Tower Segment
A portion of the Eiffel Tower just before midnight.
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Stairs and Landings
I don’t remember the station, but it’s a long way under ground.
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1006
Crumbling facades, and on the left, the jagged opening of a collapsed wall where a house once was.
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Forehand
Nadal returns a shot to fellow Spaniard David Ferrer in the 2012 French Open. A year after I took this shot, Nadal beat Ferrer again today and won his eighth French Open title.
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Walled City
A view from the roadway leading to the island.
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Ferrer Serving Nadal
I was lucky. I didn’t know much about tennis. And even less about how to get a ticket to one of the sport’s premiere events. But sitting in my Paris hotel room about 6pm, one year ago today, I figured it was time for a change. I didn’t know who was playing. Didn’t care.
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Unknown
There are 2048 burials at the Canadian War Cemetery in Beny-sur-Mer, the majority of them Canadian. And many of these Canadians were from the 3rd Canadian Division, who died in the invasion on June 6 and the subsequent advance towards the key strategic town of Caen.
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Lost Aviator
We were nearing the end of the tour, when the guide stopped walking. A few people opened umbrellas against the drizzling rain. The group gathered around her, leaning in to hear another story.
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Commonwealth Graves
There are 4,648 soldiers buried in the Bayeux War Cemetery, the largest Commonwealth cemetery of the Second World War in France. There was little fighting in Bayeux, despite its strategic importance to the invasion of Normandy, so the burials come from fighting in surrounding regions.
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Barbs
Seen from atop the 30m cliffs, the surf crashes into the tip of Pointe du Hoc below. The barbed wire is to keep visitors from exploring the sheer cliff face, but in 1944, it was used by the Germans to keep invading Allied forces from advancing from the sea and capturing the huge guns emplaced here. That invasion came on the morning of June 6, 1944, at great cost to the Allies, who did not know that the guns had been moved just two days prior.
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Preflight
In the early morning light, a beautifully maintained C-47 sits on the flightline of the Cherbourg airport. We would later see it spooling up for its practice flights, in advance of the WWII-related ceremonies around the region that week.
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1 + 4
Trees along the walk to Mont Saint Michel.
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Tube Sections
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.
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16
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.
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Straight Up
At Patapsco Valley State Park, near Baltimore’s airport.
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Ceiling Light
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.
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Low Tide Walk
Mont Saint Michel, France
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Peeling House
From the east side of Baltimore, near Johns Hopkins Hospital.
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Green Falls
From the walkway atop the Devil’s Throat portion of the Iguazu Falls, looking south at the Argentine side.
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Luggage Cart
A single shot from my first attempt at a tilt-shift sequence. The idea was to test techniques (intervals, shutter speed, etc.) for what will eventually become a tilt-shift movie. Shot from the roof of Washington DC’s Union Station parking garage in the fall of 2010.
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