Dusk at St-Germain-des-Prés

Same weather as yesterday--but the mood is different. It was much earlier (16:55--sunset would have been 17:20), and the very light intermittent rain from earlier had stopped. The fellow on the left--a kindred spirit--no longer had his umbrellas over the photos of Paris he was selling.

Holiday lighting is still up in most places, as here. I very much like the cold, bluish temperature of the all-white lights; each display includes intermittent streaks of light which rise quickly on several tracks every few seconds. The overall effect is relatively delicate and subtle. There is one entire set of lights in the close tree in the middle of the image--you can see its overall shape if you look carefully (best in large).

Saint-Germain-des-Prés is the oldest church in Paris, initially established in the 6th century. A bit of it is visible at the left edge of the image, behind the fork in the tree.