paris by night

I have lots of photos to sort out from my trip, here's a couple of shots of paris by night to start with:





In case it isn't obvious, the second photo shows a "Vélib'" bike rental station. Each bike dock has a green diode when the bike is there and ready to use (I assume), so at night, when all the bikes are there, the whole row gets this nice green glow reflected in the wire baskets. By day, the bikes get used a lot, one sees them whizzing about everywhere.

I've also just uploaded a new photo to fotocommunity.

beauty of fractals

... time to break up the series of text posts with a picture, here's in praise of natural fractals:



Oddly enough this tree stands in Oxford city centre (Jowett Walk), on a small patch of land that is probably a College garden and really to small for it.