Eiffel tower
On this day my friends and I could not choose a direction for a regular walk. If you live a long time in a city, it often happens that places that attracted you at the beginning of your life in that location become, over time, the opposite - places that you unconsciously avoid. The most striking example of this phenomenon is of course the Eiffel Tower. What tourist doesn't manage to find time to at least briefly get close to the Iron Lady? But if you see a real Parisian there, know that you are in luck.
When I arrived at the place, I knew immediately that it was a very good decision - you could barely see the top of the tower from the Place du Trocadero. The rest of it was hidden behind a temporary wall of working structures. What for a tourist would have been a great disappointment, for a photographer becomes an incredible opportunity.
You would think, what good would it do for a photographer, if the main attraction was almost hidden from view?
It's very simple. The tower, as you all know it, has hardly changed in appearance for a century and a half. It will quietly stand for another five centuries and tourists for dozens of generations will be able to create innumerable photographs, and they will all be almost identical.
I, on the other hand, was fortunate enough to get in that short period (what is two months compared to seven centuries?) when the Iron Lady looks different. Given the scale of the time frame, it's almost historic (not as historic as Hitler strolling through the square though).
For me as a novice photographer, this is a unique opportunity to incorporate the Eiffel Tower into my composition without slipping into banality.
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