17 November 2014

Hoops

In the Marais neighborhood of central Paris, schoolboys play basketball behind the Eglise Saint-Paul Saint-Louis during the Toussaint holiday break.

The dark red porte cochère (courtyard door) in the background is the entrance to the Lycée Charlemagne, a high school.

The church tower, covered in tarps and scaffolding, is undergoing renovations.

5 comments:

  1. Amazing lighting in these photos. And, it's really interesting how both photos catch the balls in the air -- not a one on the ground. I love the one against the wall, where, at first, I thought that was a girl doing ballet moves :)

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  2. Hi Ken, these are both great snaps! And what a cool school! Nothing like the ones I attended in suburban California. Perhaps I would have paid more attention to history if I had attended school in buildings where some history had actually occurred….

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  3. Wow. Those are gorgeous photos. How do you make them so huge?

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    1. Betty, the photos that come directly out of my camera are probably twice the size of the ones I post on the blog. The maximum size that Blogger seems to take is 1,600 pixels in either height or width. I use Photoshop Element to resize the originals and make them fit the blog.

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  4. fantastic looks like in Alice Wonderland..

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