I got here yesterday and have walked miles. This morning started beautifully. I was going to take the tram to the Rijks Museum, but decided to walk instead, which is when I caught those lovely reflections on the canal.
It was a busy day –I visited a cemetery, and Rembrandt’s House. So I must say that I am pooped, but a good night’s sleep and I’ll be ready for more tomorrow.

I am still on the learning curve with my brand new camera, a Panasonic Lumix FZ-100 and am quite happy with the results.
My last visit was at the Louvre, where lighting often makes it difficult to take good shots. I don’t usually take pictures of paintings, because of the difficulty of getting good or faithful results.

I was in the XVI century Italian painting section

and noticed those cute angels playing on the floor on the right lower hand corner of a painting.

As I said in a previous post, I love angels, but who can resist a good old dragon being slain?

Do you think someone ruffled his feathers?

Taken yesterday at Versailles with my brand new camera.

This one I took last year during a trip to Berlin with friend Monceau
We took a one-day visit to Potsdam and went around Sans-Souci Schloss, which has enough baroque and rococo stuff to feast any photographer’s eye

It’s never very easy to photograph a church, particularly one with a cupola.
It’s been almost a year since I was in Berlin and I haven’t found the time to post some of the photos I took there. And yet, it’s a fascinating city.
On our first day, we visited the impressive cathedral

I may be a total stranger to Dogon culture, and be unable to understand much of it, there are still images that “talk” to me.
Is this very different from our Virgin and child paintings or sculptures?

Seen at Musée du Quai Branly yesterday.

I was standing on the left bank, when I noticed the street light, which provided the ferris wheel at Jardin des Tuileries with eyes.
I love finding faces in strange places

For once, the window was clean enough to allow a photograph.

I sat there for quite a while yesterday, reading. Amazingly, it was very quiet and cool, as I was sitting next to the air conditioning.
You can’t beat the view, really and after a long walk, visiting some of the XVIIth century painting rooms, it was really pleasant to get some rest.

Yesterday, I visited an amazing exhibit at Invalides, where they gathered suits of armours belonging to the Princes of Europe in the XVIth century.
Incredible pieces of art and workmanship.