Views from Opéra Bastille

During intermission, the top exterior-facing balcony of the Opéra Bastille building provides wonderful views across Paris, through the wall of transparent glass windows forming the Bastille-facing façade of the building.

Stereotypical Parisian buildings and rooftops, stretching to the horizon.

In the sun-facing direction, the sunset-tending light provides a high contrast and high drama.

The sunset-lit angel atop the pillar at the center of Bastille.

The Eiffel Tower and Notre Dame visible.

This post's theme word is campanology, "the art or study of bell-ringing or making bells." A visual survey of the Parisian skyline displays the products of several eras of campanology.

April retroblogging

Another month, another frail effort at reducing the queue. I didn't do very well this month, but I did some. If you want to go back and look mostly at my light commentary on photos I took, go ahead:

• Stone-carving calligraphy
• The stereotypical Japanese alley
• Banal tourist photos
• Lengthwise koi pond
• The Atrocity Archive
• Light, visible

This post's theme word is fanfaron, "a boaster or braggart." Publicly failing to achieve pre-announced goals renders me less of a fanfaron, and can add a line to my CV of failures.