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Photo Walk in December

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Photos, Pixelfed 4, Personal 18
Current music:
Mammal Hands — Late Bloomer
Current drink:
Pepperming Tea

I have a big backlog of photos, and now that I have an ability to embed them in my blog, I will occasionally do so!

I am initially posting them on Pixelfed, and this post was originally published there. Pixelfed is cool, maybe you should join it, and post photos there, and not somewhere else. If you’re publishing them on your site — reposting them on Pixelfed could also be a good idea.

Anyways.

A photo of a park, view is over a fountain surface (not working), with a path with trees on both sides behind it. There are people on the path far in the distance, maybe around 20 of them, with the path ending almost at the horizon, where a grey sky takes over and fills the top half of the image. It is a twilight, the photo is mostly grey, with a bit of green grass visible in-between the trees. The fountain surface takes the bottom quarter of the photo and reflects the tree and the sky.

On December 25 of last year, on the next day after publishing my latest article — “Indirect Cyclic Conditions: Prototyping Parametrized CSS Mixins” — I went for a walk in a nearby park.

It is usually hard for me to go outside, but I got this habit recently: after I finish an article, I just try to go for a walk. Either on the same day, or the next one. This led to my Pixelfed account having a bit more photos than usual in the last few months!

This time, there was another reason to go and take some photos — I bought myself a new lens. I am using an Olympus OM-D E-M5 Camera — the Micro Four Thirds one from 2012.

Usually, I use the Olympus M.Zuiko Digital 45mm f/1.8 lens, but this was my first time trying their 25mm version. It was nice, although I got too used to the 45mm one.

A photo of a chateau with its reflection in the surface of a fountain. The building is highlighted by yellow lights which outline a row of windows. A bit of city houses are visible on both sides of the chateau.

It was a nice walk, during twilight, after the sunset. I think, the park was closing soon, but hey, the gates were open, and there were people still inside, so I did sneak in for a bit.

The park is near Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye and has a long terrace that overlooks the towns below that stretch up to Paris on the horizon.

A photo of a bench standing in sand on a corner of a high terrace overlooking a city below. It is twilight, city is full with blurry yellow lights, a bit of a river with a bridge can be visible below as well. Between the city and the bench there is a metal fence with a swirly pattern reminiscent of butterflies. A hilly horizon is covered by grey clouds.

There were either low clouds, or fog, or smog on the horizon — usually it is possible to see the Eiffel Tower there, on the right from La Défense. This time you couldn’t see them.

A photo of a view from the terrace over the river, a bridge over it, and the city before and further back. It is darker than on the previous photos, and more yellow lights are visible, and they are now in focus. The front of the photo is darker, with roofs of closer buildings visible from behind leafless trees. The sky is grey, there are hills on the horizon merging into the greenness of the night and littered with buildings.

But at this time you could see the city with the night lights starting to appear here and there, with cars driving on the bridge over the Seine somewhere below. It was a pleasant evening.

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