Marche de la Bievre

[Franglais]

Small subject, not many photos, let's see how it goes.

Some French people are mad about walking, even in cities. Every year there is an organised walk from the center of Paris (Notre Dame Cathedral) up the course of the river Bievre to it's source in the hills south-west of Paris.

The trick is that they do it - at night. At daybreak they are out in the country, walking through the woodland of the Vallée de la Bievre, deafened by birdsong..

I live in Bievres. As I couldn't sleep I got up and went to see them, D300 on a tripod, long exposure so the walkers slip by like ghosts in the darkness.

I went for a second shot at the pretty part at Jouy-les-Loges (last picture) - and no sign of them. 3,000 walkers and I had the place to myself.

[armando_m]

I like them all,
interesting how one is warm followed by a cool mood and the last one a nice nature image

[Franglais]

You can get some really weird effects at night. In the first one there's a sodium light in the housing estate just behind. In the second it's just natural light.

In reality for the first two it was really DARK. I could just about see enough to walk but I had great difficulty setting up the camera on the tripod, I had to do it by feel. The camera makes it look much brighter than it really was.

The last shot was half an hour later, about 3 miles further upstream. It was light by then, with a bit of early morning mist over the valley. And dead quiet. The birds had stopped singing...