I didn’t take many colour pictures on my early trips to Paris. The one film that I exposed in 1966 was also exposed to the less than pure water of the lake at Versailles for an hour or so and then allowed to dry (or not) in the camera. Since the film processing was included in the cost I sent them away to be developed. They came out, but with a certain amount of staining and unevenness and an overall brown cast.
In 1973 I took rather more colour and with less dramatic faults, but not a great deal more interest. Linda was keen to have some visual material to use with language teaching, so I was taking pictures of everyday objects like post boxes, of shops, of postman delivering letters and so on for this purpose, as well as more conventional tourist images.
I think most of the cololur was probably taken with the Olympus SP, with its fixed slightly wide-angle lens whenever we went anywhere I though would be of interest photographically. We did go to Versailles again, but this time I kept hold of my camerasm taking rather too many pictures both inside and outside the chateau.
We came back to Paris a couple of times in the next few years, but I didn’t take many pictures as we were just passing through. In 1974 we were on our way to Provence and went around the city by train, and in 1975 we were on our bikes. Again we didn’t stay long in Paris, simply making our way from the Gare du Nord to the Gare Montparnasse in the early morning rush hour to catch a train on to Angers from where we cycled up the Loire valley. It was a few years before I returned to photograph Paris again.