November 30, 2006: Paris by night panorama

Now do you highlight an image that's roughly 15000
pixels wide and 520 pixels high?

You reduce it to 2875 x 100 pixels, and link it to the
larger version. Click on the above panorama to see the
massive 1.8 MB version. (But don't do it if you're on a
modem connection, unless you have some time to spare.)

Even the reduced version is too wide for our site here,
but it's such an awesome image I had to share it.

This item is linked today by Digg, where it's pointing to a
French site with nothing but the photo credit and link for
the photographer, so I'll do the same:

This marvellous photo is by Arnaud Frich http://www.arnaudfrichphoto.com

mmmm.... The City of Light!

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Really gorgeous. It looks like a Golden City.

Hark, me heareth Jean Val Jean!

Looks like the shot is being taken from some roof on Notre Dame.

Around and around…

Whoa, that's wide! Must be several turns. ;-)

Could be interesting to know, how many of you have been there? (Not necessarily on the roof, but in the city.) Let's see a "YES" (if you have) or a "NO" (otherwise). Here's mine: YES

Nice, but I don't see Paris. Nor her little dog.

...nor her little minky. Nor Britney's.

She was hiding behind that building

Bromkloss - yes, but must be in a cherry picker or something, because that rosette on the Notre Dame is not at ground level.

Yes I've been there three times -- all on business. But I did take some extra time to do some exploring. It's a lovely city, pleasant people, and the subway is very convenient.

Great shot and his website has several others http://www.arnaudfrichphoto.com/photo-de-paris-pl1.htm

But did he get a model release from this guy? We're talking a lawsuit here!

Quote:

I have heard they have a very fast moving walkway at one of the railway stations (forgot which, not the one I used anyway). On the order of 40 km/h someone guessed, with some care taken to gradually accelerate its passengers. Cool! Had I only known that when I was there. Does anyone know what I am talking about? How exaggerated is it?

How would you gradually accelerate a walkway? It's a unit. The entire walkway would have to be going the same speed.

Amazing pic. Paris seems to have two churches that look just about identical... you can see one of them at the far left of the picture, and the other at the far right.

;-)

I love that Paris by Night panaroma website.

i'm getting the AFU error code

We had a weekend in Paris about three years ago. Stayed in a little hotel not too far from Notre Dame. Got to see the Arc de Triumph (sp?) Inside Notre Dame, the Louvre, ate crepes up the Eiffel Tower, got happy on absynth, ate snails and saw the Moulin Rouge show. All in the crappiest (freezing hortizontal rain) weather possible, and spent a bloody fortune.

It was huge fun and I'd do it again in an instant....

Welcome to the Cellar, Yupa.

Ahhhh this is what dual 1280x1024 monitors are good for!!



chrisinhouston;
I think that guy's pants are down around his ankles!!

Ah hell it is Paris..

Are those lights or burning cars?

Yeah tulzscha, me too.

Welcome to the Cellar jaybat.

So the poor impoverished minorities are buying wrecks to torch them?

They've averaged 110 per night so that's a lot of money for show.

And how about the two people who died recently when a working bus was torched?

The story says a lot about how deep the French capacity for denial is.

Isn't denying the problem, helping make it bigger?

Let's show those French by doing them one better: we'll go out, buy some wrecks and deep-fry them.

LOL

HAHA!!

No wonder the spell checker refused to help me....

vi·o·la -1 n.

1- A stringed instrument of the violin family, slightly larger than a violin, tuned a fifth lower, and having a deeper, more sonorous tone.

2- An organ stop usually of eight-foot or four-foot pitch yielding stringlike tones.


vi·o·la -2 n.

A plant of the genus Viola, which includes the violets and pansies, especially a variety having flowers resembling violets in size and shape and pansies in coloration.


voi·là - interj.

Used to call attention to or express satisfaction with a thing shown or accomplished: Mix the ingredients, chill, and voilà! a light, tasty dessert.

I thank you... You are a gentleman and a scholar.

But I keep pitching...