More pictures of Paris… and an adorable little French girl I spotted chasing pigeons around right outside Notre Dam… and the Eifel Tower too…

…for the purpose of sparking a conversation about color and art and perception and photography…

Because colors bring out feelings, they evoke memories, they symbolize emotions…

If you remove all the color from this image, does it make it feel colder? Does it give it more depth? Does it change the way you feel about what you are seeing? We evolved to see colors. Our eyes are a magnificent and stunning achievement of nature. When people can’t see colors, we call it color blindness… and that seems to be a telling choice of words.

But we also must remember that, in this series of posts, we are playing with colors…

So we can’t get too serious, now can we?

The eye-full tower… sorry… the Eifel Tower… is also a stunning achievement of nature, because nature created our ability to create. But when you take the colors away, all except that of the leaves, is that where your eyes are drawn first?

Or did the tower still capture your eye?