Lovelocks and a Selfie Acrylic Print

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I'm not sure why a cheap and flimsy 'love lock' on a bridge in a foreign city signifies something as strong as everlasting love but thousands and thousands apparently disagree with me! The 'original' bridge for leaving a love lock in Paris France was the Pont des Arts. However, the charm wore thin as sections of the elegant fence on the Pont des Arts crumbled under the locks' weight and had to be removed. The bridge carried several hundred thousand locks estimated to weigh more than 45 tons. But the problem is not unique to the Pont des Arts -- there are more than one million locks on at least 11 bridges and other landmarks, including the Eiffel Tower. Here is a section of the pedestrian bridge across the Seine, the Passerrelle Leopold-Seder-Senghor. I wondered what the story was for this young woman taking a selfie. You make up your own!

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Protected with PIXSY About Joan Carroll: I am a Fort Worth Texas-based outdoor photographer who feels at home while on the road...in Texas, in the US, around the world. Although travel and photography were dual interests from a young age, the coming of the digital camera provided undreamed of opportunities and unleashed previously untapped creativity. My photographic goal is to travel the world in a curious yet respectful way, taking the time to see and understand the unique story of each place I visit. Wherever I go I want to walk every street, hike every trail, ride the bus or metro, climb every tower, walk around and through every monument, and then do it all over again when the light changes. In every place, light, mood, color, and...