Canal de l'Ourcq Promenade, Paris in Autumn

4 October 2017 · Paris

Canal de l'Ourcq stretches toward a low bridge at Parc de la Villette, the water flat and pale under an open autumn sky. A barge sits moored on the left bank; on the right, a dense avenue of trees lines the towpath where a handful of people move slowly in the afternoon light. The canal does the work a street can't — it pulls the eye forward without a single hard edge, and the city behind it stays soft, almost incidental.