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A Different Take on the Eiffel Tower

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When visiting big cities with iconic tourist attractions it is very tempting to go for the 'big shot' and record the standard postcard image that millions of tourist before have taken.  Now I am also one for getting the standard shot and it is something I advise all photographers to do.  This is the record image, the banker, the one that works and you'll keep in your files to remember your trip.   However it is then fun to try and do something different, to try an get a different angle or a different perspective.  It might not work but it is fun to try and if it does work, you have something to be proud of and something that is going to be worth sharing on social media. Now I have hundreds of images of the Eiffel Tower from my trips to Paris and so I decided to take images of the world famous landmark by either putting it in the background to something else I was shooting in Paris or take segments of the lattice structure.  The viewer can still recogni...