This past September I attended a Dagstuhl workshop on Robust Query Processing, and chose to fly in and out of Paris rather than Frankfurt. On the weekends bookending the workshop I stayed at the Select Hotel in St. Germain, across the street from the famous Sorbonne. Luckily, the University was open to the public that weekend for tours and photographs, and I certainly took my share while I was there. For the trip I took my Manfrotto tripod, my favourite Mamiya C330S with 55mm, 105mm, 135mm, and 180mm lenses and forty assorted rolls of 120 film, largely Ilford FP4+ and Delta 400, with some Kodak Tri-X 400 thrown in.
Being in St. Germain, it was an easy walk to Cite and Notre Dame Cathedral. I made several trips to Notre Dame over the two weekends, morning, afternoon, and evening, trying to capture better views of the cathedral’s architecture than I was able to in the summer of 2008.
We’ll see what the prints bring, but here are the contact sheets of two rolls of Ilford FP4+.
