Heading south in the Drome region of the Rhone Valley, the landscapes, agriculture and architecture of Provence gradually assert themselves. Even on frigid winter days we recognize glimpses of Provence in Valence, Grignan, Nyons — in town squares, lavender fields, truffle plantations, vineyards and olive orchards.
There’s a special atmosphere to the gardens and parks of Paris in winter, before the leaves appear on the trees and block the view. Brandon Eckhoff has captured that atmosphere though a series of photographs [...]
I’ve been to the palace and gardens of Versailles dozens of times but never on such a quiet, empty afternoon as yesterday. It was a Monday, the day the palace is closed to the public, [...]
With All Saints Day, November 1, just passed the chrysanthemums left by loved ones and fallen leaves decorate the marble tombstones and sculptures of Pere Lachaise Cemeter in Paris.
In the context of France Revisited’s study of the relationship between trees and place, three images at Pointe du Layet on the Riviera.
Va-nu-pieds, the Barefoot Photographer, returns to Parc de Sceaux just south of Paris to continue his photographic experiment.
Va-nu-pieds encounters spring during a barefoot walk on the streets of Paris and recalls a line from Sofia Coppola’s “Lost In Translation.”
It’s been unusually cold in Paris, mostly a dry cold though. It’s the damp cold that normally marks the Paris winter so, warmly dressed, it’s nearly a pleasure to be in the cold outside. It’s [...]
One afternoon last weekend, while visiting friends in flat, damp Vendée, south of the Loire by the Atlantic coast, I abandoned them to their napping 2-year-old, their coughing 4-year-old, and their 6-year-old having a brat attack because she didn’t [...]
