Metro Pont Marie in the Rain

A difficult choice today--raining much of the time. This blip was taken late, returning from our one outing. Don't miss the towers of Notre Dame in the background. If you can bear some noise, view it large; it was taken at 800 ISO with my point and shoot (I did use noise reduction software, but it can do only so much).

At 5 pm we headed off to the Maison Européene de la Photographie(MEP)--one of the main centers for photography exhibitions in Paris. There are always several shows--unfailingly interesting if not always totally to our taste. And Wednesdays (like today) are free after 5 pm.

The best exhibition was an "ABC" of Marc Riboud (born 1923)--26 of his best images selected according to the first letter of the most prominent feature--sounds confusing, but it worked. "Around the Extremes" was a large, intriguing, highly selective show from the MEP's own collection--it started conservatively but by the end it got too extreme for us (for example, Robert Mapplethorpe was only in the middle).

EDIT!! A very good friend noted what I had thought of for this comment but then forgot: He saw "what seemed to be a very rare sighting in yesterday's blip in the rain--a phone booth!" They are indeed getting quite common in today's Paris.