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May get there eventually

Seriously? Again with the clichés? I almost have it out of my system.

The only possible thing that might salvage this is that the woman down the stairs a few turns has almost the same image on the screen of her phone.

Eventually, she and I made it to the bottom of the stairs and outside in the Parisian evening.

Arc de Triomphe
Paris
photographed 6.10.2017

City View

I don’t think I did all that much better getting non-clichéd shots when I got to the top… This is the view down the Champs Élysées, and way, way back there, on the left horizon is Sacré Coeur.

Arc de Triomphe
Paris
photographed 6.10.2017

Arch

This is the same general situation I was in at the Eiffel Tower – how to get a fresh image of an iconic building. So, anyway, here the Arc de Triomphe, in a view you’ve no doubt seen before.

Arc de Triomphe
Paris
photographed 6.10.2017

Unexpected

Traffic cones were definitely not what I thought I’d see at Versailles! And you know what else? Way down there, at the end of the row of cones, there’s razor wire.

Versailles
photographed 6.9.2017

Hardware

Here’s the thing: I didn’t really get into all the gold and crystal chandeliers and etc. at Versailles; all of it just made me think, “Really? Why?”

But this? I liked this.

Versailles
photographed 6.9.2017