Marcus Winter | blog

Here are some pic­tures from our recent week­end trip to Paris. We had a great time (although my legs still hurt two days after we were back from all the walk­ing around) and were very lucky with the weather. I can only rec­om­mend a trip there for any­one who has not seen it yet. You need more than a day and a half, though, too see it all...

Arc de Tri­om­phe (panorama)

look­ing down Avenue des Champs-Élysées in the direc­tion of Palais du Lou­vre (center)...

Arc de Tri­om­phe (panorama) v2

This is another ver­sion of the Arc de Tri­om­phe panorama, using the same set of pho­tos, in which the indi­vid­ual shots were stitched together dif­fer­ently to give a more real­is­tic per­spec­tive.
I think I like this one bet­ter, but with this method the panora­mas can­not become too wide since the dis­tor­tions increase sig­nif­i­cantly the fur­ther one goes to the left and right. That is why the Tour Eif­fel is miss­ing in this one...

La Défense (panorama)

This is another one taken from the Arc de Tri­om­phe, this time look­ing in the oppo­site direc­tion, down the Avenue de la Grand Armée towards La Défense.

La Tour Eiffel

inside La Tour Eiffel

This was taken going up the stairs inside the south­ern “leg” of the tower, some­where below the low­est plat­form. At night, the whole tower is bathed in yel­low­ish sodium light, inside and out. The round things in the cen­ter of the pic­ture are the lamps, illu­mi­nat­ing upwards away from me.

JSOVT(MB): La Tour Eiffel

We didn’t have a JSOVT(MB) for quite a while I guess, even though Julia’s been sit­ting every­where. Heh. Well, here’s one that fits nicely into the Eif­fel Tower series that I got going here. It was actu­ally Julia’s idea to do this, it being her series and all.

Okay, so this was taken on the first plat­form of the Eif­fel tower. We took the stairs up to the sec­ond plat­form, from where you have to take the ele­va­tor to the very top. How­ever, after wait­ing in line for this ele­va­tor for about half an hour we were told that our tick­ets were only good for the stairs and thus the sec­ond plat­form, and we would have to buy “exten­sion tick­ets” to go all the way up. This would have meant get­ting in that line again after buy­ing the tick­ets and after a whole day’s walk­ing through Paris we were too tired at 11pm to do that. So I guess we have to come back to Paris one day to fin­ish the Eif­fel Tower...

Arc de Tri­om­phe du Car­rousel (panorama)

There is noth­ing very amaz­ing about this panorama and the only rea­son that I post it is the amount of work that went into it. It’s the lit­tle brother of the Arc de Tri­om­phe that lives between the Lou­vre and the Tui­leries. When we were at the place, there were at least three times as many peo­ple there as you can see in this pic­ture. I shot the panorama with a lot of over­lap between pic­tures and was able to remove a lot of the folks in post, as they were mov­ing around. Lots of cut­ting, though, which took its time.

We didn’t visit the Lou­vre on this trip, since had we done so we wouldn’t have had time for much else, but it’s gonna hap­pen one day. It’s only a 3-hour train ride...