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Streets and shops with a not so perfect camera

In the streets of Paris, the camera had to focus on a shop window, a color, a nicely written name, a bicycle parked somewhere, an apartment window decorated with geraniums, a door, an arch...

There is no way I can publish hundreds of pictures.
Just a few are enough to inspire.











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