A business trip on which I brought both my camera and Samantha. We spent most of the time in Paris where I was working, but managed to squeeze in a day-trip to Claude Monet's house and garden in Giverny (now a museum, of course). The flowers in Monet's garden were in full bloom, as the pictures below show.
Monet's Garden
Garden 2
Garden 3
Garden 4
Sam in the garden 1
Garden 5
Sam on the bridge
Garden 6
Monet's Waterlilies
Sam on the bridge again
Waterlilies 2
Sam in the garden 2
Waterlilies 3
Sam shooting waterlilies
Waterlilies closeup 1
Waterlilies closeup 2
View from the window in Monet's bedroom
Pansies
Sam in front of the Andy Warhol exhibition in the Grand Palais
Sam in front of the Petit Palais
Napoleon's modest little tomb
Inside the dome over Napoleon's tomb
Napoleon's tomb
Napoleon's tomb - see from the lower level
Guarding Napoleon
Invalides
Inside the Quai d'Orsay
Particle accelerator in the art preservation and restoration laboratory in the Louvre
Reliquary under analysis in the laboratory at the Louvre
Louvre laboratory
Lighting laboratory at the Louvre
X-ray images in the Louvre laboratory
Sam and me at a reception
Really overpriced t-shirt at Lanvin
"Elles" - exhibition of women artists at the Pompidou Center
"Elles" - exhibition of women artists at the Pompidou Center