Photos

Yet another picture from the set made through my nocturnal stroll in the garden of "Les Tuileries" and the "Louvre" palace. It is the "Arc du Carrousel" situated on the "Place du Carroussel" between "La Cour Napoleon" with the Louvre's Pyramid and the garden of "Les Tuileries". It is part of the "Voie Triomphale" (the Triumph Way).

La Voie Triomphale is the monumental axis of Paris. It is 9 kilometers long, some says it start from the Pyramid, I say it start from fountain in the middle of the "Place Carrée" of the old "Louvre". It cross the "Cour Napoléon" and the Pyramid and goes under the "Arc du Carrousel". It follows the central alley of the "Jardin des Tuileries" then cross "Place de la Concorde" and its "Obélisque". The axis climb the "l?avenue des Champs-Élysées" and when it gets to the "Place de l'Etoile" (or "Place Charles de Gaulle"), goes between the legs of the "Arc de Triomphe", paying its tribute to the unknown Soldier fallen in vain for an absurd and stupid war. From "l'Etoile", the imaginary line goes down the "Avenue de la Grande Armée" till the limit of the city and, without a look for the architectural absurdity of the congress centre, the line cross the invisible gate only betrayed by its name "Porte Maillot". The flight continue to the west the suburban town of "Neuilly" and through the sky scrappers of the financial district "Défense". Some says the axis ends under the gigantic "Arche de la Défense", I say it only goes through the Arch and goes on and on trough the French provinces, oceans and far-away lands.

I took this night picture still with my old Fujifilm MX-2700 (I say "my old" because the friend I borrowed the camera from bought a new and so gave me its old one). And as for the other picture (see them here and there), I had to spend a lot of time using NeatImage and Photoshop to suppress grain, to adjust exposure and colours with levels and curves and to enhanced the contrast with "contrast masking".