Paris - Pont Alexandre III - 7me

Plate LI - Steps of the Alexandre III Bridge…

With some twenty-eight bridges crossing the Seine in greater Paris, the Pont d’Alexandre III is to many, the most beautiful of them all.  It was here that I really confirmed that Paris was going to consume a fair metrage of film stock, for as soon as I thought I had a picture perfect view of the bridge and had taken a photograph, I’d decide only metres further on that I had been wrong, and only now had the ideal angle.

Of course a few more paces and I’d realize I had been wrong again, or had I?

After a short walk along the quayside of the Seine, mounting the steps on to the bridge I had little idea what visual pleasures lay ahead. In many visits to Europe I have been awed by the time and care craftsmen put in to their work. What will future generations think of the legacy left by the late twentieth century? And will they have the same endurance?