A blast from the past

This is an old image of Paris that I took back in the days before I had a digital camera. I believe that I was standing on the Allée de Cygnes, a narrow island in the Seine River, looking back across the Pont de Bir-Hakeim toward the Eiffel Tower. This had to be taken sometime in the 1990s.

The southwestern side of the Eiffel Tower. The bridge was completed in 1905.

The bridge is one of my favorites in Paris because the métro runs along the second level after emerging from a tunnel on the right bank. The views of the tower as you ride across the river are spectacular.

I scanned the original 35mm color slide and worked on the contrast a little in Photoshop. If you dig through the archives of this blog you can find a lot of my old Paris slides, digitized and enhanced with Photoshop to give them a second life.

The days are dark and dreary right now, punctuated here and there by an occasional ray of sun (as if to tease us). Whenever I venture out, either on an errand or to walk the dog, it's either rainy or foggy or otherwise too dark to take photos. But, looking on the bright (ha!) side... the days are starting to get longer and we will have sun eventually. January always seems to drag along slowly.