Tall Pines and Mixed Canopy in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris

4 October 2017 · Paris

Tall pines and a mixed autumn canopy fill the frame above Route de Neuilly in the Bois de Boulogne. The trees push upward into a partly cloudy Paris sky, their scale made plain by the slim arc of a street lamp curving in from the right. A green directional sign for Porte de la Muette sits low in the frame — the city's infrastructure embedded in what reads, from this angle, as deep woodland. The Bois de Boulogne holds both things at once: a working urban forest and a genuine stand of tall timber.