got unlazy and wrote you an explanation, though the fact is that you totally understood what was going on. in any case, here's the link of my response: www.flickr.com/photos/ojoblanco/sets/72057594 133595930/co...