Paris Boulevard Street Scene with Plane Trees in Autumn

4 October 2017 · Paris

Plane trees line a Paris boulevard in late autumn, their canopies still dense enough to filter a flat, overcast sky. A white coach bus idles at the kerb while pedestrians cross the cobbled street in front of Haussmann-era facades. The boulevard does two things at once — it moves the city and slows it down, the ironwork fences and dressed-stone buildings holding the pace to something deliberate.