Paris Trip

The trip to Paris was the most influential experience I have had in a while. I learned so much about myself as I critiqued the art in each place I went. I learned what I liked and what I didn’t like in photographers. Forest gave me an awesome realization that we can look at art, through a mirror or through a window. “When we look at art through a window we are looking at something we have never seen before and when we are looking through the mirror we are looking at something that is about us.” This really helped me look at art in a different way and opened my mind. I like knowing why I am doing what I am doing. I can now comfortably say I can look at art in the way I feel it is intended. Now to talk about the first impressions I had when I first looked out of the train station. I fell in love with the repetition of urban design in the buildings. Caring the suitcases to the hotel ruined most of the enjoyment of the walk through Paris. Once we go to the hotel and dropped the entire luggage off is were the experience of Paris began. Some of my friends and I walked around and we found a café and enjoyed the culture of the people and I shortly realized that when you take a picture of a performance they will shortly ask you for money. The second time I had to say no to them because I didn’t enjoy their attitudes. After a while we left and began our experience back to the hotel and we didn’t have trouble because Bates had been to Paris before Lacoste. The pictures I took that day were very satisfying. The next day we went to Varsay with the painting students. I enjoyed the art inside the building and also the architecture. The garden was so breath taking when I walked out side. It was rainy so I was upset about that part. Other than that I enjoyed my time. After taking a bunch of photos I realized I had lost the ticket that I had for my tripod. We had to check our tripods for some reason before we went in to the building for some dumb reason. So I went to the desk and explained what had happened and I had to sign my name on this piece of paper and the only reason they believed me is because I had my SCAD card and on the tripod it said property of SCAD. After avoiding that bullet I went to a café near by. I enjoyed the town. It was very unique. Then after enjoying the Café I met up with Audrey and we some how found our way back to the Hotel. The next day was the Louvre. Before I went in I explored the garden because the light that morning was absolutely amazing. While walking to the garden this women asked me if I spoke English. I said yes I do and she insisted that I signed this petition but I told her no thank you like 4 times. Then she finally left me alone and I found Ishmael and Bates and we went in to this museum that had impressionist paintings and then we went to the Louvre and we saw the paintings and also the Egyptian artwork. Then we went to the Winagrand show that they had. He was an awesome photographer who inspired me to take a lot more candid shots.