'Staying Alive By Not Staying Still'
Hollywood stars Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez, recently married and honeymooning in France, were spotted having lunch Tuesday at an alfresco dining area overlooking the Napoleon Courtyard of the Louvre Museum in Paris.
The courtyard features the museum’s iconic glass-and-metal pyramid, designed by Chinese-American I.M. Pei, where visitors enter the museum.
Meanwhile, I’m attending a travel-memoir writing workshop this week in Paris with travel writer Rolf Potts.
India is fascinating, a country of many stark contrasts, and the images are stunning almost everywhere you turn.
Yet the fascination comes with a jumble of mixed feelings, as in the advantage I took in shooting the scene above of the beautiful Baha’i Lotus Temple.
I was there at dusk with the setting sun, good for taking a photo of almost anything, anywhere. And in New Delhi, with the most polluted air of any capital city in the world, shooting straight into the sun like that, I was able to use the pollution like a filter to mute the sun’s rays coming directly through my lens from behind the temple to capture the scene with dramatic effect.
At least I thought so. Let me know if you disagree.