ナショナルジオグラフィックのインスタグラム(natgeo) - 10月4日 01時45分

Photo by @williamalbertallard // Most afternoons I’d make a stop at my favorite wine bar, La Tartine, on Rue de Rivoli. One rain-threatening day, in 2002, I was with my friend Beryle Mayfield, the somelier at Duner’s, one of my favorite restaurants in Charlottesville, Virginia. Beryle truly loves Paris and knows the city far better than I. He was in town for a while, and we had decided to go to the wine bar Les Fous d’en Face for what was billed as “the first annual running of the Camembert.” This proved to be a contest in which rounds of Camembert were placed on a tilted sheet of aluminum; heat from a small blowtorch was applied to the underside of the sheet, and lo, the individual cheeses would begin to run, sliding slowly, very slowly, downward. Music was then played, and most of the people present seemed to enjoy it far more than Beryle and I.

We decided to leave and walk down Rue de Rivoli to La Tartine, where more than 60 wines are available by the glass. Just as we arrived, the darkened sky gave way with a tremendous downpour of rain. And then, with the rain still falling heavily the sun came out, and the light was brilliant and the color of champagne. I stood in the doorway of La Tartine, looking out over the empty terrace tables. A student passed by, a portfolio under her arm. Across the avenue a man dashed through the rain for cover. I tried to capture the wonderfully exceptional light, desperately hoping for success. I made just a few frames before the magical light expired.

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