In this gallery you will find photos from a vacation in Paris in May 2004. With your mousepointer over a thumbnail you will get more information. Please click the thumbnail to open the picture in a new window. All images have a size of 1100x750 pixel or 130-200KB. Enjoy your holidays!
La Défense
It has taken one decade, until the Parisians forgave Francois Mitterrand, who had expected too much from his fellow frenchmen by giving them La Defense, sketched by a Danish architect. The arch, 110 meters high and weighing 300.000 tons, was just too much for the french soul in the 80s.
I have to admit that I liked the building from the beginning, at least from a photographic standpoint. And the view toward the east, over the Champs Elysees up to the Arc de Triomphe, is really really extraordinary.
In this gallery you will find a few impressions from one of the most interestins business-centres of the world.
1., 2., 5. Arch
110 meters high, crazy and photogenic
3., 4., 6., 7., 10. Défense
Views from and around La Défense. The buildings are so huge that I was really happy
to have a wide-angle lens
8.-9. Enterprise
I'm not sure. Is this Star trek or what? Beam me up, Scotty