While on the bus tour across Europe, we made a quick stop in Nice for breakfast and a beach walk. The beach is super popular, but the only bad thing is there is no sand. It’s one of those beaches with big rocks that makes walking a little challenging, and certainly not smooth enough to lay out a beach towel and relax. Maybe the French people have inflatable things to lay on out there. I don’t know… I don’t understand the French. 🙂

Along the Beach in Nice

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• Date Taken2017-05-01 13:13:07
• CameraX1D
• Camera MakeHasselblad
• Exposure Time1/500
• Aperture8
• ISO200
• Focal Length30.0 mm
• Flash
• Exposure ProgramManual
• Exposure Bias

While on the European Photo Tour, we stopped in Normandy for the evening while on the way to London. We parked the bus in a car park and I jumped out to walk along the coast to enjoy the sunset. It turned out to be a rather beautiful one. I took a lot of photos of the old monastery, but some of the best light was in this direction.

A sunset in Mont-Saint Michel

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• Date Taken2017-05-10 21:43:39
• CameraX1D
• Camera MakeHasselblad
• Exposure Time64
• Aperture4
• ISO400
• Focal Length30.0 mm
• Flash
• Exposure ProgramManual
• Exposure Bias

After we finished our photo walk in Barcelona, we decided to take the bus to Nice, France, to have brunch. That’s a cool thing about a tour bus, is you can kinda make up plans on the fly and the driver will take you there overnight. Then, you wake up, and suddenly you’re there in the French Riviera! It’s not exactly as easy as I make it sound… but it is worth a little extra work.

After Brunch in Nice

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• Date Taken2017-05-01 12:36:01
• CameraX1D
• Camera MakeHasselblad
• Exposure Time1/2000
• Aperture5.6
• ISO200
• Focal Length30.0 mm
• Flash
• Exposure ProgramManual
• Exposure Bias

A few times each night, they alight this super hardcore searchlight from the top of the Eiffel Tower and it scans the skyline. Getting a solid shot of it wasn’t the easiest thing in the world because I had to make sure the shutter speed was fast enough but keep the ISO high enough to make sure you could get all the rest of the light. Okay, camera nerd talk over.

More from Paris

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• Date Taken2017-05-08 23:10:33
• CameraX1D
• Camera MakeHasselblad
• Exposure Time2
• Aperture5.6
• ISO200
• Focal Length30.0 mm
• Flash
• Exposure ProgramManual
• Exposure Bias

I don’t know if this is a new installation or not but I’ve never seen it until my most recent trip to Paris. It’s less than a 5-minute walk from the Louvre and I guess I just never walked this way before. I do like how a lot of the art in the world now is interactive… I probably got a lot of that appreciation from Burning Man. Sometimes they look kind of dangerous… I can only imagine the injuries!

Interactive Art in Paris

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• Date Taken2017-05-08 16:05:58
• CameraX1D
• Camera MakeHasselblad
• Exposure Time1/60
• Aperture8
• ISO100
• Focal Length30.0 mm
• Flash
• Exposure ProgramManual
• Exposure Bias

After we left Monet’s home in Giverny to continue the road trip across Europe, we stopped here in Nice, along the French Riviera. I remembered this rooftop restaurant from about 20 years before when my dad had brought me out to this area. It was fun to take new friends there to experience it as well.

Stopping for Breakfast in Nice, France

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• Date Taken2017-05-01 11:19:59
• CameraX1D
• Camera MakeHasselblad
• Exposure Time1/500
• Aperture11
• ISO200
• Focal Length30.0 mm
• Flash
• Exposure ProgramManual
• Exposure Bias

As I say in the video below, I think bullfighting is one of the more inhumane sports in the world for sure. I certainly don’t endorse it with sharing this photo… but, hey, I was there. And it was kind of a cool visual palette, so I took a photo!

After the Bullfight

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• Date Taken2010-09-18 17:58:04
• CameraNIKON D3X
• Camera MakeNikon
• Exposure Time1/6
• Aperture8
• ISO100
• Focal Length15.0 mm
• FlashNo Flash
• Exposure ProgramAperture-priority AE
• Exposure Bias

Not too long after they cleaned up the blood from the rather inhumane bullfighting, they converted this whole place into a concert venue for Sting! We went a bit later to hear one of the coolest concerts I’ve ever experienced… that Sting… what a dude, eh?

The Roman Bullfighting Amphitheatre

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• Date Taken2010-09-18 17:28:53
• CameraNIKON D3X
• Camera MakeNikon
• Exposure Time1/8
• Aperture11
• ISO50
• Focal Length14.0 mm
• FlashNo Flash
• Exposure ProgramAperture-priority AE
• Exposure Bias

It’s a fun challenge to walk around the Eiffel Tower and try to get photos without tourists in them. I mean, getting some tourists in the shot is not a bad thing at all, since it kind of goes with the territory. In most cases, I would recommend finding some shrubbery and trees and getting the camera down quite low to the ground with a wide-angle lens.

Paris at Dusk

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• Date Taken2010-09-16 18:19:57
• CameraNIKON D3X
• Camera MakeNikon
• Exposure Time4
• Aperture16
• ISO100
• Focal Length17.0 mm
• FlashNo Flash
• Exposure ProgramAperture-priority AE
• Exposure Bias

I took this one with quite a wide-angle lens, but I like how everything is a bit warped and strange. I believe I took this back in the Nikon days with my 14-24mm lens. Man… that still is one of my favorite lenses of all time and I wish I had the equivalent on the Sony!

The Louvre on a Summer Day

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• Date Taken2010-09-16 11:40:02
• CameraNIKON D3X
• Camera MakeNikon
• Exposure Time1/1000
• Aperture8
• ISO100
• Focal Length14.0 mm
• FlashNo Flash
• Exposure ProgramAperture-priority AE
• Exposure Bias-1