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Shooting brutalist facades in overcast weather turns out to be the opposite of a compromise. Flat light removes the drama of hard shadows and leaves only the geometry, which is what the buildings were arguing for in the first place. These were taken over three
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read more →Thirty seconds is long enough for a river to become a surface and a crowd to become weather. I have been trying to find the threshold where motion stops reading as motion and starts reading as texture, and it moves depending on how far away
read more →The working harbour empties out for about forty minutes between the night shift leaving and the first deliveries arriving. Everything is still lit for work but nobody is working. It is the only time the cranes look like sculpture rather than equipment.
read more →A typeface is a set of arguments about how much attention a reader owes you. Most of the decisions that matter happen below the level anyone consciously notices: the width of a lowercase n, how far the commas hang, whether the numerals sit on the
read more →The old version was fine, which turned out to be the problem. Nothing was broken enough to force a decision, so every small improvement got deferred indefinitely. Starting again is mostly a way of making the deferred decisions unavoidable.
read more →This post has no feature image and no public tag. It exists to show two things: that it appears in the archive list, and that it is invisible on the photography grid because Edge's loop template gates every card behind an if feature_
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