Did not take too many photos today as I spent most of the day at the Louvre. Though photos are allowed, somehow I did not feel the need or want the distraction of running about with my camera.
The museum was immensly crowded, especially around the star attraction; the Mona Lisa. The crowd was intense next to this small painting, with hundreds pressing in on each other to get close. Everyone seemed to have a camera or cell phone stuck out like an appendage, leading me further to disdain my own camera.
I would stnad in front of a painting, and people would thrust a camera directly in front of my eyes to snap a picture of what I was looking at, and then scurry off to the next painting. A feeding frenzy of the visual. No one seemed to be looking at the art works.
Anyway, once the Mona Lisa was behind me, I was able to spend the rest of the day enjoying the acres of artworks the Louvre had to offer.
enchanteur!
jeff reeder 