J’adore Paris
I feel like I gush about Paris all the time. But actually, I really don’t think I do. I think that I think about it all the time. I miss it. I’m not sure what, exactly, it is, but I just LOVE Paris. I typically love any big cities, though, and the older the better. I wanted to live in Europe when I graduated college. In fact, I had started looking into teaching over there on a military base. That’s how much I love Europe.
When I went to Paris this summer, it was the first time being back in Europe since 2001. Did I have an amazing time! If I didn’t have kids or a husband, I could totally live there. I didn’t really need to come back at all! I loved the beauty. I loved the simplicity. I loved the metro. Wait, what? Yes, I LOVED the metro! I loved walking everywhere….the food…the drinks…the slightly bitchy attitude that I’m pretty sure I could (can) pull off to a T.
So in missing Paris, I look back at my pictures a lot. And some of these pictures, the really good ones, start coming out of the wood work. Disclaimer and slight diversion: I didn’t take any pictures with the intent of creating note cards with them. I didn’t take time to set up the shot, make sure the lighting was just right, or any of that. I just took the picture to capture the moment. Upon looking back, I took some really good shots! And I’m not saying this to pretend I’m some natural photographer. I think I just got lucky. I wasn’t in Paris with visions of an Etsy shop in the back of my mind.
This is just a long way of saying that I have new cards up in my Etsy shop! I have 2 new cards to add to the Paris collection. The Eiffel Tower shot was taken atop the Arc d’Triomphe on a rainy day. A little cropping and the adding of the BW effect, I think it creates the Old World charm of Paris. When I look at that picture, it’s not obvious to me that it was taken in 2011. It could’ve been taken in 1950. Or 1890 (if that’s even possible). I absolutely love it. The second picture is of the Winged Victory of Samothrace, which stands proudly in the Louvre Musee. I really liked this one. A lot! A little tweaking of the colors and I’m really happy with how she turned out!
Both are now available on my Etsy Shop. Won’t you please take a peek?
Where’s a place you’d like to visit again? Or live?
