Canal de la Villette at Golden Hour, Paris

4 October 2017 · Paris

Canal de la Villette stretches south toward the Paris skyline, the low sun burning a clean line across the water's surface. Contrails cross the sky above; the Géode's dome sits in silhouette on the right horizon, a punctuation mark against the tree line. The canal towpath carries its usual late-afternoon scatter of walkers and cyclists, unaware they've become part of the composition. It holds two things at once — the city's industrial waterway bones and the soft, generous light of a Paris evening.