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The humungous structure that is the Arche at La Defense in Paris.
This is my final shot of the Eiffel Tower and I managed to capture this on another cloudy day.
Although it was supposed to be the summery season, I hardly saw the sun during the 4 days that I was there. Most of the time it was either raining or just freezing cold.
Taken from the top of the Eiffel Tower I think…or was it half way up….I can’t remember now.
I would have liked for this shot to come out slightly better but this will suffice for now…until my next trip to Paris. 
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.”;
-Albert Einstein
An older shot I had on my machine from an ancient camera which I thought might as well upload. It was taken with a Canon Ixus II and this is pretty much how it came out of the camera. I had to clone out a few people as they just wouldn’t move and I didn’t have the patience to wait at that time back then, as I would have missed my metro back to my hotel.
Color contributes to beauty, but it is not beauty. Color should have a minor part in the consideration of beauty, because it is not [color] but the structure that constitutes its essence.
-Johann Joachim Winckelmann
The congregation of people here every night, provides a wonderful atmosphere for all. Everyone just sits outside the numerous steps leading upto this church, either drinking wine, playing drums or with the arms around their loved ones.
I didn’t get a chance to go inside the church as by the time I got there they were closing up for the night.
For anyone who has been here, its one long uphill walk. My legs ached for days afterwards. 
Taken through one of the many windows in the Louvre.
Its like people are heading into some secret underground bunker or into a different dimension….Stargate style for anyone who remembers that film.
As I gathered outside in the queue to get my ticket to take me to the summit of the Eiffel Tower, a series of angry looking clouds were fast approaching.
It was cold enough being on the ground, but when I got to the top…..Jesus Christ….it was mega mega cold. The wind was so intense and strong that when I walked round each corner, it was like I was doing a Michael Jackson moonwalk.
The Arc de Triomphe is one of the most famous monuments in Paris that stands in the centre of the Place Charles de Gaulle at the western end of the Champs-Élysées.
Planted right in the centre of a 10 exit roundabout, (we saw one car circling the roundabout 20 times, he found it impossible to get to an exit with the mayhem of cars there…seriously), its quite an amazing structure. Standing atop it, it somehow gives everyone an almighty sense of importance and freedom…plus the view is fantastic..watching all those cars going round and unable to get out is almost funny.
The whole atmosphere on the Champs-Élysées is superb. Street entertainers run around performing tricks, playing with their instruments, as waiters rush in + out with about 10 plates of food all somehow balanced in their hands.
The Eiffel Tower by Night
