I recently resolved that it's probably simpler and better suited to my overwhelming coughing illness to set aside some of my more visual projects, like drawing and photography. Sitting at home for larger portions of the day made me more inward, and perhaps less inspired to comment so much, visually or otherwise, on the thriving city all around me. Yesterday I could hardly even imagine what I might want to photograph, or what kind of thing I could show you about this city that I haven't shown twice already.
But I am slowly getting better. And today, finding myself wandering the city with at least a little more energy, I found myself once again struck by idiosyncratic moments of interest and loveliness. And for the first time in a week or two the city felt like a canvas again, an expression of my heart, or a story to share with you.
We were over at the Liberation Market today, and passing by the fish selling area, and seeing the back of the old Gare de Sud train station, which I find delightfully lovely even if tragically it is not a train station anymore, I couldn't resist pulling out my camera. It wasn't just the thrilling colors of the day, the brilliant design of the back of the old station's facade, but there was the sheer liveliness of the seagulls too. Their comically grand biology was such a charming augment to the colorful human designs. So I did what I could with the two elements together.
And then, as one fervently hopes when one is photographing, luck struck!
I am ever keen to capture the seagulls here in flight, but I am rarely successful. But for once my timing was excellent and, well, like I said, lucky.
This is expressed mostly in two photographs. I experimented with ai and with turning up the volume on some of my pictures of this scene, but I am a little too proud of these two pictures below to muddy the waters with a lot of fakery. For today I will leave my pictures mainly as they were, the two that were great surprises to me: my first real successes with seagulls in flight (or almost in flight). Yes, I cooked the clarity and color as I would in any edits of pictures, but these are basically my as is pictures taken on the scene as it played out:
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