Champs-Élysées Autumn Afternoon, Paris

4 October 2017 · Paris

The Champs-Élysées on a cloud-broken autumn afternoon: pavement cafés packed, plane trees thinning to yellow, and two Danish flags flying large above the Haussmann limestone. The boulevard does exactly what it always does — holds a crowd without ever feeling crowded. Paris keeps the architecture monumental and the street level human, and somehow both things are true at once.