Foto Friday #2: Eiffel Tower

It had always been a dream of mine to spend Christmas in Paris and one year when I suggested it to Kenny he responded with “Why don’t we do it this year?”. So in December of 2004 we flew over and spent the holidays in that beautiful city!

It was not my first time in Paris but it still always enchants me each time I go! Despite having been on various occasions, I had always been too cheap (or poor as a student) to actually go up the Eiffel Tower so I was determined to go this time.

It was so cloudy I could hardly see anything once we got up there and it was so cold and windy we struggled to stay up there too long but despite all that, it was still a memorable experience.

The shot below is one of my favorites from that trip. It was taken with a very simple digital point & shoot camera, hand held with the flash off (no fancy DSLR here). I just love how lucky I was that the beams of light were perfectly horizontal when the picture snapped and the clouds were lit up with the tower’s lights.

As a bonus, I’ll post a slideshow of the trip below: