If you're on a tight budget in an expensive city, you save your money for museum admissions and Metro fares. In Paris, we rented a little flat and cooked our meals there, with fresh ingredients from the market. In a town where a hot dog is seven bucks and a coke is five, our food and wine budget for a week was in two figures.
My plan was to make lots of pictures. I have a very expensive camera, bought in better days. Right after we arrived, it died. The mirror fell out. In the City of Lights, full of the sweet shadows of mid-December, I had only my back-up, a little point-and-shoot. After a couple of hours of self pity, I reminded myself that I preach living small. Why not a small camera? Stretch it and see what it can do.
This photo was taken with the toy camera. That's one reason I like it. The other is that these guys are just there, on the grounds of the Louvre, doing nothing, living small.