From the river, the Eiffel Tower sits differently in the frame than it does from any land-based position: the Seine gives the composition a horizontal foreground that changes the tower from a vertical subject into one element of a wider arrangement, the water and the stone embankments and the Left Bank rooflines all contributing to a scene in which the tower is present but not sovereign. In monochrome on the Leica M11, the river loses its color — the gray-green of the Seine's famous tint — and becomes a surface of reflected sky, the tonal relationship between the water and the iron of the tower resolved in shades of silver and gray that neither color would have permitted. The informal river approach is the view that Paris residents know: not the canonical Trocadéro axis, but the water's-edge view, the tower glimpsed between bridges and houseboats and the planes of the embankment walls. B&W gives this familiar angle a weight that the tourist-brochure color version withholds.