This is an attempt of mine to make a Monet-painting-like photo in Monet’s own garden in Giverny. Photo made on July 5.

I recently visited Paris, France, and a few places nearby. I will post here a few of my better photos from that trip. If you follow me on social media, you may have seen a few on Facebook, Instagram, and Google Plus, but I will seek to also post some here that I have not posted elsewhere.

I start in this post with a photo of the sunset from a Champagne cruise on the Seine, made on June 30. Notable in this shot: Notre Dame, and some serious shade thrown by the clouds.

Some photos I made there:

I was going to do some reading in our gazebo in the perfect late afternoon weather yesterday, when I noticed that simply needed to drag out the iPhone for a quick shot of this lovely backlit foliage.

Some iPhone 6 Plus photos from my neighborhood. Nice to have such nice neighbors who keep beautiful flowers.