2012 was a tough year to pick a “best” photo from. For starters, I shot a lot of “good” photos this year and, in addition, I did my first real photojournalism since Iraq when I covered Hillary Clinton’s visit to Senegal—and some of those photos are still in my portfolio on this very website. So why this landscape photo?
Well, for starters, it remains one of the best landscape photos I’ve ever done, in this year or any other. It was taken in Paris during the Nuit Blanche festival when a number of government or private buildings are open to the public. In this case, I shot this from the Paris City Planning Offices which have a great terrace on the 13th floor. The only problem was, I got here so late, the lights on the Eiffel Tower had already gone dark for the night. But still, in terms of portraying “The City of Light” this photo works better at telling its story than any other I took that year.
4eme arrondissement, Paris. Oct. 6, 2012.
