le Pont des Arts, a pedestrian-only bridge. A fashion (from China or Eastern Europe they say) similar to dropping a coin in a fountain makes people attach a padlock on the fence and throw the key in the Seine. Names and dates are written on the padlock and there you are for eternal love! Naïve attitude again but it seems to be a popular one. I think the city of Roma has forbidden that movement and even has the padlocks removed once in a while. Paris authorities claim they don’t care about but the padlocks have been removed all at once a few times in the past, at night. Maybe local avengers? Imagine cutting off and cleaning 1000’s of padlocks in one night?! It must be a battalion raiding the bridge.
of course smart asses exploit the ambient naivety and sell padlocks on the spot.
I don’t know what that girl was doing alone…in memoriam? Love by telepathy?
Notice the black and bigger hearts? They belong to a French women’s right group, “Ni Putes ni Soumises” (roughly, no whores nor obedient). One can scan the QR code on such a heart and symbolically free a woman from male violence.
there was also one pair of handcuffs! What was the meaning of that action? A sad soul who wanted to free herself/himself from a nasty relationship? A masochist meaning?
happy couple who just did it.
a couple? I’d guess so but anyway this was the big debate in France this spring, the gay issue on marriage. Demonstrators took the streets, the pros and cons tended to avoid each others while they supported or opposed the marriage for all. As usual violence comes from the “anti” group. It makes me laugh when they claim to be gay friendly, when they claim they even have gay friends (waow they live dangerously!) but, but… they should look at the various countries which have already passed the law and see what happens. Well nothing basically…10 years or so in Belgium or Holland and all runs smoothly… any the law has just been voted but is now being challenged for another month.
as the joke goes, gay people should be allowed to wed because there is no reason straight people are the only one to suffer the burden of marriage.
I used my beloved Leica M6, 28mm F:2.0, and tested a Kodak Portra 160.
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