I had to go back to Madagascar for my day job. The journey is long and necessitated an overnight rest stop in Paris both to and from Madagascar.
The outbound trip was pretty uneventful:
I landed, went to the hotel, slept until the afternoon, started to walk around to take some pictures but got rained out a block from the hotel. Retreated back to my room to do some work, emerged for dinner later, went to bed, and headed back to the airport the next morning for the 12 hour flight to Antananarivo.
So, why is this a blog post about Paris and not Antananarivo?
I just didn’t have any time for sightseeing there. Got in. Worked. Left. Sorry lemurs.
On the return trip’s rest stop in Paris, I was determined to test the new Harmon Phoenix II film that came out a few days before I left. I was a fan of the original Phoenix film and was excited to test it out. But how do I do that in a city that I am generally never thrilled to be in? For some reason, I had the thought to go up to the Sacre Coeur, the highest point in the city, to catch the sunset. I probably hadn’t been up there in 13 years. Along the way I snapped some shots with the new film and I really like it. I think it’ll live in my film kit from now on. It has everything I loved from the original Phoenix film, but more refined and useable. Below are some test shots taken with it on the Nikon F3 with the 85mm f/1.4.
