Shoot 'Em Up

The only set of pictures I ever posted on Flickr were the ones from Paris back in 2005 with B. That's when he had just purchased his digital SLR and was getting all jiggy with it. I put up his stunning images into one folder, along with my crappy ones taken with a tiny point-and-shoot. Then I proceeded to forget all about them.

Until now. I just received an email from Schmap informing me that one of the pictures of St. Sulpice church was chosen to be included in the fourth edition of their Paris guide! There's no monetary compensation, but B gets credit as the photographer. I have to concede that Schmap is implementing some brilliant business tactics. I mean, each touristy locale has a ton of pics culled from regular folks off Flickr, and you can imagine how much traffic is generated from all the excited people blogging or sending out the link to their friends. Not to mention the money the site itself saves from not having to hire photographers or buy stock images.

The shot shows the interior of the church,
and was taken a couple of days before Christmas.