{"id":78,"date":"2017-02-16T15:26:07","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T15:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrisfawkes.net\/blog1\/?p=78"},"modified":"2019-02-03T15:56:25","modified_gmt":"2019-02-03T15:56:25","slug":"from-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chrisfawkes.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/16\/from-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"Le Colporteur"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I had only two days in Paris and had hoped to get a unique take on the Eiffel Tower. The second day was very hot but just as I came close to the tower it began to rain heavily.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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What I noticed was that the many street peddlers had ditched the small models of the Eiffel Tower they had been selling and were not running around selling umbrellas. As I was getting soaked along with all of my camera gear I requested an umbrella from a passing seller. 10 Euro he asked for. The crowd I was trying to hide under the small shelter with booed the guy as these things were barley worth 50 cents.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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But as I and my camera gear were going to get drenched otherwise I spent no time arguing and took the umbrella.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Ten minutes later the rain had subsided. As I noticed the reflection the gentleman who had sold me the umbrella walked past, this time loaded with small models of the Eiffel Tower to sell. I quickly grabbed this shot of him walking past.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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I may have paid too much for the umbrella but I had managed to get a rare perspective of one of the worlds most photographed icons.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I had only two days in Paris and had hoped to get a unique take on the Eiffel Tower. The second day was very hot but just as I came close to the tower it began to rain heavily.\u00a0   What I noticed was that the many street peddlers had ditched the small […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[42],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fine-art","tag-photography-par-excellence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisfawkes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisfawkes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisfawkes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisfawkes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisfawkes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chrisfawkes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9163,"href":"https:\/\/chrisfawkes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions\/9163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisfawkes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisfawkes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisfawkes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}