Living her life like it's golden
The lovely detail on Maggie's gown.
Saturday morning's sunrise portrait session more than made up for missing the Golden Hour the previous night. Maggie wore a stunning gold dress and earrings (thank you Facebook friends for voting!), shiny gold shoes and was absolutely bathed in golden light goodness at the famous Pont Alexandre III (a gorgeous bridge adorned in...you guessed it...gold). The architecture in Paris just absolutely blows my mind and if you wake up early enough, you can enjoy it with almost nobody else around!
Saturday's office didn't suck!
Naptime
We have slowly recognized a pattern: Wake up on little sleep, sunrise portrait session, breakfast, sleep a little more, wake up and early evening portrait session, dinner, sleep, and repeat. For me, I add to that steaming the wardrobe (often with Martin's help...otherwise it takes forever) in the morning and blogging before bed. I'm sure that when we return home to Denver, it will feel odd being away from the routine we've created!
Scenic View?
After Maggie's golden portrait session, right on schedule, we all went to sleep. When we woke we got ready for another portrait session, this time in a location none of us were even slightly familiar with. Prior to leaving for Paris, I purchased a gorgeously illustrated and informative guide book. In it, it describes a very scenic (and rather unknown) view of the Eiffel Tower. We decided to give it a go on completely blind faith.
On our way to the very scenic view of the Eiffel Tower.
A joke that we have is that pretty much everywhere our portrait sessions are taking place can be reached within 30 minutes. No matter what direction it is, our destination is always 30 minutes away...and our scenic view portrait session was no different. Once we got off the metro, we started walking to the address listed in the book. I had no idea how scenic it was going to be...and upon arrival, my first response was, "eh."
Don't get me wrong. I understand why the author included that location in her book. From the address given, you stand on the top of a hilly street and off in the distance you see the Eiffel Tower smack center, as if the road leads directly to it. But it looks small. And as I started photographing Maggie I realized that the tower wasn't even showing up. Oh well.
Martin and the very amazing view of the Eiffel Tower.
American Graffiti
Despite the underwhelming scenic view, we found some great...rather gritty...locations nearby to photograph Maggie. This included a well-lit alley way covered in graffiti, with some very...um...choice English words sprayed on the wall. Stay tuned for when I start posting finished images ;) While photographing Maggie in front of the graffiti, I was approached by a very large group of people who wanted me to take their photograph using a cell phone in front of the colorful walls. As long as they weren't using a God awful selfie stick, I was more than happy to oblige!
We stayed for quite a while in the area, which seemed to be Chinatown...but the area was a tad bit sketchier than I was comfortable with, so once I got images that I was happy with, I suggested we promptly relocate.
Sleepless in Paris
After leaving Chinatown we found a lovely Italian restaurant not far from Monday's location, the Jardin du Luxembourg. The food was amazing and I did NOT get stuck in the bathroom this time! So exciting!!!
I cannot remember what time we got back home, but I remember that it was late...and I remember that after I finished blogging I looked at the clock and realized that my alarm for the next day's portrait session was going off in less than TWO HOURS. Although I'm used to staying up all night creating back home (I've always been nocturnal), I usually can get a great stretch of sleep, afterwards. When it was all said and done, I believe I slept 90 minutes total that night.
To find out if I was able to function enough to get everything done on the next day's schedule, check out tomorrow's blog!!!
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