Paris

by Joseph T. Sinclair

My best friend’s son mar­ried a French gal. Her par­ents live in Lille in the north of France. They are both den­tists. They have a den­tist friend who has part­nered with anoth­er per­son to buy a château in north­ern France at Frevent about 40 miles from Lille. It was at the chateau that the bride and groom were to be mar­ried. My wife and I hav­ing been invit­ed to the wed­ding thought what bet­ter excuse to spend mon­ey we did­n’t have than to go to a French wed­ding and then on to Paris.

The trip to France for me was one ongo­ing pho­to op from minute to minute. Even though we were there for 16 days I could not con­sume every pho­to op I saw. But I did have my smart­phone with me unlocked to accept a French Orange SIMM, which allowed me to make phone calls dur­ing my 16-day vis­it and which also enabled me to take phone cam­era pho­tos. Here are sev­er­al from north­ern France.

 

 

After the wed­ding, we were off to Paris for the remain­der of our trip. Rather than bore you with per­son­al snap­shots, I include below some of the pho­tos I took of tourist attrac­tions. But I tried to take unusu­al pho­tos of typ­i­cal attractions.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In addi­tion, I love to take pic­tures of works of art. In Paris, most of the muse­ums allow pho­tos so long as you don’t use a flash.

 

 

Final­ly, I took a  self­ie to spice up my social media.

All in all, a trip to a place like Paris, or what­ev­er venue gets your adren­a­line pump­ing, is a great oppor­tu­ni­ty to have fun tak­ing photos.