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.

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.

The American Economic Review has made the written version of Thaler’s lecture in Stockholm, upon his acceptance of the Bank of Sweden Prize in memory of Alfred Nobel, freely accessible: https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/aer.108.6.1265. It is quite informative and fun to read.

They have some excellent wooden replicas of Philadelphia landmarks in the model railway section. Here is a detail of the top of Philadelphia’s City Hall, featuring William Penn.

Here is an album of photos I made there: https://photos.app.goo.gl/TznK3HHZFODVhLBy1
And one of them for a taste:
