Category Photography

A concrete jungle: The area where trees and gardens once planted their roots, concrete stands and blocks their view. This is a follow-up blog post to my previous story about the Arcueil allotments. You remember Gisèle’s garden. What I liked…

When I saw this remarkable chestnut tree in L’Haÿ les Roses last Sunday, I immediately felt like tree-hugging. Above all, the warmish afternoon caused the rain to evaporate and created that vaporous background. The photo was left as is.

Arcueil and Bagneux are two suburbs in the South of Paris. A bit of an urban jungle if you ask me. These are allotments in Acrueil. Yet, as if feeding from the concrete, beautiful tulips are growing and reminding us…