I do recommend you visit the weekly photo magazine Left Bank Lens from Paris.  The photographer, Don Smith, has been trading email with me all week.  A lot of this has been technical – he knows the Nikon D70 and I am just getting the hang of using it.  And we chat, electronically, about web design and photo editing software.  This is of little consequence to the readers of Just Above Sunset, of course.

But his photos of Paris are amazing.  Below is a sampling – and I strongly suggest you subscribe.  Every week you'll get six new images directly from Paris, shot by a professional photographer with over thirty years experience – and a fellow who actually lives in Paris.  That means you’ll get twenty-four new images each month, directly from Paris.  For those of us who have been there repeatedly and only get back occasionally, this is good deal.

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Well the first is not Paris, actually.  Imagine you’re in a region called Gers - think fois gras and Armagnac and you get the idea.  You’re at the Marche au Gras (market of fat) and looking at this fellow who has just sold his last two live roosters.  This fellow is so… French?

And the Jardin des Tuileries in the middle of winter.  One December a few years ago, in the middle of a long walk back from the big stores up on boulevard Haussmann back to my hotel across the street from Les Deux Magots, laden with Christmas gifts for friends and family back here in Los Angeles, I plopped down in one of these chairs and lit a pipe.  Maybe one of these very chairs.  A bad idea in the late afternoon dank cold.  I quickly found a café and got a double espresso.  What was I thinking?  But Don’s photo is spot on.

Oh, there are many, many more.  Visit the weekly photo magazine Left Bank Lens from Paris.  Explore.  The pet cemetery is spooky, and amazing.