Maybe it was because I had just seen some interesting photos taken of people seen from above. The photos were by André Kertész and are currently on display at the Musée National d’Art Moderne, the museum is housed in the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Click here for examples I found online of some of Kertész’ works of this type.

Anyway, we visited that exhibit in the morning. Later in the day,  after we’d eaten lunch at the restaurant at the top of the Centre Pompidou, I took some cityscapes of Paris, which are the type of photos I usually take when looking at a city from high up. I posted a few of those in a previous post; here a couple more:

Cityscape, from the top of the Centre Pompidou, Paris

Eiffel Tower, from the top of the Centre Pompidou, Paris

However, as I said perhaps I inspired by that exhibit that we’d just visited. Whatever the reason, after I took the cityscapes,  I glanced down — and spied a scene that seemed ripe for a photo. I liked it both for the patterns of the people on the ground, and also for a little bit of the play on perspective that was visible in the viewpoint. You see, the top strip with the spiral was close to me, attached as part  the railing that I was looking through to see the people down below.

See what you think.

Scene from above at the Pompidou