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| The left image used in the panorama. It's a combination of two
exposures. I don't usually post my fodder images in the middle of the
album, but thought this was so remarkable that I should make an
exception. Incidentally, the two fodder images used to create this
image are pretty good on their own, emphasizing different aspects of the
scene. They're posted near the end of the album but are nonetheless
worth looking at.
| Likewise, the right image used in the panorama. It's a combination of
two exposures. Again, those source images, posted at the end of the
album, are worth inspecting.
| I photographed each window in chronological/clockwise order, beginning
with this one representing Genesis.
| Exodus.
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| Numbers. (But, frankly, I didn't pay attention to their names or what they conveyed.)
| Continuing clock-wise around the chapel: The Book of Joshua.
| The whole set of windows around the altar. High-resolution. I made
this image by combining two different exposures. The central window is The Passion of Christ.
| The Books of Judith and Job.
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| The Book of Esther.
| The Book of Kings.
| A window supposedly conveying the history of the relics of the
Passion.
| Sainte Chapelle's Rose Window, title The Apocalypse. An
excellent high-resolution image. I combined three different
exposures to create this one.
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| When the sun came out, colored lights played on the floor.
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| Elsewhere on Ile de La Cite
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| If you look very closely, you'll see that Pont Neuf bridge has signs
directing boat traffic.
| A random nice building on Ile de La Cite.
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| Lunch at Home
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Part of lunch at home: oyster mushroom lasagna that we picked up at the
market the previous day. Positively delicious! Perhaps the freshest
pasta I've tasted in a lasagna, plus mushrooms that were so tasty that
when they squirted out of the lasagna, we spread them on bread.
We also had a baguette spread with "caviar d'aubergines" (i.e., baba
ghannoush or some eggplant mash). That's what's at the top of the
picture.
We accompanied these with a cucumber salad that Di Yin made.
| Another part of lunch: ham-and-brie sandwiches.
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We also had leftover cooked salad from an earlier night, to which I
added more blue cheese, surprising myself and Di Yin.
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| Pompidou: Outside
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The huge Centre Pompidou, home to the National Museum of Modern Art, and
the plaza in front of it. Note the huge escalator.
I took this
picture the previous day (May 15th).
| The street-facing side of the Pompidou. It looks like a building turned
inside-out. Indeed, the pipes are color-coded: blue air-conditioning
ducts, green water pipes, yellow electricity lines, red people-movers
(escalators & elevators), and white air vents.
I took this picture on May
22th when the sun was shining brightly.
| Ibid, just taken on May 12th. (The reason I have so many pictures of
the Pompidou is because it's about a block-and-a-half from our
apartment so we walked by it many times over the trip.)
| The plaza in front of the Pompidou. I think the white pipes ought to
blow giant bubbles.
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| Di Yin riding up the Pompidou's escalator.
| Looking west from the top of the Pompidou at Paris's skyline, Saint
Eustache church (left), and Sacre Coeur (right).
| A panoramic video of Paris's skyline that rotates counter-clockwise from
north-west to south-west. The Eiffel Tower is visible two-thirds of the
way through the video.
| The Sacre Coeur, as seen via my camera's 10x zoom.
I visited the Sacre Coeur and took more
pictures of it on May 21st.
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A close-up of Saint Eustache church.
I walked by and photographed it
at ground level earlier, on May 14th.
| Looking down the edge of the plaza and the buildings/skyline beyond.
| Looking down at the plaza in front of the Pompidou.
| The Eiffel Tower, again using my camera's powerful zoom.
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| A panoramic video of Paris's skyline that rotates counter-clockwise from
south-west to south-east.
| Looking down at Stravinsky fountain and Saint Merry church. On May
15th, I photographed both the fountain and the church from ground level.
| Tour Saint Jacques, which I saw on May 14th.
| Notre Dame Cathedral, with the Pantheon on the background. I visited
Notre Dame earlier this day; I visited the Pantheon
on May 17th.
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