Travelling Memories : Shine A Light, Gustave. Paris 2018

            While pretty much rooted to home in another lockdown I thought I'd root through my previous holiday photos and post some that haven't seen the light of day on Flickr before.

Our last night in Paris in 2018 and we decided to make the ascent to the top of the Montparnasse Tower to see the sunset over Paris. (And, it's joked, it's the one place that you can't see the Montparnasse Tower from!) But as our hotel was just around the corner from it and we'd not done it before it was high on our to do list. We arrived at the indoor viewing floor at the top with time to spare and had a drink and then went to the open air rooftop terrace above to see the sunset 

Unfortunately, so had a lot of other tourists who had had the same idea as us. And they had got there a lot sooner than us. And had consequently taken up all the vantage points at the cutouts in the glass roof edge screen that had been made for photographers. And of course everyone wanted the side with the Eiffel Tower on it! (reading about this on Tripadvisor afterwards this can cause a bit of agro between people who arrive very early to bag the best spot and people who arrive with half an hour to spare, but what can you do!?) 

So we did the best we could pointing our cameras over peoples shoulders and under peoples armpits as said people zealously guarded the spot they had been camped out at for the past two hours or so. My Fuji XS-1 Bridge (that looks like a DSLR) and Samsung compact dwarfed by some multi thousand pound lens mounted on some multi thousand pound camera body. The sunset came and with it the Eiffel Towers searchlight began its nightly ritual scanning of the night sky over Paris. And when it really got dark Gustavs masterpiece began to do it's 1 (or is it 2?) minute twinkling of a thousand lights. At which point every camera pointing it's way went mad. This is one of the better pictures I took, sans the twinkling lights. The high rise district of 'La Defence' sits behind the Eiffel Tower, banned from the city centre and forever cast out to the fringes of Paris.

Taken in: France / Île-de-France / Paris / Montparnasse (show map)

Taken on: April 17, 2018

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Camera: Fujifilm X-S1, f/4.0, 1/4 sec, 30mm, ISO 400 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Fujifilm X-S1
Aperture:	f/4.0
Exposure Time:	0.25 sec (1/4)
Focal Length:	30mm
ISO:	400
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Program AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Digital Camera X-S1 Ver1.01
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