street photography

What are your favorite physical activities or exercises?

This is similar to a recent prompt. Of the big three (walking, swimming, biking), walking is the easiest—no helmet or bathing suit required.

It’s really fun to walk around a new city, or a neighborhood you’ve never been to before in your own city. I had no problem closing my Apple Watch rings in Paris. (Yes, more Paris, sorry. I don’t travel that much, so this trip was a big deal.) Here are some street scenes from our walks around Paris.

Le Marais – the 4th arrondissement – showing its pride 🌈

The Big Wheel on Place de la Concorde with Christmas Market in foreground

View of Pont Alexandre III and the Grand Palais from Les Invalides

Louis XIV statue at Versailles: you can build yourself the grandest palace in Europe, but it won’t stop a seagull from sitting on your head!

The famous “Centaur” by the sculptor César (an ode to Picasso) with traffic cone embellishment 😂

First glimpse of the dome of Les Invalides from the Army Museum courtyard

The grand gate at the Palais de Justice on the Île de la Cité (the historic island in the River Seine)

On the bridge to the Île de la Cité (the Seine looking greenish that day)

On Rue Cler – the cutest little Paris street

Street photographer

List three jobs you’d consider pursuing if money didn’t matter.

Three jobs that sound fun to me are fragrance tester, ice cream taster, and street photographer.

Perhaps I’ll pursue one of these when I retire, although I bet they want people with younger senses for the first two.

So maybe I’ll look into street photography. I recently attended a talk by Izzy Rodriguez, a Providence street photographer and it made me remember how I had liked it once.

I took a photography class for fun in the late 80s at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. I enjoyed going out on the streets of Boston with my camera. It was a 35mm Canon. I developed and printed the film in class. Here are some photos that I took. These people were all strangers to me, except the last one is my sister.