Paris Boulevard Street Scene with Plane Trees

4 October 2017 · Paris

A busy corner on a Paris boulevard, where pedestrians pause and mill about beneath a canopy of late-summer plane trees. The iron gate and ornate lamp post anchor the left of the frame; a coach waits along the tree-lined avenue behind them. The trees are the real subject here — three distinct species in one frame, each at a different stage of the season, green still holding against the first hints of amber. The city moves through them as it always has.