Hotel du Louvre (Paris Street, Picture 3), Edited Version, Paris, France, 2014

In the past two years, I've been busy with many things outside photography. In addition, iPernity's blocking over 3,200 of my photos with their new payment policy has left me unsure of what to do with this account. However, I decided this week to return with some more uploads, even if it will lead to some more older material being blocked. Maybe when I run into some more money I can get a paid account in the future, but for the moment this will have to be the way I do things. In any case, this is the Hotel du Louvre in Paris. I had a short vacation in Paris two summers ago, and shot some photos, although not a lot. My Nikon is currently only functional if it's held together with tape, so I took my Zeiss Contina LK and my cameraphone (a new one, actually), and some Tmax 400 film I had received as a gift. I didn't stay at the Hotel du Louvre, but it is actually a tourist attraction in and of itself, as it is billed as Paris's first luxury hotel, opened in the relatively late year of 1887. This surprises me, at least, since Paris has long been a luxury holiday desination, but Britain and the U.S. had luxury hotels far earlier.