They are the silent bystanders in so many pictures of Paris.  The various styles of traditional cast iron lamp post are city icons, lending an immediate sense of place to a Paris photo. Receding from view along streets, staircases and quays a line of lamps gives a sense of perspective to an image and highlights a change in level.  Lamp posts feature in so many of my Paris photos that I decided it was time they had a post of their own.

 

Hollyhocks by Port de l’Arsenal – June 2015
The towers of the Conciergerie at dusk – October 2015
Spring green – April 2016
Street lamp street art – September 2015
Lamp and angel – March 2016
By Canal St Martin – January 2016
Ssh… December 2015
Summer rain on Pont des Arts – May 2016
Springtime music – Pont des Arts – March 2017
Summer evening at Val de Grace – July 2016
A grey day at Notre Dame – March 2016
Street trees in Boulevard Magenta – March 2017
Hotel de Ville – April 2016
Morning light at Place de la Bastille – November 2016
And evening at Pont Alexandre III – February 2017

 

Click on any lamp post to view the gallery.