I don't know how many times over the years I have taken this picture.
Or tried to take it.
It's harder to take than it looks.
This decoration is at the terminal west end of the Louvre.
The Seine is to its left in fact but where the Seine and the sun - a major player in this picture - are, need to be understood differently.
The Seine is doing a big loop around central Paris at this point.
Imagine a straight line from the mountains to the English Channel with a loop down off that straight line.
The Louvre Lion is just about at the bottom of that loop.
The sun is over on the left shoulder of that loop, it being sundown.
And all a camera man need do to get a perfect picture of that lion is get the light wheel on his Sony camera set correctly.
I think I did pretty well.
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