Self-portrait with strobelights Self-portrait with strobelights

Self-portrait with strobelights

At the top of every hour, all night, the Eiffel Tower erupts with strobe lights. (The effect is kind of like when a whole stadium full of people are taking flash pictures.) We took this self-portrait at the top of the tower by opening the shutter for 1/4 second and letting the strobes act as flashes. Unfortunately too many went off in a quarter-second so it's a bit blurry.


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Blog: More of Paris
Date: July 4th 2005

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