Two photos today — one in daylight, one in darkness — of the same scene.
I took them on the same day, five hours apart.
I took them on the same day, five hours apart.
The Roman governors of Gaul and the earliest kings of France lived on the Île de la Cité in this complex, called le palais du roi. King Louis IX, known as saint Louis, lived here in the 13th century and had the Sainte-Chapelle built in a courtyard of the palace. The complex was turned into the palais de justice (the law courts) at the time of the 1789 Revolution.
Glorious photos and history! Kiwi
ReplyDeleteAm I seeing a moon rising in the second photo- no I think it's a dome next to the Eiffel Tower.
ReplyDeleteI think you might be right, Evelyn, there is no dôme there. The Eiffel Tower can be seen next to it.
DeleteI can't tell what it is. Is it a dome? I don't think so. But it's not round enough to be the moon.
DeleteIf it is the moon, and IMHO I think it is, it is a very small portion of it. When the moon rises it is very big and what we see could be a small part of the curvature. We’ll never know!
DeleteDoes the moon rise in the west? I was looking west toward the Eiffel Tower when I took the nighttime photo at about 9:30 p.m. You'd think a moon that big would appear in other westward-looking pictures I took that evening.
DeleteI’m not a sky specialist, nor a specialist on anything, for that matter, but I think it is what I I’m not a sky specialist, nor a specialist on anything, for that matter, but I think it is what I see. It all depends on if this photo is the first one or the last one?
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DeleteIt just occurred to me, if it is not the Moon could it be one of the golden bulbs of the new Holy Trinity Russian cathedral?
DeleteKnowing this, if you enlarge the “moon”, you can see the shape of a Russian bulb. Case closed,
DeleteIt can't be that, Charles-Henry. The Russian cathedral is north of the Eiffel Tower. I think that "moon" is the floodlit dome of the Institut de France.
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ReplyDeleteI've still never been to the Conciergerie!
ReplyDeleteNice contrast to see the night and day photos! Love those cones!
ReplyDeleteBreathtaking! Linda from Alabama
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