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May 25, 2009
Paris in black, white and fresh.
Work and life. I love both so I do not separate them. They merge.
And their quality depends in large part upon whether I can manage to see conventional things differently--with a sense of surprise. Put another way, can I see routine things--in life and work--as a child would see them for the first time? If I can, it helps me. Helps clients, too. It improves problem-solving at all levels.
On the countless stays I've had in Paris, I visited the Eiffel Tower just once, on my second trip. Even then I thought it was boring and a waste of time--except I met on the tower a woman named Linda who stayed in my life for nearly 10 years. She was smart, beautiful, regal and hopelessly difficult--but never boring. However, unlike Linda, views from, or of, the Eiffel Tower did not excite, overwhelm or inspire.
So you need to keep changing eyeglasses for work and life. And maybe even for the Eiffel Tower. At Eye Prefer Paris, which ex-New Yorker Richard Nahem writes from the Marais district, Nahem shows in "My Most Unique & Unusual Eiffel Tower Photos" how tired landmarks can be interesting again. For example:
Photo: Richard Nahem
Posted by JD Hull at May 25, 2009 09:52 PM
Comments
Great shot. Very mysterious.
Posted by: Joe at May 25, 2009 04:24 PM
hi
thanks so much for writing about me and my photos.
Richard from Paris
Posted by: richard at May 26, 2009 02:04 AM