Paris Esplanade at Golden Hour, Autumn

4 October 2017 · Paris

A public esplanade in Paris, caught in the low warmth of an autumn afternoon. Granite bench platforms step across the foreground in clean horizontal lines; behind them, a brutalist retaining wall runs the width of the frame, its geometric relief panels half-shadowed by plane trees losing their first leaves. The plaza is nearly empty — a figure in the middle distance, a metal barrier left by groundskeepers — which lets the hard geometry and the soft seasonal light hold the composition between them.