A few of my fave Paris pix Shawn took before my 1st visit

Shawn really got into photography during his 4-month stay in Paris - it is currently his new obsession/hobby. We already had a pretty good camera that we bought for our honeymoon last year, that took a very long time to learn how to use (well for him, I still barely know how to use it!) - it's a Panasonic DMC-FZ50 bridge DSLR - it has all of the features of a DSLR except for the detachable lense. I call it the 'big' camera. Then he bought a Fuji Film Finepix F-31FD in Paris for a surprisingly good price, as we really needed a compact camera - I was glad he got it just in time for my 1st visit, because I didn't want to have to cart around a big bulky camera all of the time & look like a tourist (this of course became the 'small' camera!). This has automatic settings on it, but you can almost fully control it manually as well. I experimented using the Museum setting during my 1st trip but most of the pix turned out really grainy & shadowy, unfortunately (as you may have seen in my Louvre & other previous museum posts) .

I wanted to post a few of my fave shots Shawny took before my visit when his friend Howie visited him in July for Bastille Day on the 14th, so here you go...he was still learning how to use the 'big' camera, but I think he did a great job capturing the Eiffel Tower (above), l'Arc de Triomphe (below) :

and the Bastille Day fireworks on July 14th:



His work evolves from this point on and improves over the course of his stay there - he has sooo many shots that we are kind of overwhelmed with the sheer volume of good ones there are to chose from....we have no idea how we are going to share them all with everyone....I love the idea of doing a photo book of all the best ones - but to choose the best of so many....it will be a work in progress for quite awhile (judging by how slow we both are when it comes to completing photo projects!)...stay tuned & I'll post a few more of my faves of his.

Next posts will be Paris Trip #2 & most of the shots I'll post are mine that I took (I improved too, especially with my nature closeups!)...come back soon to see & read more!