User:ThePromenader/Gallery

Promenade Gallery

After living here for fifteen years I discovered that I hadn't taken even one touristic photo. So last summer...

Paris Here and There

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  the Eiffel Tower from the Trocadéro
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  the Arc de Triomphe from the avenue Friedland
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  View mid-way along the rue Royale towards la place de la Concorde
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  the Obelisque centrepiece of la place de la Concorde
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  Montmartre from the centre Georges Pompidou
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  the place Vendome seen from the rue de la Paix
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  My Trocadéro/Eiffel tower picture is back.
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  The inauguration of the T3 tram line back in 2006.
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  an unretouched Notre-Dame Cathedral
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  I am proud to be among one of the few who managed to visit the St-Jacques-de-la-boucherie tower.
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  Lamppost on the Pont des Arts, Paris.
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  View of the Eiffel Tower and some of Paris from the top of the St-Jacques-de-la-boucherie tower. Not the best lighting (hazy day), but… ; )
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  The 'Conciergérie' facade of the Palais de Justice (Île de la Cité)

Paris Souterrain

I severly doubt anyone will have any use for these but I have other more "classic" images I will upload when they are scanned properly. For the photos below, I put the (my) silhouette in there as a size reference by bouncing a flash away from the camera. I must be one of the only people in the history of the catacombs stupid enough to go down wearing a WWI leather jacket and 1930's borcalino - but I liked the effect.

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  Val-de-grace stair - red version "sans moi"
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  The "Radio Room" under the Val-de-Grâce - Featured Photo and 'Picture of the Day' (August 19, 2011) for Hebrew Wikipedia
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  Twenty metres under the Fermiers-Généraux wall
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  Galerie PTT - Phone lines
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  French Flag Fun in the "Shiottes" of the Abri Laval
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  Long hallway - green version
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  Long hallway - yellow version
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  The famous "Salle Z"
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  Val-de-grace stair - blue version
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  Val-de-grace stair - red version
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  Autoportrait

...and here's a few 'normal' clichés without all the light fun. These were scanned from 36mm film ... the colour could use some work.

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  this is a stone tablet embedded in the foundations of Paris' former fortifications - it commemorates the completion of the city defenses in 1843
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  one of the largest caverns in Paris' 14e arrondissement
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  detail of a stair near the Marie de Médecis aqueduct in Paris' 14e arrondissement
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  A door to a part of the underground mines transformed into a bomb shelter.

Le Chemin de Fer de Petite Ceinture

I've got tons of these to rescan, so more will appear over time. From an abandoned railway that once ran rings around Paris.

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  Gare de Charonne-Voyageurs.
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  view from the rue Brancion bridge to the west: visible to the right are the remains of the quays of the Brancion-Bestiaux slaughterhouses
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  abandoned junction to the RATP (métro) hangars
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  under the bridge carrying the rue Raymond Losserand

Maps & Plans

I'm somewhat of a "mapaholic" - I've made more than a few of them in my time.

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  Plan of the île-de-France région.
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  Plan of Paris for Paris Streets Wikiproject infobox.
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  Demographic plan of 'round Paris, with land-use and urbanisation info.
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  Editable SVG of the Île-de-France, its eight départements and its 1,281 communes .