June 17, 2009 9:00am Dramatic angle, perspective, and impenetrable darkness from behind create a sense of danger, as if some lurking presence might sneak up behind you at any moment, in spite your untroubled, Bohemian air ... though what I like most about this shot is its cheeky subversiveness, in having appropriated all of these charming images / cliches of French culture - artistic, elegant, uninhibited - and taken them to the gloomiest and "deadest" region of the City of Light where only the vampires can enjoy them (assuming Anne Rice wasn't making it up). ;)