Thursday, February 3, 2011

Jardin des Tuileries - en hiver



I do not know what pleased me more...

The solitude of Tuileries in winter or the little tracks on the snow-dusted frozen pond...

All is quiet in le Jardin des Tuileries

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30 comments:

  1. I can feel the quiet in your photo - softly quiet. I wonder what made that little track?

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  2. Truly beautiful, Genie...and so Parisian.

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  3. Beautiful! I love this quiet atmosphere. I never saw the Jardin des Tuileries this way.

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  4. I love the little tracks! and the two statues on each side seem to be practising ice skating! :)

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  5. oh that looks coold, more I like it with sunshine, big hugh Kathrin

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  6. This place is awesome in every time of the year! :)
    Amazing shot!
    Léia

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  7. Beautiful any time of year! The tracks are the icing on the cake.

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  8. Peacefully beautiful -- love the glimmer of lights on the right and the touch of green -- they pop from the white stillness. Notice that the statue on the left looks like he's ice skating on the frozen pond. Ahhh le sigh ...

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  9. Great photo. I love the way you caught that light.

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  10. I predict a little seagull made those tiny tracks. Beautiful.
    V

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  11. Très jolie photo d'hiver!
    Le jardin des Tuileris m'a inspiré dans l'un de mes romans:

    http://richard-moisan.blogspot.com/2009_01_01_archive.html

    Bonne journée!

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  12. This is really good. It has everything a good photo should have. You have talent. Your camera likes you.

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  13. Genie, it is so nice to find a new photo on your blog each day, each one different and, more often than not, taken with an eye I will never have. Thank you!

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  14. Wonderful photo. I thought at first that it was a B&W and then I saw the spots of colour. A really nice shot.

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  15. See, when you get here late it's all been said! I'll just add that I think you captured a special moment in this beautiful garden.

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  16. It looks beautiful, almost better than in reality, and I should know living here and going to there often.
    Greetings from Paris!

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  17. A wonderful shot and a wonderful place!

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  18. I love the tracks too! What a great shot. This garden looks good in most any season, I think.

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  19. Dianne -- Since we do not have snow where I live, I am always taken by how it absorbs noise... very nice

    Bibi -- Merci, mon amie

    Vreni -- It was almost worth the cold! Just kidding, it is beautiful in all seasons and very much worth it.

    Bergson -- Merci, je l'aime aussi

    Malyss -- The tracks were what first caught my eye... I thought that they were ice skating too!

    Kathrin -- It was cold... Merci, mon amie!

    Léia -- I want to take this same shot in warmer, greener weather, but I think you are right

    Carol -- Merci, the dusting of snow did look like powdered sugar

    Marie -- I think that the glimmer of lights is the carrousel... I almost made this b/w but the green was a nice soft touch... merci

    Harriet -- Thank you, dear friend.

    Tammy -- Sweet, COLD serenity - hehe

    Virginia -- Seagull? Hummm, not sure... merci

    Richard -- Je voudrais le lire... merci!

    Steven -- Many thanks... I'm glad my camera likes me... I feel not quite right when I don't have it with me

    Evan -- Thanks for your kind words, but you, my friend, have a discerning eye for composition and perspective... You are the best in churches

    Loree -- It is important to let the scene dictate the outcome... If I want to see lots of green and colors I will have to come back in the spring/summer/fall... merci!

    ciel -- The tracks do it for me too. I'll have to look at a few other shots to see what type of bird it is (like I could tell!) but it was not a duck

    Alexa -- I always appreciate your kind words, mon amie...

    European Chic -- I think that everyone who reads my blog and loves Paris just turned a shade of vert -- I hope that you will visit often as it makes me happy when Parisians feel my photos are authentic... Merci.

    James -- Merci... I hope that you get to see snow on your next visit!

    Halcyon -- There were intricate tracks made by not more than two "birds" in several sections... wish that I could have snapped one as s/he walked! Merci.

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  20. I love the tracks in the pond but the overall view is great!

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  21. What I like best is the way melting ice and snow creates pretty darker patterns. And, the paired statues doing whatever they are doing . . . skating? racing? Very peaceful image, Genie.

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  22. Randy -- Merci, the formal layout of this pond is perfect... the tracks just show that it is frozen

    Jack -- Merci, and you would be the ice/snow expert in my book! I think that the statues must be running, but with the ice on the pond, it does appear that they are skating...

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  23. C'est vraiment superbe... Et tellement inattendu, les Tuileries gelées... On dirait quelque marais perdu en Sologne...

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  24. Nothing to do with how I remember this. Fantastic!

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  25. The tracks are form an interesting pattern.

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  26. Coldly beautiful or beautifully cold? Both!

    Liz

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  27. Now this LOOKS COLD!!!

    wv: reali, reali, cold!!!

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Merci for your comments!