Montmartre, Paris (A large hill on the Right Bank) By Paul Goldfinger. Reposted from 2015.
GERRY MULLIGAN “Home when shadows fall”
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Montmartre, Paris
Posted in Blogfinger Presents, Photographic Gallery France, Photographic Gallery, Black and White, Photography by Paul Goldfinger, Photography Gallery France, tagged Montmartre Paris on September 9, 2026|
Ancient Roman aqueduct still stands in France.
Posted in Blogfinger Presents, Photography Gallery France, Photography: Black and White gallery, tagged Pont du Gard. on April 16, 2026|
Paul Goldfinger Photo. Pont du Gard in southern France. Click onceto enlarge. Tri-X collection.
Roman engineers designed this 3 tier aqueduct in the first century to provide water to the Roman colony of Nimes. It was used for centuries, but now it is mainly a tourist attraction. We posted a closeup of its structure on Blogfinger . The link is below.
After the Roman slaves finished building the aqueduct, they had a big party, and the band played this song with Annie Siegel:
Place de Vosges, Paris
Posted in Photo gallery: Europe, Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photographic Gallery France, Photographic Gallery, Black and White, Photography Gallery France, tagged La Romance de Paris, Place de Vosges Paris on November 7, 2025|
Paris. By Paul Goldfinger, MD. Click once for full view .
CHARLES TRENET. “La Romance de Paris.”
Younger than springtime…
Posted in Photo gallery: Europe, Photographic Gallery France, Photographic Gallery, Black and White, Photography Gallery France, Photography Girls in their summer clothes, tagged Cyrus Chestnut on Blogfinger on September 24, 2025|
Paris. By Paul Goldfinger. c.1995. © Click to enlarge.
CYRUS CHESTNUT. “Polka Dots and Moonbeams” from his album A Million Colors in Your Mind.
Portrait of Eileen: Paris West Bank.
Posted in Music from the movies, Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photographic Gallery France, Photography Gallery France, tagged Portrait of Eileen in Paris on March 6, 2025| 1 Comment »
Somewhere in Paris, on a rainy afternoon, a French chef speaks to Eileen. She is speechless. Paul Goldfinger photo Click once to enlarge.
MICHAEL GIACCHINO, composer of the “Main Theme” from the film Ratatouille
“Grandmother’s Note” : A poem by Charles Pierre
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Hi Paul:
Greetings from Manhattan. Over fifty years ago, my grandmother said a few things to me shortly before she died that I knew would eventually find their way into a poem. Here is “Grandmother’s Note” from my 2008 collection, Father of Water.
Best wishes,
Charles Pierre
Paris. By Paul Goldfinger © Click to enlarge.
Grandmother’s Note
By Charles Pierre
Looking for less with each added year,
I’ve begun to live in the small space
that surrounds me now, in the shadows
that gather at my feet and follow
as I walk along, and in the breezes
that take my shape for an instant,
leaving nothing but gentle creases
in my hair and a cool ripple
over my skin. Expecting little,
I go where my handwriting leads me –
become just a sound, a word, a phrase,
part of the impression on the page
for a moment, not an old woman
with the obvious lines of age, but
a clear thought in this surrounding space
CAL TJADER: “The Night We Called it a Day”
Charles Pierre. Photograph by Marcella Kerr. ©
Room with a view
Posted in Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photographic Gallery France, Photographic Gallery, Black and White, Photography Gallery France, tagged Paris museum Blogfinger on October 25, 2024|
Medici Fountain (1630) April in Paris?
Posted in French Connection on Blogfinger, Photographic Gallery, Black and White, Photography by Paul Goldfinger, Photography Gallery France, Photography: Paris, tagged Singers Unlimited, The Medici Fountain---Paris on July 26, 2024| 3 Comments »
By Paul Goldfinger, M.D., Editor, Blogfinger.net. Photograph caption below:
It’s April in Paris, right now. And it is a fine time to visit that most romantic of cities, but sometimes April there can dip down to the 40’s—sound familiar?
And, despite Yip Harburg’s lyrics for “April in Paris,” chestnuts in blossom don’t happen until May, and nobody is setting “holiday tables under the trees.”
In Luxembourg Gardens, blooms are starting to pop in April, and they have a bandstand there.
However, choose May to visit Paris.
This song, “April in Paris” was written by Yip Harburg and Vernon Duke for a 1932 Broadway show called, Walk a Little Faster.
“I never knew the charm of spring
I never met it face to face
I never knew my heart could sing
I never missed a warm embrace
“Till April in Paris.
Whom can I run to?
What have you done to my heart?”
What have you done to my heart?”
Harburg also wrote the lyrics for “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.”
Many have recorded “April in Paris,” but this is Kurt Elling’s version from his album The Messenger.
Songs and candles in Paris
Posted in Blogfinger Presents, Photography Gallery France, Photography: Paris, tagged Paris candles on May 2, 2024|
Paul Goldfinger ©. Paris. Tri-X collection. c.1980. Click to enlarge.
JOSHUA BELL. “Songs My Mother Taught Me” by Antonin Dvorák.
La Vie en Rose
Posted in Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photographic Gallery France, Photography Gallery France, tagged Photograph of Paris on Bloginger, Sophie Milman on Blogfinger on April 10, 2024|
Tuileries Garden. Paris. By Paul Goldfinger. Silver gelatin darkroom print. © Click to enlarge. Blogfinger.net
SOPHIE MILMAN
Lovely to look at…
Posted in Music from the movies, Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photographic Gallery France, Photographic Gallery, Black and White, Photography Gallery France, tagged Fred Astaire on Blogfinger on February 27, 2024|
Paris. By Paul Goldfinger ©
Lyrics to the song. “Lovely to Look At” left out of the Astaire version below:
“What appeals to me
Is just your charm and dignity,
Not what you wear,
But just an air, of great repose.
You are quite perfect from your head down to your toes
Both night and day,
I am moved to say.”
FRED ASTAIRE: From “Lovely to Look At” (A song by Jerome Kern with lyrics by Dorothy Fields.)
Saint-Sauveur Cathedral, France
Posted in Photograph by Eileen Goldfinger, Photography Gallery France, tagged Aix-en-Provence France, St. Sauveur Cathedral on December 24, 2023|
St. Sauveur Cathedral in Aix-En-Provence, southern France. Their organ is from 1745. Eileen Goldfinger photo.
JOHN COLTRANE: “I Wish I Knew” (1945) by Harry Warren (music) and Mack Gordon (lyrics). These two composers paired up to provide music for many Broadway shows and movies.
This song, “I Wish I Knew” was featured in the Betty Grable and Dick Haymes movie Diamond Horshoe. Another standard from that movie is “The More I See You. ”
“I wish I knew someone like you could love me
I wish I knew you’d place no one above me
Did I mistake this for a real romance?
I wish I knew, but only you can answer.”
The D’Orsay Six: Everything old is new again
Posted in Blogfinger Art Department, Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photographic Gallery France, Photography Gallery France, tagged Musé D'Orsay Paris on October 15, 2023| 2 Comments »
Outside courtyard at the Musée D’Orsay in Paris. Nothing new under the sun. Paul Goldfinger ©. Tri-X collection. Click on image to enlarge.
The Musée D’Orsay is an art museum on the Left Bank in Paris. It has a large collection of Impressionistic and Post-Impressionistic masterpieces.
Those bare breasted women in the image above, probably early 20th century beauties, are relaxing in the Paris sunshine, proudly displaying their loveliness. And the other three women, the warm blooded variety of today, are enjoying their company without evident embarrassment.
The photograph above shows that nothing changes—that everything old is new again.
PETER ALLEN