For a rainy day

As it was raining this afternoon, my short attention span lead me from closing a photo application to actually looking at the images it held. The rain, incidentally, is wonderfully audible here at our loft. I love the sound of it dearly, the reverberating drops bearing down, thick and heavy and rich while we toil idly in the dim light. Appropriately the first photo I noticed was the Eiffel Tower set against faint storm clouds.



It was a bit cool and dreary but I insisted on waiting around to see the Tower sparkle on the hour, in celebration of France becoming head of the European Union. I photographed the sparkles, but I think they are more beautiful in real space than in two dimensions. This is the view street level while waiting.



On walking away I had the opportunity to practice my blurry aesthetic looking out over the Seine-




Which is more beautiful, blurry or sharp? That's an abstract question, I don't want an answer.