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This is a creative collaboration . My son James took this pic in 2007 in Paris when we visited ( he told me to do whatever i wanted with his shots...so i try to do something good and creative with them ) . It is a good shot to start with... some of you who ask how i do it...from TIME to TIME I take the TIME to explain myself...so here it is...this image was cropped...then put thru Paintshop Pro X...then thru Photoshop CS5 ( i downloaded the trial version ) and then in piknik and finally my trusted Moulinex of course .
Talk about changing things !!
;-)
Une nuit en plein jour !
Le ciel a naturellement été changé, et à partir d'un soleil partiellement voilé, transformé en une "lune qui boit" dans une mer de nuages diffus. Le traitement de la pierre est assez simple, mais celui de la pyramide a nécessité un peu plus de travail...8-)>
Ce n'est plus de la photographie "brute de capteur", c'est vrai, mais est-ce désagréable à l'œil pour autant?
Je ne crois pas à la photo "objective": l'œil n'est qu'un instrument d'optique superbement élaboré, mais c'est le cerveau qui voit, et donc interprète les données qui lui sont transmises...
Louvre, Paris, Ceiling / μουσείο
The Palace
The first Louvre was a fortress built at the beginning of the 13th century by Philip II Augustus to defend the Seine below Paris against the Normans and English. It consisted of a thick cylindrical donjon (dungeon) surrounded by towered walls. This château, enlarged and embellished by Charles V in the 14th century, was sacrificed in the 16th century at the end of the reign of Francis I in order to make room for a new Renaissance structure of the same size. Only the west wing and part of the south wing of the projected palace, conceived by the architect Pierre Lescot and decorated with sculptures by Jean Goujon, were finished.
In 1564 Catherine de Médicis had her architect, Philibert Delorme, build a little château in a neighboring field to the west called the Tuileries. It was then decided to create a grandiose royal residence by joining the Louvre and the Palais des Tuileries by a series of buildings. The most important is the Grande Galerie built along the Seine in the reign of Henry IV.
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Le Louvre ~ Paris ~ MjYj
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La tour Montparnasse, également appelée tour Maine-Montparnasse, est un gratte-ciel situé dans le quartier Necker (15e arrondissement) de Paris. Sa hauteur, de 210 m suivant les sources, en fait pendant longtemps l'immeuble le plus haut de France, avant l'achèvement de la tour First en 2011.
Elle fut conçue par les architectes Jean Saubot, Eugène Beaudouin, Urbain Cassan et Louis de Hoÿm de Marien.
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Tour Maine-Montparnasse (Maine-Montparnasse Tower), also commonly named Tour Montparnasse, is a 210-metre (689 ft) office skyscraper located in the Montparnasse area of Paris, France. Constructed from 1969 to 1972, it was the tallest skyscraper in France until 2011, when it was surpassed by the 231 m (758 ft) Tour First. As of June 2013, it is the 14th tallest building in the European Union. The tower was designed by architects Eugène Beaudouin, Urbain Cassan and Louis Hoym de Marien and built by Campenon Bernard.
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Louvre Sunset ~ Paris ~ MjYj
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Rainy Days Are Made For Two ~ Paris ~ MjYj
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Capture from the " Cour Napoléon " ( Louvre Museum ) - Paris
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The Louvre Museum at night
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Le palais du Louvre est un ancien palais royal situé à Paris sur la rive droite de la Seine, entre le jardin des Tuileries et l'église Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois. S'étendant sur une surface bâtie de plus de 135 000 m², le palais du Louvre est le plus grand palais européen, et le second plus grand bâtiment du continent après le Palais du Parlement roumain. Il abrite aujourd'hui l'un des plus riches musées d'art du monde : le Musée du Louvre.
La construction du Louvre est indissociable de l'histoire de la ville de Paris. Elle s'étend sur plus de 800 ans, bien que le plan général du palais ait été imaginé dès la Renaissance. Charles V y établit sa résidence, donnant au palais un statut qu'il a conservé jusqu'au règne de Louis XIV.
Avec 8,9 millions de visiteurs annuels en 2011, c'est le site culturel le plus visité en France devant la tour Eiffel, la cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris étant en tête des monuments à l'accès libre avec 13,6 millions de visiteurs estimés.
De 1981 à 1999, le palais fait l'objet d'importants travaux de modernisation désignés sous le nom de Grand Louvre et entrant dans le cadre des « Grands Travaux » définis par le président de la République François Mitterrand. Ces aménagements consistant à rendre la totalité du palais à sa fonction de musée (jusqu'en 1989, une partie de celui-ci abritait également le ministère des Finances), sont caractérisés par la construction de la pyramide de verre (inaugurée le 30 mars 1989), située au milieu de la cour Napoléon, œuvre de l'architecte sino-américain Ieoh Ming Pei et qui mène à un grand hall d'accueil souterrain. Une copie en plomb de la Statue équestre de Louis XIV sous les traits de Marcus Curtius par Le Bernin et Girardon est alors ajoutée.
The Louvre Palace, on the Right Bank of the Seine in Paris, is a former royal palace situated between the Tuileries Gardens and the church of Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois. Its origins date back to the medieval period, and its present structure has evolved in stages since the 16th century. It was the actual seat of power in France until Louis XIV moved to Versailles in 1682, bringing the government with him. The Louvre remained the nominal, or formal, seat of government until the end of the Ancien Régime in 1789. Since then it has housed the celebrated Musée du Louvre as well as various government departments.
The current Louvre Palace is an almost rectangular structure, composed of the square Cour Carrée and two wings which wrap the Cour Napoléon to the north and south. In the heart of the complex is the Louvre Pyramid, above the visitors' centre. The museum is divided into three wings: the Sully Wing to the east, which contains the Cour Carrée and the oldest parts of the Louvre; the Richelieu Wing to the north; and the Denon Wing, which borders the Seine to the south.
In 1983, French President François Mitterrand proposed the Grand Louvre plan to renovate the building and move the Finance Ministry out, allowing displays throughout the building. American architect I. M. Pei was awarded the project and proposed a modernist glass pyramid for the central courtyard. The pyramid and its underground lobby were inaugurated on 15 October 1988. Controversial at first, it has become an accepted Parisian architectural landmark. The second phase of the Grand Louvre plan, La Pyramide Inversée (The Inverted Pyramid), was completed in 1993. As of 2002, attendance had doubled since completion.
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This was a quick off-hand shot on the way into the courtyard at the Louvre, but I quite liked it when I got round to processing it. It has an almost alien quality to it. As I've probably said in previous Louvre photos, this place is hideous during the day. Throngs of people, massive queues and a bad atmosphere. At night-time, however, it's a whole different pyramid of fish.
During the small hours, the whole courtyard become magical. Hardly anyone is around late and night, the water is amazingly still and yet you're in the heart of Paris. So my tip is to avoid the whole area during the day and wait until everyone goes home. You'll miss the Mona Lisa, but that was one of the most underwhelming things I've ever seen.
The glass pyramids were not.
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