lord_whimsy once told me it was his favorite museum in Paris. The place is amazing, and while I didn't take a whole lot of pictures, I absolutely had to try to get a halfway decent shot of Clément Ader's incredible bat plane.
There was no way for me to get far enough away from it to get the whole thing in the shot or get a decent composition. Still, I think you can see how beautiful the thing is even from this cramped shot (not to mention the building itself!). I'd heard about this plane so many times before I saw it with my own eyes, I'd sort of forced myself to imagine something much more practical-looking and less fantastical, but I was very pleasantly surprised by how ridiculous and dramatic the design of the thing actually is.
( Two more shots of the bat planeCollapse )