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Anyone who is a regular visitor to this blog will know that I love photographing I Paris.  I am lucky that I travel to Paris for business several times a year and this gives me the opportunity to explore around the famous and not so famous parts of the City of Light. The Eiffel Tower is one of my favourite places to photograph and the 1000 foot high structure dominates the skyline of Paris, in fact the Eiffel Tower is the symbol of Paris.  I have plenty of shots of the Tower and I now try to find as many different angles as possible. This shot was taken from the Paris office of the World Endurance Championship last February and while the Eiffel Tower is situated in a park on the bank of River Seine, this image taken using a telephoto lens, has compressed the perspective so it appears the Tower is in a densely built up area.  Also being such a large structure I like to zoom in and parts of the Eiffel Tower but ensuring that the image is still easily recognisable ...

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...