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Afterglow

Shot from a seawall after the sun had gone completely, in the interval of approximately twenty-five minutes between sunset and full dark during which the sky retains colour. The camera was on a tripod for twelve minutes, waiting for the moment when the gradient of the sky from deep blue at the zenith to orange at the horizon would be at its fullest expression. The sea during that interval was almost perfectly flat.

A sliver of moon — or possibly Venus — is visible high in the frame. The exposure was long enough to resolve the water into a surface almost without texture. The result is an image that is essentially about the relationship between two colours and the line where they meet, with the sea as the floor of the frame and the sky as its entire subject.