Friday Photo Shoot Out: Bridges

There aren't many bridges in my town of Aubière. You've seen how tiny our little stream is, and the freeway overpasses are just boring.
But lucky for the Shootout I was in Paris this past weekend, and man, do they have bridges!
This is one of the oldest ones across the Seine, massive and grey.
This one connects the Rive Gauche to the Isle de la Cité.
What I love about this shot is there's a Monsieur Chat in it, though you really have to know to look for it! For the Monsieur Chat story and closer photos, click here.

The architectural details on the older bridges are wonderful. Every one of these faces is different, and there must be a hundred of them in all.

One of the pedestrian bridges taking you right to the Louvre.

It's a tradition for lovers to attach a padlock to the fence.
There are hundreds of locks now, all different shapes and colors.

From some bridges you can see several others.
In fact, there's probably not a bridge in the city limits from which you can't see the next one or even several.

Here a bridge peeks between the vendors of old books and cheap trinkets that line the quays from the Tuileries Gardens down past Notre Dame Cathedral.

One of the modern pedestrian bridges.
I love the shape of it.

Bridges can be interesting from underneath, too.

The Alexandre III bridge connecting the Petit Palais to the huge open field in front of Invalides where Napoleon's tomb lies is the most ornate bridge in Paris.

Some details

I like looking at statues from underneath sometimes.

Yet another walking bridge.
Not many of the metro lines cross the river. They tend to follow it, so it's nice that you can just walk across instead of having to mess with changing metro trains just to go one stop.

And the metro line 6 gets a bridge.
I like to suggest riding this line, in spite of the occassional scuzziness of the metro, because when I turn around here, there's this view:

Well, from a slightly different angle.

The sun started to set, and I still hadn't gotten around to all the bridges over the Seine in Paris, let alone bridges over anything else!

That's it for this time!

I'll post some black & whites on another occassion. Someday when I have the time and the software to play around with it.

Connect to other FSO bloggers here, and have a good weekend.