I had the perfect composition in mind: a lone cyclist framed in the central arch, the details of the bridge picked out by sun and shadow and a metro train passing on the upper deck.

 

pont de Bercy metro train

 

Cyclists, trains and sunshine came and went…  but not at the same moment…

 

pont de Bercy cyclist Paris

 

I walked up one side of the bridge and down the other…

 

 

never quite catching the image I had in mind…

 

pont de Bercy Paris horses

 

but then I hadn’t imagined this one.

 

Another response to the Weekly Photo Challenge Layered

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