Terminal
The terminal end of Terminal 2E at Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport.
The terminal end of Terminal 2E at Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport.
Looking up the inside of the Arc de Triomphe.
The steps of the new national library, Bibliothèque nationale de France. This photo was taken a 90-degree turn to the left from The Newest Bridge.
Urban Decay from Queen Street East in downtown Toronto.
A portion of the Eiffel Tower just before midnight.
Crumbling facades, and on the left, the jagged opening of a collapsed wall where a house once was.
A view from the roadway leading to the island.
Years ago, before a trip to New York City, I read about Donald Judd’s studio and efforts to preserve its contents and open it to visitors. Yesterday’s New York Times has a beautifully written story about Judd, his work and those restoration efforts, now complete.
One of the many tracts of abandoned row homes in the city where 16 of 16 houses on a block are boarded up. Block after block. Street after street.
Today’s freight train explosion happened just a few kilometers from where I live. I didn’t hear or feel the blast, but those exact same tracks run along the end of my block and the train would have passed by me a few minutes later on its way south. So it got me thinking about trains.
From the east side of Baltimore, near Johns Hopkins Hospital.
The site of an ancient windmill sits in a field near the coast, in the Basse-Normandie region in northwestern France. It’s just a few kilometers from the D-Day beaches. There are folks who catalogue the various windmills in the region, but I don’t know any more about this one.
Near the entrance to the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto.
Looking east across the city from outside the Basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourvière.
One of the blocks near Johns Hopkins Hospital where every single home is abandoned and boarded up to some degree. A common sight around the city.
The lower east tip of Manhattan, as seen from the Brooklyn-Governors Island Ferry.
A year in photos. With this post, I am relaunching my site after about a year away. In that time, there were many developments, many destinations and many photos. This shot comes from the incredible, bird-shaped Satolas TGV station at the Lyon Saint Exupery Airport, in Lyon, France. Designed by Santiago Calatrava, this building is the nexus between land and sky, plane, car and train. Going forward, there will be much more. A year away from blogging, and a growing archive of stories and pictures, leads me to a year of posting. I’ve come full circle. And with it, day one of 365. A year in photos.
On the eastern side of Paris, near the Gare de Austerlitz, is Paris’ newest bridge. Named the Passerelle Simone-de-Beauvoir, in honour of the French existentialist author, philosopher and theorist, the award-winning 190m bridge spans the Seine at the site of the new national library.
For my first blog post of 2012, a return to familiar and loved subjects: train stations, train travel, Paris and, more broadly, Europe. I’ve returned to Paris after a 6 year absence from the city, and although I now have digital photo gear, I’m resisting temptation to reshoot old favourites. Well, mostly resisting.
Seen looking east from the High Line Park, somewhere near 18th Street.