Backwards in time

An open topic for Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge this week gives me an excuse to post this image.

It was taken in the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, which is housed in a former mainline railway station. This is the inside of the clock tower. I was praying that everybody else would get out of the shot before this gentleman decided to move on and spoil the composition.

Clockface

This is what it looks like from the outside:

Clockface3

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Open Topic

Bridgework

This photograph is a crop from a photograph I took from a bateau-mouche cruising down the River Seine in Paris and is of the underside of a bridge. It seems to fulfil the ‘lines and angles’ requirement of  Cee’s challenge for this week.

It’s an interesting optical illusion that, although the image is a perfect rectangle the right vertical looks longer than the left.

Lines&Angles

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Lines and Angles

Weekly Photo Challenge: Twist

Another staircase, this time from a hotel in Paris (which, fortunately, was also equipped with a lift).

staircase