Quintessential Paris Fashion Week - (high) heels marching over the yellow gravel covered parisian walkways. Shows presenting the Fall 2013 season finished on Wednesday after a week of fashion frenzy and an endless flow of champagne at each soirée privée. Trends on the Paris runways included pastels, over-sized coats and of course, la petite robe noire.

The end of February and beginning of March marks les Vacances d'hiver in France. That means, many French families are heading au ski. Some popular ski destinations in France are Val d'Isere, Les Deux Alpes and Courchevel. The French Alps, where this photo was taken, have a wide variety of skiing conditions, which is one of the reasons they are so popular. This black and white image captures the cloudy tipped-mountains in a moment of calm.

Lately I've been spending a lot of time at Père Lachaise Cemetery where I'm working on a short art video. Each time I'm there I'm reminded of its beauty. It's the city's largest cemetery, and it's filled with wandering cobblestone alleys, crooked trees, scattered sunlight and the sound of crows, making it an amazing place to roam. One million people have been buried there, according to the city of Paris' official website. Some of the famous gravesites include Abelard and Heloise, Chopin, Edith Piaf and Oscar Wilde.

One of the best things about art is the exchange that comes from putting something out there. Just such an exchange happened in response to last week's photo, which captured a rainy evening in Paris through the glass wall of a bus stop. I was contacted by a Bonjour Paris reader who saw my photo and then shared this rainy Paris photo of his own...

I took this photo on a rainy evening last week on my way to a vernissage (gallery opening) for the exhibition of one of my favorite photographers. I got off the metro at Invalides to take bus no. 63 along the Boulevard Saint-Germain which would drop me off near the gallery. It was just after 6pm as I was waiting for the bus to show up, and I noticed that the Eiffel Tower was in it's hourly sparkle state. The raindrops on the bus stop's glass facade refracted the light from the tower and the oncoming traffic headlights. That combined with the early evening sky of blues and purples made for a picture perfect Paris evening.

This past Sunday, over 100,000 people took to the streets of Paris in support of the Marriage Equality Bill. The manif took place on one of the first sunny days the city has seen in a few weeks. Police say that there were 125,000 rally participants, but organizers of the event put the number at 400,000. The bill, which the French government began to debate early this week, proposes that gay couples be entitled to the same rights as straight couples.

It's been a snowy week in Paris, so I was particularly drawn to this image, titled la fille du b(l)anc, taken in the Luxembourg gardens. It reminds me of a scene from a French new wave film...

Here's a photo of a polaroid I took today while photographing the French poet Lysiane Rakotoson in les Jardins du Luxembourg. As part of a project I'm working on which focuses on contemporary women poets, it was a pleasure to photograph Lysiane on this sunny yet chilly January afternoon.

After a week of non-stop rain in Paris, this photo hits the nail on the head. The photographer used a very shallow depth of field to create a focus on one thing only - the fine constellation of raindrops on his office window. In photography, depth of field is the range of distance that appears acceptably sharp. It is controlled by the camera's aperture, which is the width of the lens opening. A large aperture creates a short depth of field (such as in this photo) and a small aperture creates a long depth of field. The view, a bit hard to decipher, is of la Maison de la Radio to the right, and the Seine and le pont de Grenelle on the left.