Toilet Time
Talking of toilets
(which we were, if you've been paying attention..), this guy's
destroying one.
We're at La Défense, the business district on the west of Paris
named after the brave defense of the city for one of the world
wars - oops, forgotten which one.
And it's the sort of shot you could NEVER EVER plan! You're
hurrying past on your way to work with the rest of the rats, and
lo and behold, there's a laddie smashing the hell out of a
public convenience!
No doubt he has some sort of authority to do so, because it's
not exactly standard behavour, except during riots in dodgy
quarters, but it's still arresting!
I cropped the shot a lot, because, as it was taken on the fly,
there was a lot of extraneous 'noise' clogging up the scene. In
a situation like this, where you have a great 'happening' but a
lot of other stuff going on which could detract from the image,
you have to crop. Sometimes you can't even 'see' the image until
you start cropping in your mind's eye and you have to do that to
whenever you look at an image.
P.S. This might be
the answer to my conundrum:
"The name défense
originates from the monument 'La Défense de Paris', which
was erected at this site in 1883 to commemorate the war of
1870." Apparently. Actually, the statue is there now - I saw
it the other day, a bit down from the Grande Arche.
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