Photographing the Garden at Large
Grand Canal—The grand garden of the Parc de Sceaux lies just outside the boundaries of Paris, France. Designed by André Le Nôtre (see pages 26–33) for Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Louis XIV’s minister of finance, this garden presents the formal symmetries of the French style at its finest.
On a gray day, I rode the regional train from downtown Paris to the Parc de Sceaux. Wandering among the mesmerizing reflective canals and ponds, the gray sky began to break up into spectacular cloud formations and I made this image of reflections in the Parc de Sceaux’s Grand Canal.
Nikon D800, 15mm Zeiss Distagon, 1/250 of a second ...
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