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Solo trip to Paris

On short notice I booked a flight to Paris for a long weekend in November. I went by myself, with little plans other than to take photos and walk around. I stayed at the CitizenM hotel in La Défense, the kind of big-scale city redevelopment that is destined to be horrible but actually succeeds.

Like the last time I was in Paris, I was very happy with the photos I took. There’s such a vibrancy to Paris that you don’t really experience in other large European cities.

The photos are taken with the Fujifilm XE4 using a variety of lenses: XF16mmF1.4, XF27mmF2.8, XF35mmF2.0, XF50mmF2.0 and XF50-140F2.8. Quite a bit to carry around, and a lot of lens changes, but I try to mix it up so that every time I go I bring different equipment.

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