So, there I was, in Paris (I'm sorry, but I've never started a sentence like that before, and wanted to see what it looks like. Actually ... fairly pretentious. Nevertheless ...) and I managed to snag a seat on the Metro (the subway). It was about 9 PM ... we'd spent the morning at the Eiffel Tower, the afternoon at the Louvre, and now on this, the final night of our vacation, we had one more thing we wanted to do.
We had stopped back at the hotel to rest up for a bit, and I went to a few local shops to pick up some wine, some baguettes, some cheeses ... and we boarded the Metro to go back to the Eiffel Tower. Our plan was to sit out on the plaza, listen to the buskers, and just people-watch.
Didn't have to go very far for that. Just before the doors close, a guy jumps on the subway with a sax and a boom box, clicks on a backing track ... and serenades the entire car.
I grabbed my camera and fired off a quick shot. It's one of my favourite photos from the trip. I'm not much of a photographer, but ... I like this one. Call it a happy accident.
This is a great picture. I can hear him.
Actually, the guy two doors down is home from college and is playing his sax on his back porch on this very hot summer evening on the prairie. So I sit here looking at a fella in Paris and hearing a kid in Illinois and my heart is melting. I'm so glad it's Friday....
Posted by: MrsDoF | June 24, 2005 at 11:04 PM
You captured the "solo face" rather well here, and the guy behind him looks like he's kinda spacin' out and groovin' on it.
Hope the sax maniac got lots of change in the case.
Posted by: Bucky Four-Eyes | June 24, 2005 at 11:48 PM
This is the best! I'm so glad you had a great trip to the tower...and a great time after :)
Posted by: kristine | June 25, 2005 at 05:30 AM
In Chicago there is the infamous "peanuts for Jesus" guy who will chase you from car to car on the El if you don't buy a $1 bag o nuts. I just had visions of this guy following people around tootling Kenny G songs at them until they paid up.
Posted by: whfropera | June 25, 2005 at 10:19 AM
What a MOMENT! I can almost feel the whole setting, and hear the music at the same time.
It's a good thing you had your camera with you. In cases like this, there's not much to be said for a "photographic memory". Better to capture the moment and share with the world!
great shot. ;)
Posted by: Laura | June 26, 2005 at 12:40 PM
Great photo!
Ah, Paris.
Posted by: paula | June 26, 2005 at 03:17 PM
The impromptu snapshots usually turn out to be the best at capturing the spirit of the moment. They show an authenticity rarely seen in more formal, planned, or posed photographs.
Posted by: Brikwall | June 26, 2005 at 05:25 PM
What a wonderful thing to have a memory of. I cant wait to be in Paris someday....
Posted by: lawbrat | June 30, 2005 at 12:13 PM