Pink Martian Sunset ~ Coucher de soleil martien en rose © 2015 Chantal-Hélène Wagner The sky today at sunset was a glorious palette of reds, pinks, blues and lavenders. I spent some twenty minutes observing different corners of the...
Paris Photo Archives
Simply Spring III - Fish and Kitsch {Paris Photo}
Fish and Kitsch - Easter Sunday © 2015 Chantal-Hélène Wagner Happy Easter to those who celebrate it. We're turning to sunlight in water and on goldfish scales as symbols of longer days and brighter temps as well as a...
Back to the 90s Aquatics - Looking Forward to the 2010s Aerials {Trend Alert} {Paris Photo}
La Seine - Ciel et Eau © Chantal-Hélène Wagner From Aquatics to Aerials By Chant Wagner For some weeks now, I've been noticing a return to the famed evanescent textures of the 1990s in the roll-call of new launches....
Simply Spring II ~ Simplement le Printemps II {Paris Photo}
Cherubs, Flowers & Clouds ~ Chérubin, Fleurs et Nuages (II) in the Series Simply Spring © 2015 Chantal-Hélène Wagner How's the weather in Paris? The sun is back today. So glad......
Simply Spring ~ Simplement le Printemps {Paris Photo}
Simply Spring ~ Simplement le printemps © 2015 Chantal-Hélène Wagner On a rainy day, you appreciate more being able to look back at some vernal light even if just in pixels......
Garçonne de Café {Paris Photo}
Garçonne de Café © 2015 Chantal-Hélène Wagner A woman waitress wears the typical gear of a garçon de café albeit keeping it feminine with adpated clothes and touches of jewelry and lipstick......
When Your Biggest Worry Is... {Paris Photo}
When Your Biggest Worry Is...© 2015 Chantal-Hélène Wagner Everybody is concentrating on the shoot, which is visibly for a pair of jeans to look its best in the light of a sunny afternoon......
Then & Now - The Tudors vs. The Kardashians {Paris Photo}
Split Screen Reality II © 2015 Chantal-Hélène Wagner Advertisings at the jardin du Luxembourg show the current exhibit on the portraits of the Tudors at the palais du Luxembourg, while a roll-on subway ad repeatedly flashes an ad for...
Cyberpunk Couple at Dusk {Paris Photo}
Cyberpunk Couple at Dusk © 2015 Chantal-Hélène Wagner On the first day of spring in Paris when you look pleasantly at pink trees in bloom as classic confirmation of spring, you can also happen on street scenes like that...
Red Patent Leather & Neons {Paris Photo}
Woman with Red Shoes at Night © 2015 Chantal-Hélène Wagner From the capital city of perfume and fashion, more street photos......
Scented Quote of the Day, from Colette - On Lilacs {Paris Photo}:
Lilacs & Elastic Bands ~ Lilas et élastiques © 2014 Chantal-Hélène Wagner "Lilac before it flowers, when it is still but small leaves shaped like aces of spades and minuscule promises of thyrses, lilac discreetly smells of beetles until...
Woman with Turban ~ Femme avec Turban (2015) {Paris Photo}
Woman with Turban ~ Femme avec Turban © 2015 Chantal-Hélène Wagner What I am reminded of when I happened on this scene in Paris - it was not as easy as it sounds - was how, in another corner...
Group of Younger People - Lighting {Paris Photo}
Group of Younger People ~Groupe de jeunes gens © 2015 Chantal-Hélène Wagner It looked like an interesting grouping by age class all in marine blue in the morning sun. I often pay attention to groups of younger people no...
Who is Looking at What? ~ Qui regarde quoi ? {Paris Photo}
Who is Looking at What? ~ Qui regarde quoi ? © 2015 Chantal-Hélène Wagner One of the things I note about this picture is how, save most obviously for the young woman whose dress code is contemporary - people...
The Stairway for the Dead ~ L'Escalier pour les morts {Paris Photo}
The Stairway for the Dead - L'Escalier pour les morts © 2015 Chantal-Hélène Wagner In a landscape dedicated to the dead, the living can look strange and at times, ghost-like......