Eye Prefer Paris Tour Photos: Kari Raaen and Jodi & Chelsea

Kari Raaen is a professional photographer specializing in child and family portraits. She was referred to me by a good friend in New York who told me Kari was one of her best friends and was coming to Paris.Kari specifically wanted a tour with good photo ops and I promised her my tours were full of them. Along the way, Kari fell in love much like I did with all the beautiful doors we passed. She started to shoot them and inadvertently choose mostly blue ones. I told her it would be great to do a blue door series for my blog. Most of the doors are located in the Marais and Ile St. Louis. Take a look at Kari’s wonderful portraits on her site.
www.kariodellphotography.com

I had a fun afternoon with former New Yorker Jodi and her daughter Chelsea, on spring break from college, who now live in Boca Raton, Florida. It was one of those typical schizophrenic weather days in Paris where the sun was shining one minute and the next it was pouring rain. So in between the cloudbursts we ducked into the Marais’s high fashion shops and Jodi and Chelsea did some major damage. One of the stops was Lobato, the top shoe boutique in the Marais with labels Pierre Hardy, Marc Jacobs, Lanvin, and Martin Margiela among others. Jodi tried on a stunning pair of Easter egg blue and dark brown shoes with a large gold buckle. Being the classic shopping enabler, I told her that there was no question about it: she must buy them. Here’s a photo. Wear them well Jodi.

I am pleased as punch to announce the launch of Eye Prefer Paris Tours, which are 3-hour walking tours I will personally be leading. The Eye Prefer Paris Tour
includes many of the places I have written about such as small museums & galleries, restaurants, cafes & food markets, secret addresses, fashion & home boutiques, parks, and much more.

I look forward to meeting you on my tours and it will be my pleasure and delight to show you my insiders Paris.

Check it out at www.eyepreferparistours.com

Comments

[Kari Raaen Roberts]

Hi Richard!
It was so great seeing the photos on your blog!
Thanks for the amazing tour and fun afternoon! :)

Kari