The evening we met Edith in Avignon - a photo on Flickriver

            Avignon was our base of operations during the week we stayed in Provence.  We got a small apartment that was on the sketchier side of the tracks but so close to the historic center of the city that the benefits outweighed the drunken nightcrawlers asking for change in French every evening.

Avignon is an old city.  Really really old.  Like going all the way back about 2500 years old.  A lot has happened in it since then, too.  It has a papal palace for example, you know, like how Vatican City has a papal palace.  For a brief span of time the Catholic church "enjoyed" two popes, an eastern one and a western one, the latter taking up residence here.  Avignon also has this neat bridge, the pont d'Avignon (more formally known as the Pont Saint-Bénézet, which you'll see an image of at some point I am sure).

Being an old city though, the streets just wind there way here and there.  Getting lost is the rule, not the exception.  And this evening represented by this image, get lost we did.  Granted, getting lost is usually what I do when exploring cities like this.  I just stuff a map in my pocket, set a couple of loose goals and then head out, taking turns where my eye or intuition lead.  Once you get used to these old European cities, it generally isn't too hard to get un-lost.  But for some reason Avignon sucked us in and gave us a good time trying to get back out.  I don't remember exactly what kept us so lost, but I remember we ended up crossing almost the entire breadth of the inner city despite our intentions otherwise.  What eventually set us right was the fact that the whole historic center of Avignon is ringed by a massive medieval wall, so once we ran into that, we just had to follow it around. 

But somewhere between then and there, we paused for just a moment in this spot and I made this image.

Taken in: France / Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur / Avignon (show map)

Taken on: March 30, 2015

Tags:

Hasselblad

film

film is not dead

Avignon

Provence

France

Europe

urban

street scene

Medium Format

6x6

Hasselblad 500C « less

Sets appears in: • France - Provence

Groups appears in: • France • France image more » • I Shoot Film • Hasselblad • Analog Photography • Blue Moon Camera • The Film Group • FILM* Club • Hasselblad Users Group • I collect light • Film is Awesome! • Analog Bokeh • Analog Soul • MILF (Man, I Love Film) • Hasselblad 500 Series - film only « less

Camera: Hasselblad 500C (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Hasselblad 500C
Show full info

Stats: 6,967 views / 5 comments

close tools panel

Badge creator

Use Flickriver Badge Creator to create a badge linking to your photos, your group or any other Flickriver view.

You can place your badge on your Flickr profile, Blog or Website.

Add to your iGoogle or Netvibes page

Flickriver widget for iGoogle or Netvibes can display almost any Flickriver view - most interesting today, by user, by group, by tag etc. Once added to your personalized homepage, just edit widget settings to select your desired view.

Clickr on one of the buttons below to install:

Embed on your Web site

To embed this view, Copy and Paste the following HTML code:

Black background (preview):

White background (preview):

Firefox and Chrome addons

Adds a 'Flickriver' button to your browser. While viewing any Flickr photos page, click on this button to open the same view on Flickriver.

Install in Firefox
Install in Chrome

Search plugin

Add 'Search on Flickriver' to your browser's search box. Works with Firefox and Internet Explorer. Install search plugin

"View on Flickriver" Greasemonkey script

A Greasemonkey script that adds Flickriver links to various Flickr photo pages - user photos, favorites, pools etc, allowing to quickly open the corresponding Flickriver view.

Also, allows quickly viewing any Flickr photo on black background in large size.

Install "View on Flickriver" script

Bookmarklet

While viewing any Flickr photos page, click on the bookmarklet to open the same view on Flickriver.

To install: drag and drop the following link to your Bookmarks toolbar.
IE users - add the link to your Favorites under the Links folder