Impossible Project PX680 - 07 Nov 2012, Paris

Pont des Arts, renowned the world over for the thousands of 'Love Locks' attached to the fence and railings by couples making a public declaration to one another. 

Amongst them the enigmatic message, "I was waiting for you". 

Were they the plaintive words of someone broken-hearted, written for the lover who never appeared for a rendez-vous? Or were they an affirmation of romance, finally discovered after a lifetime of searching? 

You decide.

Impossible Project PX680 - 07 Nov 2012, Paris

Rooftops and rays of light. The view towards Ile De La Cite as the sun tries to break through the racing clouds of late autumn.

Perhaps showing a little too much influence of another photographer I admire...

Impossible Project PX680 - 06 Nov 2012, Paris.

With two sets of Japanese tourists posing as though they were holding or carrying the Eiffel Tower, I suddenly found myself struggling to get back far enough and open the polaroid camera in time.

Just as I did, a girl on a scooter magically appeared in the frame... 

"Tonight Matthew, I am going to be.... Henri Cartier-Bresson!!"