Eiffel Tower Visit
We had been talking about visiting famous landmarks while travelling, and hoping to get a great photo of it. Only to arrive and discover the landmark is under renovation and completely covered in scaffolding! So there were a few snickers when we rounded the corner from the train station for my first glimpse of the Eiffel Tower up close, only to realize that two legs of the tower were covered in mesh construction material! Also, a daredevil, Taig Khris, was fulfilling a lifelong dream of jumping from the first of the Eiffel Tower to win the world record for highest roller skate jump - so there was an ugly ramp taking up the lower half of the structure. Aaaannd... the sky was so grey and flat, not a nice backdrop for structures at all. That’s the beauty of travel photography – if you only have half an hour scheduled for a landmark visit, you’ve just got to work with what you’ve got - no return visits.
We had been talking about visiting famous landmarks while travelling, and hoping to get a great photo of it. Only to arrive and discover the landmark is under renovation and completely covered in scaffolding! So there were a few snickers when we rounded the corner from the train station for my first glimpse of the Eiffel Tower up close, only to realize that two legs of the tower were covered in mesh construction material! Also, a daredevil, Taig Khris, was fulfilling a lifelong dream of jumping from the first of the Eiffel Tower to win the world record for highest roller skate jump - so there was an ugly ramp taking up the lower half of the structure. Aaaannd... the sky was so grey and flat, not a nice backdrop for structures at all. That’s the beauty of travel photography – if you only have half an hour scheduled for a landmark visit, you’ve just got to work with what you’ve got - no return visits.
2 comments:
the photos still turned out great! After all, it's hard to take a bad photo of the Eiffel Tower. Pretty amazing to see it, but I can understand your disappointment at it being partially covered up. did you see it at night with it's twinkling lights?
Sadly... I didn't see it with it's twinkling lights. We were so exhausted at the end of the three days we were there, having just flown in from Vancouver. It does give me something to look forward to next trip, as I plan on going back real soon :)
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