#Paris, late summer evening, something special

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It's been a while since I posted a photograph, but this evening taking a little stroll to the place de la reunion in the 20eme here in my neighbourhood, 28 degrees in the shade and its October, doesn't get much better than this...

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9/11 photo with strange G.O.D message

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We were living on Broadway between Berry and Wythe and the morning of 9/11. When we heard on the TV about the first plane, I just knew it could not have been an accident on such a clear sunny morning. I spent the next few hours, between the road downstairs, the TV in the loft and the balcony out back looking in disbelief, listening to the helicopters overhead and the army on foot on the bridge, documenting some of what I saw. One of the early shots I took from the road looking towards Manhattan and the towers was the one with the G.O.D truck. Imagine... 1-800-Dial-God just happened to be parked there at this particular moment... stranger than fiction... I remember the first moment I hit the street, I was taking some movie footage of the towers, no one was about at this stage except one woman walking, with her back to the city, towards me. She noticed I was filming and turned to look in the direction of my attention and said out loud 'oh my God' 

 

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my beautiful view, #Paris, rue de Bagnolet

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my view #sketched from rue de Bagnolet, #Paris 20eme

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for those friends who have visited and know this view...
only a few weeks left in this apartment, I will miss it

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Days of summer #sketch from #Orvieto, #Italy

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another from the sketchpad, #orvieto day 5 #Italy sketched

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day three, an #Italian paradise called Orvieto

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one incredible view here in #Orvieto, Umbria, Italy

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to go along with a yellow brick road

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shot taken sometime back on a holiday in NZ. They say a NZer can do much with a piece of No.8 wire, and here we see what extravagance can be given to a simple road sign. Place branding doesn't come more surprising...

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Williamsburg NYC snow year 2000

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Yesterdays snow pic out my window here in Paris reminded me of this shot I took out the window of the JMZ train in Williamsburg heading into Manhattan back in the winter of 2000 

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Manhatten on my mind-sketch

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after yesterdays clear and clean NZ summer memory, today is a NYC state of mind. Unfortunately my travel plans are confined to brisk walks between Goncourt and Gambetta... could be worse!

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NZ christmas tree

Pohutukawa Tree, here in the depths of a freezing Paris this image is my favourite stock image of the moment...
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