| Paris, France | ...Back |
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| Year 2000 Celebration | |||||
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| ourview.jpg | Jenn and me with our incredible view for the fireworks. We showed up 6 hours early to secure our prime realestate. | police.jpg | Hundreds of French police officers marching to take their positions before the festivities | ||
| crowd.jpg | Showing up as early as we did sure paid off. We were first in lign right up against the Seine with nobody in front of us. However, here is one angle of the five million people standing behind us. | broken.jpg | After some 3 years of counting down to the new century the clock on the Eiffel tower broke with 5 hours remaining | ||
| explosion1.jpg | The fourth picture in the series above | explosion2.jpg | The last picture in the series above | ||
| explosion3.jpg | The fifth picture in the series above | 2000.jpg | Several minutes after all the fireworks, the countdown clock on the tower came back on displaying "AN 2000" (AN being the French word for year) | ||
| eify2k.jpg | Me and Jenn with the 2000 on the tower in the background | ouch2.jpg | One toast too many | ||
| ouch.jpg | Some people weren't quite so happy towards the end of the night | ||||
| Arc de Triomphe | |||||
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| arcatnight.jpg | Beautiful shot of the Arc at night | spiral.jpg | Looking up the spiral staircase inside the Arc. Jenn is peering over the rail. | ||
| usarc.jpg | Jenn and me on top of the arc with the Eiffel Tower in the background | moonhold.jpg | Jenn holding on to the moon | ||
| champs.jpg | The Champs Elyssee lit with the holiday lights | ||||
| My Home | |||||
Looking into my studio from the balcony
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| front.jpg | The front of my apartment complex | home2.jpg | View inside my studio out the balcony | ||
| elevator.jpg | Me, my Dad, my Aunt Billie, my Mom, and Jenn all squeezed in my elevator. | homeview.jpg | View off my balcony | ||
| kitchen.jpg | It's not huge, but it serves the purpose. | streetend.jpg | View of the Eiffel tower from the end of my street | ||
| Catacombs | |||||
The catacombs
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| catacombs.jpg | Adam, me, and Anurag beside a wall of bones | cross.jpg | A cross of skulls in a wall of bones | ||
| adam.jpg | Big Adam walking through little underground tunnel | wall.jpg | Humbling wall of bones | ||
| aja.jpg | Adam, me, and Anurag in the tunnels leading to the catacombs | aja2.jpg | Adam, me, and Anurag kneeling in front of another wall of bones | ||
| mort.jpg | Me laying on a pedestal | skull2.jpg | Close-up of one of the skulls | ||
| skull.jpg | Another close-up of one of the skulls | ja_bones.jpg | Me and Anurag sitting in the catacombs | ||
| Sacre Coeur | |||||
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 Anurag, Adam and me standing on the stairs leading up to Sacre Coeur
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| family.jpg | My family sitting on a bench | ||||
| sac.jpg | My family and me in front of the church | ||||
| winecafe.jpg | Me, my Dad, my Mom, my Aunt Billie, Jenn, Erika, and Jenna all drinking the Beaujolais Nouveau in a cafe near Sacre Coeur | ||||
| Notre Dame | |||||
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Kristin and me standing out front of the Notre Dame cathedral
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| kcandles.jpg | Kristin blowing out other people's prayer candles | ||||
| xseine.jpg | The cathedral from across the Seine River | ||||
| La Defense | ||||
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View from sitting at my desk in La Defense.
The hollow building is named La Grande Arch.
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| skyline.jpg | Skyline of La Defense taken from the top of La Grande Arch. My office is the second building on the left. | |||
| Around Paris | |||||
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Me with the perfect Parisian Christmas tree
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| kjseine.jpg | Kristin and me next to the Seine | ||||
| chef.jpg | Helge preparing dinner for Pierre and me | ||||
| ingrave.jpg | I stuck my camera in a hole of a grave in Pere Lachaise cemitery and this is what came out | ||||
| potwoman.jpg | When I saw this classy-looking lady on the metro and noticed she had gold-plated marijuana leaf hanging around her neck...I had to snap a shot for proof | ||||
| sewer.jpg | The Parisian Sewers | wine.jpg | My family and me at another cafe | ||
| church.jpg | I took this picture of a ghost in a church next to my studio | crazy.jpg | Sometimes the panhandlers get creative attracting attention for money. This one set up a moc concert with a grand conclusion of whacking a bananna. | ||
| passe.jpg | Quite an interesting movie advertisement | ||||
| nouveau.jpg | More Boujolais Nouveau | ||||
| bar.jpg | Me with my family in a bar in St. Michelle drinking more Boujolais Nouveau | keustache.jpg | Kristin in front of St. Eustache Cathedral | ||
