Category: photos
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Marché aux puces, Paris
Marché aux puces – flea market – the concept is ancient and universal but the origin of the term is disputed. Who started the term Puces ? We went to the biggest and probably most historical one in the North of Paris – 18th arrondissement – just outside the Porte de Clignancourt – Marché aux…
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Random photos #11 – #15
These are the photos I (Chris) took and posted on Facebook. The series was started in March of 2013. There is no theme – just something random and visually interesting. We gave each photo a title and noted where it was taken (to the extent we could remember). #11 – the sky – Madeira #12…
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Random photos #6 – #10
These are the photos I (Chris) took and posted on Facebook. The series was started in March of 2013. There is no theme – just something random and visually interesting. We gave each a title and noted where it was taken (to the extent we could remember the city). #6 – “we are the robots”…
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Random photos #1 – #5
These are the photos I (Chris) took and posted on Facebook. The postings started in March of 2013. There is no theme – just something random and visually interesting. We gave each a title and noted where it was taken (to the extent we could remember the city). #1 – the history of cool –…
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Deutsches Uhrenmuseum, Furtwangen – part 1
During Easter, we drove up to the Black Forest area of Germany. We visited the German Clock Museum (Deutsches Uhrenmuseum) on our way back from Baden-Baden. The museum is in Furtwangen, a small town just off the Black Forest high road (Schwarzwaldhochstraße, see our post here). The museum is housed in a very humble-looking modern building.…
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Astier de Villatte (remix) – Paris
Astier de Villatte is a Parisian store that makes and sells ceramics, candles and other carefully crafted everyday objects. The photos may look familiar. That is because all these pictures had appeared in an earlier post (click here). . In that post, they were only slightly processed to appear as natural as possible. Here, I am…