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Underneath the Eiffel Tower at Night

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  • 10001110101, on 01/30/2008, -13/+50So.. Why is it uncommon? Are people not allowed to walk beneath the tower?
    • SeaMowse, on 01/30/2008, -6/+24No, it's just that it's uncommon to see a picture taken of the Eiffel Tower from that angle. The Eiffel Tower is always seen looking straight on. It's interesting to see it from this perspective.
    • Mr.Scientist, on 01/30/2008, -2/+25Not uncommon at all (just search flickr for eiffel tower). The spot right underneath the tip of the tower is even marked on the ground. There is a park on one side of the tower, so you don't even have to watch out for traffic while you look for the perfect perspective.

      BTW, publishing this image is very likely illegal, because it is primarily a picture of the illumination, which is copyrighted. I'm not kidding: "Photos taken at night when the lights are aglow are subjected to copyright laws, and fees for the right to publish must be paid to the SETE." (quoted from the FAQ at the official Eiffel Tower website http://www.tour-eiffel.fr/teiffel/uk/pratique/faq/ ... )
      • directrix13, on 01/30/2008, -0/+2Maybe for cheese eating surrender monkeys. I kid, I kid!!
      • Mr.Scientist, on 01/30/2008, -1/+1Another factual comment dugg down...
      • Prototek, on 01/30/2008, -0/+1I guess they had to buy the electricity to make the photons that develop your film. None of those free photons from the sun illuminating your object.
        • Mr.Scientist, on 01/30/2008, -0/+1The tower itself is too old to be subject to copyright, but the illumination concept is not. Unlike the USA, France does not have an exception to copyright for public views of buildings.
    • Scuba, on 01/30/2008, -0/+2My thoughts exactly - when I was there at night there were hundreds of tourists taking this same shot. Well taken though.
    • scottie369, on 01/31/2008, -0/+0most people do not have cameras
  • NYC83, on 01/30/2008, -14/+4a sphincter says what?
  • anniemcgrathy, on 01/30/2008, -5/+17I just saw the tower again after 8 years and I was blown away. Its so breathtaking.
  • ophello, on 01/30/2008, -5/+69what you dont see from this angle is the mob of whining tourists and immigrants trying to sell you bottled water and wind-up birds.
    • doublsh0t, on 01/30/2008, -1/+14and little eiffel tower keychains, though they're pretty decent cheap souvenirs really
      • elpohl, on 01/30/2008, -2/+1Hey, its 1 EUR for 3! Once you tell this to an american, they don't regard those keychains with the same love.
    • Kronos6948, on 01/30/2008, -1/+6There's a killer crepe stand not that far from the Eiffel Tower. I recommend the ham and swiss or the nutella ones. Friggin awesome. They'll speak english if you don't speak french.
      • matthewf01, on 01/30/2008, -0/+1Hell yea Nutella crepes. Ate so many of those after flying to Paris to see a Pumpkins concert.
      • rabuksak, on 01/30/2008, -0/+1yes! the stand next to the carousel. great crepes, indeed ... and made from scratch right in front of you. a must to try if you haven't already.

        /sigh ... it's been too long since i had one of those.
      • MatchStick, on 01/31/2008, -0/+1maaaan, i miss paris...
    • KingBabi, on 01/30/2008, -1/+4"You speak English?"
    • bobbob1016, on 01/30/2008, -0/+1And the rude cab driver who in a thick french accent says he doesn't know how much it would cost to drive to the Louvre, and implies it'd be extra money since it is too close, even though you have an 80 year old walker-bound woman with you, then curses at you in perfect New-York english as you walk away. This was pre-9/11 by the way. Sorry, was that too much from personal experience?
      • TheOther1, on 01/31/2008, -0/+2No amount of bashing the French is too much.
        • pp7k, on 02/01/2008, -0/+1I've spent several weeks in France, and never once ran into the prototypical rude Frenchman. Generally people ranged from indifferent to very nice, pretty much the same as here (Canada). Also, while far from fluent I understand enough French to know when I'm being insulted behind my back, and never heard anything of the sort. Now I'm sure there are probably lots of rude French people, but if I can spend weeks there and never meet one how common could they be?

          Most of the rudeness I've witnessed in my travels originates with the tourist being impatient or having unreasonable expectations. And I'm sorry to say that these people are most often Americans. I'm not America bashing (even though some people think no amount of America bashing is too much), I've met lots of perfectly nice Americans and some not-so-nice non-Americans (often Germans, Brits, and Canadians) but there is a very vocal minority that make Americans look bad all around the world.

          Perhaps it's just the fact that these people have pride. In some countries desperately poor people have to eat ***** and smile for tourist dollars, but the French don't and won't. Even the guy working at a fast food joint (yes, they have them) will tell you to go ***** yourself if you talk down to him. Good for him.
    • kwulf, on 02/01/2008, -0/+1I'm one of those $5 bottled water purchasers.... That thing is tall and you get pretty thirsty once you make it back down.
  • JoshScanlan, on 01/30/2008, -10/+11I'd hit it
  • masternave, on 01/30/2008, -5/+5Beautiful. Thanks digg.
  • lenninct, on 01/30/2008, -2/+5rush hour 3 gives you better takes than this, but ok...
    • ajb2015, on 01/30/2008, -1/+2at least with this you don't have to sit through a painfully terrible plot and listen to chris tucker's cringe-worthy voice
  • YamiJim, on 01/30/2008, -6/+4I see Paris, I see France......
    • CedEx, on 01/30/2008, -0/+1I can see your underpants! *looks behind* oh god... Chris Hansen, say it isn't you!
    • duggtodeath, on 02/01/2008, -0/+1Doesn't it go, "I see London, I see France...?"
  • JohnnyRad, on 01/30/2008, -3/+9i use this same perspective for my camera phone "art photos"
    • fluidfoundation, on 01/30/2008, -0/+4yeah, but in France all you'd get is a picture of big bush.
  • KraftDinner101, on 01/30/2008, -9/+2Title should have said "Under Neat Da Eiffel Tower At Night"
  • xbytes, on 01/30/2008, -5/+31I don't see why this is so special, it is a nice shot but not anything digg-worthy.
    • CrackWilding, on 01/30/2008, -1/+3Yeah, because digg is so full of great content.
  • banido, on 01/30/2008, -5/+25"But I'm le tired."
  • lewhich, on 01/30/2008, -2/+2Links to wallpapers of the Eiffel Tower at night are welcome
  • YamiJim, on 01/30/2008, -6/+2Whoops double post.
    • poidh, on 01/30/2008, -1/+5Naaa, you just fell on your sword because your previous comment was getting buried and you knew that this one sucked even more.
  • RSS14, on 01/30/2008, -9/+2It looks likes a big french pussy.
    • fluidfoundation, on 01/30/2008, -1/+4yeah, I see it... full of steel.... and tourists... JUST like one.
    • CurrentResident, on 01/30/2008, -0/+1Hairy?
  • ssj2119, on 01/30/2008, -3/+11Seriously - another one of these underneath a structure photo's that everybody goes wild about - what the big deal?

    What is uncommon about it?
  • chrisbosh123, on 01/30/2008, -6/+1it looks like a HUGE strap on dildo with lights
  • poidh, on 01/30/2008, -9/+4Won't be there for much longer. The Muslims have been plotting to blow it up, resulting in enormously beefed up security, leading to higher costs for everyone who wants to climb it. Thanks Muslims.
    • blackjack75, on 01/30/2008, -0/+1You being an idiot aside, it's important to note that the guys who brought down the twin towers were mostly attacking symbols of economic power (from which derives the military and the corruption of their home country: Saudi Arabia). Those guys might be heartless enough to kill thousands of innocent people but they are not stupid enough to attack the wrong symbol.

      Attacking the Eiffel tower would be just like attacking the statue of Liberty: it doesn't make any sense unless your ennemy really is human ingeniosity.
  • wcarolyn, on 01/30/2008, -1/+2What's so special about this? Lots of people took the exact same photo... and this one has horrible noise in it. In fact, this is a duplicate of a famous black and white eiffel tower photo that they used to sell as posters.
  • ryanknapper, on 01/30/2008, -2/+1Eiffel Tower
    under neat that
    Night
  • Closeminded5228, on 01/30/2008, -2/+10I'd much rather be under this Eiffel Tower:
    http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=eif ...
    • slicky803, on 01/30/2008, -2/+13FYI: If you're the one "under" the tower, you're the one getting skewered by two guys.
      • Closeminded5228, on 01/30/2008, -1/+14Crap. Digg should lengthen the comment edit time to 2 hours. For situations like these.
    • moikai, on 01/30/2008, -0/+2thanks, you made me laugh :)
  • insurgente, on 01/30/2008, -1/+2The work of the proletariat is amazing.
  • cbeach, on 01/30/2008, -2/+6Nice perspective but the shot is blurry and grainy at full-size. No real photographic talent. Not digg-worthy.
    • jevidon, on 01/30/2008, -0/+1and a little color correction could go a long way... :P
    • Kronos6948, on 01/30/2008, -0/+1I guess you have to have a Flickr account to see it full size?
      As far as color correction goes, it looks exactly as I remember it.
  • mal1964, on 01/30/2008, -1/+1"I'm uh ... near the Eiffel Tower and the New Year's celebration is unreal Fireworks there at the Eiffel Tower. A mass of people all playing American pop songs."
  • dshep727, on 01/30/2008, -5/+1maybe you'll like this one too:
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/45854224@N00/74995583 ...
  • devnulluk, on 01/30/2008, -2/+6and a copyright infringement as well http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiffel_Tower#Image_co ...
    Shocking
    • pheared, on 01/30/2008, -1/+1Flickr is in the US, so is it really an infringement? (US Code does explicitly allows images to be published of copyrighted architecture in public, FTA.) I don't know where the photographer posts images from, as the Internet does make this sort of idiocy murky.
  • neocognitism, on 01/30/2008, -3/+1One would never think much of the tower without seeing it in person. It really is downright sublime in its curves, and awe-inspiring. Normally we think of bare metal wireframe objects like that as monstrosities. Only a real artist could design something that leaves one just amazed at how good-looking the thing is.

    Oh wait, the government of France didn't go along with the Iraq War. ***** the French and ***** that ugly metal monstrosity, which is a blight on their crap city of Paris!
  • crlarkin, on 01/30/2008, -9/+5Mine is better, http://www.flickr.com/photos/larkin/90498772/in/se ...
  • GamerX, on 01/30/2008, -2/+2this is kinda goatse, don't you think?
  • mikhon, on 01/30/2008, -1/+4why is this on the front page?
  • buddamus, on 01/30/2008, -1/+1Looks rude (my mind is just to dirty today)
  • agm2004, on 01/30/2008, -2/+0I was in europe a couple years ago. Paris is a very beautiful city, the eiffle tower as well. My friend took some pictures of the all framework when were up there, they're pretty cool lookin shots.
  • LoudMusic, on 01/30/2008, -2/+2Holy Grainy Photo, Batman!
  • mdcarso, on 01/30/2008, -1/+2Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't posting this picture a copyright violation.
    Trademarked Buildings, Monuments & Landmarks:
    The intellectual property laws of this category can sometimes be confusing. It is best to research the structure before uploading. For instance, photographs of the Eiffel Tower during the day are legal, but not night shots (showing the light show).
  • DaveTehWave, on 01/30/2008, -1/+2buried as LAME
  • SteveTheSultan, on 01/30/2008, -2/+0Looks like a goatsee
  • wh00dini, on 01/30/2008, -2/+2Here are other's that I took a little over a year ago.
    http://flickr.com/photos/myke/312281134/
    http://flickr.com/photos/myke/312279034/
    http://flickr.com/photos/myke/312279622/
    http://flickr.com/photos/myke/312280216/
  • sdresser, on 01/30/2008, -3/+1This one is MUCH better:

    http://digg.com/travel_places/MUCH_BETTER_shot_fro ...
  • nad1a1, on 01/30/2008, -2/+0why is it popular?lots`of pictures of this structure exist.
  • arbouler, on 01/30/2008, -1/+2http://www.flickr.com/photos/akmal-naim/345994154/
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/akmal-naim/342848378/
  • Jfox386, on 01/30/2008, -2/+0Very fascinating......
  • xtremesniper, on 01/30/2008, -1/+2I'm not a fan of these people who upload photos to Flickr, don't allow anyone to view a size bigger than "too small to appreciate the details", and submit it to digg as something "uncommon" even though everyone and their dog has a photo from that perspective.

    It's a nice photo, especially due to the night photography aspect, but it's as unique as my profile pic of the CN Tower. (It's not).
  • darlyn, on 01/30/2008, -1/+2Upskirt?
  • jwcaldw, on 01/30/2008, -2/+1I wondered why I was getting so much traffic on my shot of the Eiffel Tower today, I had linked it in the comments on this pic-

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/mr-universe/394494544 ...
  • gapotter, on 01/30/2008, -1/+1You can't hear the immigrant peddlers saying "Bling Bling" pointing out light up plastic models of the tower - which is fine my me! I took a similar photo when I was there, directly under the center, pointing up.
  • sarahpalmer, on 01/30/2008, -1/+2why are people worshiping this photo and this guys other flickr photos?
    that's the thing about flickr I don't understand. I see fantastic photographers with zero comments on any of their photos, then there are the mediocre (at best) photographers on flickr who have a ton of contacts who worship their every move. 132 favs? seriously?
  • x713, on 01/30/2008, -0/+4Many people take pictures like this... everybody is always trying to get creative with the Eiffel tower. Nothing new... not even worth the front page.

    Buried as LAME
  • BartS, on 01/30/2008, -0/+13Why the ***** do I get some Yahoo crap telling me to sign up?
    • Virgule, on 01/30/2008, -0/+3its illegal to freely publish nightly pictures of that tower. Don't laugh its true.
    • kronborg, on 01/31/2008, -0/+6He's right, at http://www.tour-eiffel.fr/teiffel/uk/pratique/faq/ ... it says:
      Q: Is the publishing of a photo of the Eiffel Tower permitted?
      A: There are no restrictions on publishing a picture of the Tower by day. Photos taken at night when the lights are aglow are subjected to copyright laws, and fees for the right to publish must be paid to the SETE.
      How uncool is that.
  • Virgule, on 01/30/2008, -0/+1evil bad copyrite infringement d-d-d-d-ddetected gnaaaaaa
  • MSPT, on 01/31/2008, -0/+2Laying on the ground underneath with a wide angle lens bitchez!

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/theler/2215654760/in/ ...
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