Rambling

I’ve been here for nearly a year now and I’m still out exploring the city each week.
My usual method is that I just start heading in a direction and see where I end up, it can be a good test of whether I was paying attention to all the random left and right turns that [...]

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Astrolabe

Despite living (or perhaps because of it) in the Netherlands for a year now and seeing boats on a daily basis, I found myself drawn to this image, I think it’s the colours.

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Hot Air

For those of you who really really want to take a photo of the Eiffel Tower then the absolute best place to get a photo of the engineering marvel is the Palais de Chaillot at the Trocadero.
It allows you to use lines to draw your viewers eyes directly to the object you desire to highlight. [...]

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Heads Up!

Now that you know what not to photograph, what should you look out for?
1. Try to find out of the way places where tourists walk right by without noticing. For example the small little parc at the tip of Île de la Cité:

2. Big heads! If ever you see a big head you must talk [...]

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Metro

An important thing to note when rambling around Paris is to restrain yourself whenever you see something typically French or Parisian – do not reach for your camera, do not point, do not click, forget completely about it and look for something original.
Now I realise that this all a bit vague so to help you [...]

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In-Seine-ity

Go to Paris and people will invariably want to see your photos. It’s then that cruel disbelieving comments are made, for instance:
“You went to Paris and you took photos of the underside of a bridge?”

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Numbers

I worry sometimes as I wander around taking pictures of strange objects that people might think I’m weird but that all changed on Sunday morning as I strolled  around the Tuilieres Gardens.
The gardens have green chairs liberally scattered around the area and each chair has a number on its seat.
This was very exciting for my [...]

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Problems for the Kirribilli Kid

The Kirribilli Kid’s recent ascent of K2 was, as you would expect, a success but it was more difficult that he expected.
There are very practical reasons why no-one has done a naked solo ascent of that mountain before. The main one being that it’s bloody cold up there!
And even our hero’s immense radiating bodyheat was [...]

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More Pride

While I can’t quite believe that I’m writing another post about “Pride and Prejudice” and that I can write so often about something I still haven’t read, I feel that it’s important to share with you that there’s a new edition of the classic book coming out  which could change all that!
This new edition will [...]

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Four Weeks of Mystery

For four weeks readers from such far flung locations as Malaysia, Taiwan, Belgium, Sweden and the mystical land of Norn Iron have been tuning in to find out the next exciting installment of the Kirribilli Kid yet none have been forthcoming.
The mystery man who keeps his identity veiled in secrecy has vanished.
The keyboards of the [...]

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