Peter Tarach - Part 5

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  • The Louvre – Ancient Civilizations

  • This will be the last of the Louvre images as Im sure you all have seen enough by now. It’s time to get back to the city itself!




























  • The Louvre – Statues

  • This set of photos highlights the many statues that can be found at the Louvre. There are endless hallways littered with stone figures, heads, and other creatures that if you wanted you could spend a day walking around trying to see everything. Here’s my condensed version.
























    Oh my poor feet, all that walking has put them in a world of hurt.




  • The Louvre – Paris’ Most Famous Museum

  • What is a trip to Paris without visiting the Louvre? There’s a reason why so many people visit this museum, simply put, you won’t find anything like it anywhere else in the world. The layout and sheer vastness of the place are worth the visit alone.



    The entrance way is a clear pyramid that from the outside doesn’t look like much but down below there’s a vast maze of hallways filled with priceless art and statues.


    A bit off to the right of the entrance was this monument. I’m still at a loss as to how many statues, buildings, and churchs are crafted with such precision and detail.


    Back inside the pyramid, a look up reveals staggering amounts of glass and cables holding it all in place.


    This is what a corner of the main entrance looks like. When I say this place is huge it is hard to fathom until you visit it.


    Our first stop inside was predictably the most popular one, the Mona Lisa. Swarms of people push and shove to see the painting up close.


    Cameras ready? Shoot!


    And there she is. I wasn’t expecting much from the painting truthfully and with all the people around I just snapped a photo and turned and burned.


    I don’t feel it’s necessary to caption all the images I took inside the Louvre so here’s a set of them that really don’t need explaining.






    There was an art class going on in one of the sections where students were trying to recreate the drawings.





    Instead of taking wide shots of the paintings I thought why not get into the details so you can really admire the amazing work that was laid onto canvas.














  • Paris – Walking Around

  • By far the best experience in any city is to walk around and get a sense of what it has to offer. Dive deep into the alleyways and cobble stone roads, which reward you with a unique landscape and culture not found on the main streets.


    Take this ping pong table that I stumbled upon on a random side street as an example. You aren’t going to find anything like this off a busy intersection.



    What remains of a broken paddle, found on the ping pong table. Competition must be fierce!


    A street sign sticker bombed.


    Reflective glass makes a great chance for a self portrait.


    A 1987 Chrysler Voyager spotted on the streets of Paris? Unbelievable! Not only was this the most popular people hauler in the late 80’s but one of the very first cars I drove to high school. It must have been imported long ago and the owner has maintained it remarkably well.


    A highly congested one way street infront of the Louvre Museum.


    I always thought the Smart Car to be a bust in America as you don’t really see too many of them around. In Paris, the opposite is true. They are everywhere and for good reason. Check out this parking setup, one car would normally fit but two Smarts do and they match rather nicely.


    Corner buildings are so cool, why don’t we have more of them?



    I’m pretty sure this is an opera house.


    While we had lunch I spotted this poster that had what looks to be the lead character from A clock work orange and Selma Hayek. It must be some kind of play?


    Another immensely cool side street that was littered with Asian style restaurants.


    Paris is known for its sweets and after seeing these I had to get up and find some chocolate. Mmmm chocolate…







  • Inspire Yourself
  • Typically I don’t post videos on my blog, that’s what my other site is all about but after watching this short documentary called Influences, which I have to thank Will Roegge for posting on his blog, I had to post it up here as well.


    I hope it inspires and influences you.


    INFLUENCERS FULL VERSION from R+I creative on Vimeo.



  • Paris – A stroll around the city

  • Like almost every other tourist, I enjoy walking around a city seeing what it has to offer but I take photos of everything I deem worthwhile and interesting. It’s probably why photography is so fascinating to me. I can picture an image in my head before I snap it. Paris brought out almost too many of those images in my head and I had to contain myself from not over doing it. I have enough photos to make 10 + posts on here, which could very well end up happening.


    When we (Jonathon Wong and I) exited the subway, we were greeted by a monument with a water fountain below.


    Gold, oh so wonderful gold!


    If I remember correctly this was a court house. yet again more gold.


    Yes that’s a real traffic light. It’s mounted on a post at that height because the larger traffic lights are placed almost behind the white line on the road rendering them unviewable by the front row of cars.


    I present to you Notre Dame.


    And the pigeons that surround the grounds.


    Architectural bliss no?


    Inside the church, only then can one appreciate the sheer size of the building.


    Mass was being conducted as hundreds of people walked through touring the church. I think this chap was talking a bit of a snooze since he didn’t move for quite a bit. My mom would have slapped me before my head was down and my eyes closed. Enjoy it while you can buddy!


    Here are just a few of the many sights to see inside the church.




    A miniature model of Notre Dame was almost as impressive as the real thing.




    This was another miniature display. I think it depicted the building of Notre Dame.


    Hang on!


    Stoke that fire.


    Once mass was completed, the altar was available for better viewing.


    A taste of what we were dealing with inside the church. People congestion.


    After a tour of the inside we decided to wait in line to check out the towers, a long and winding walk up many flights of stairs was the only way to the top.


    The view was well worth it though. Here’s a Panoramic shot of the city. (high rez version available here


    From the other side. Another stitched together image (this one poorly done).


    There wasn’t much to see inside the towers other than a big bell. I found the entrance ways to be more interesting.


    The people look surreal from so high up above.


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