I asked my good friend, Jazel Kristin, a consummate Pinay Traveller now living in Paris, to send me a couple of photos of her favorite hangout in the City of Lights. Naturally, she had a hard time choosing (from her thousands of photos as you can imagine). So she sent me a couple of shots as seen from her atelier in Cite de Arts. I will let her and her images do the talking…
I LOVE PARIS – was snapped in the river seine just when the bateau mouche (boat) sails by towards the beautiful sky…. cliché i know but this image captures how i feel about magical paris. it’s everything i wanted and more. when i took this shot i was thinking “shiyet, i really am here and i can’t believe i have all of this everyday.” you know my love affair with paris and to be finally living here is just waaaaaaaaaaaaaaa…..which brings me to the next image…
BATEAU MOUCHE REFLECTIONS – this shot was taken inside my atelier at cité des arts. i try to capture the play of lights every night inside my creative nest but of course it doesn’t truly capture what i experience every night…
cité des arts is situated in my favorite ‘hood which is in le marais and when you look outside my atelier window, i have the view of the river seine, notre dame cathedral and a little bit of the tower montparnasse. every night i close the lights each time the bateau mouche passes by. I watch how its colorful lights lits up everything it passes by…
inside my atelier i watch the light show reflecting and moving on my walls as i oooh and aaaaah like a little girl. the feeling brings me back to my childhood when mama used to buy me paris related books, magazines and even an english-french dictionary where she wrote down “follow your dreams.” It took some time for me to get here but I AM HERE 🙂
If you want to see more of Paris, visit Jazel’s blog here where you can follow her Parisian adventure.
How about you? Do you have a favorite image of your current location? We sure would like to see! Do drop me a note at polmangilog@yahoo.com.