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Boston

Boston's skyline, the Tobin Bridge and Storrow Drive, mostly after dark, with city lights drawn out into long exposures.

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  • A city skyline across a river at night under low violet clouds, its lights reflected on the water.
  • Black-and-white long exposure of clouds sweeping over a low city skyline and smooth, dark water.
  • City lights and highway light trails at night, seen through a torn chain-link fence.
  • Beneath an elevated highway, concrete columns stand in still water that reflects the underside of the road.

New York City

The George Washington and Manhattan bridges, the Oculus at the World Trade Center, and the city's skyline at night.

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  • Looking up into a circular skylight lined with curved reflective panels, a gridded opening at its centre.
  • Black-and-white suspension bridge lit at dusk, its cables lined with lights, city towers and light trails along the river below.
  • Black-and-white long exposure of a suspension bridge seen from the riverbank above, its lattice steel tower lit against streaking clouds.
  • Black-and-white night view of a dense skyline and a suspension bridge, traffic tracing light along the waterfront.

London

Tower Bridge, Big Ben, King's Cross, Leadenhall Market and St Paul's, plus aerial views of the city and its modern architecture.

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  • A towered bridge at night, traffic light trails sweeping across the road toward its illuminated arch.
  • A facade of curving white horizontal fins, warm light showing in the windows between them.
  • A dark facade of dense horizontal louvres, a few windows glowing warmly behind them.
  • Black-and-white silhouette of a Gothic palace and its clock tower above a darkened bridge and river.

Paris

The Eiffel Tower and the Arc de Triomphe at night, and the glass and steel of modern Paris.

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  • Glass office towers at night beside a highway streaked with red tail lights, trees dark in the foreground.
  • Black-and-white night view of a curved office building above a highway interchange traced by light trails.
  • Black-and-white view up into a vast steel-and-glass canopy, a central spine dividing two mirrored fields of beams.
  • Black-and-white long exposure of a monumental triumphal arch at night, traffic streaking past in rivers of light.

Liminal Spaces

Liminal spaces are the in-between places that lead somewhere else, like tunnels, walkways, stairwells and parking ramps. Without people in them, they take on a strange, quiet stillness.

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  • Black-and-white glass-and-steel tubular walkway seen straight down its axis, arched ribs repeating to a bright vanishing point.
  • An enclosed walkway with curved ceiling ribs and glass walls, stretching into the distance.
  • A curved tunnel lined with pale tiles and ceiling lights, a lone figure with a suitcase walking away.
  • Black-and-white concrete parking ramp curving around a central cluster of columns.

Bridges

The bridges of Boston, New York, London and Paris, from the Tobin and the George Washington to Tower Bridge, by day and by night.

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  • A towered bridge at night, traffic light trails sweeping across the road toward its illuminated arch.
  • Black-and-white suspension bridge lit at dusk, its cables lined with lights, city towers and light trails along the river below.
  • Beneath an elevated highway, concrete columns stand in still water that reflects the underside of the road.
  • The underside of an elevated steel roadway at dusk, its beams and columns dark against a pale sky, lit trees and grass on the bank.

Astrophotography

The Milky Way, star fields and an aurora, photographed under dark skies across New England.

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  • The Milky Way across a dense field of stars above silhouetted treetops.
  • Black-and-white long exposure of a lighthouse on a rocky islet, its beam rising into a star-filled sky.
  • Green and red aurora over silhouetted trees beside a white clapboard building with a cupola, under a starry sky.
  • Black-and-white Milky Way rising behind power lines and a utility pole.

Abandoned Places

Abandoned institutions, factories and tunnels across Massachusetts, slowly being taken back by trees and ivy, and covered in graffiti.

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  • An abandoned brick building almost entirely covered in ivy, a white cupola rising above it, framed by trees over a green lawn.
  • The interior of an abandoned industrial hall, steel roof trusses and scattered debris in raking light.
  • Abandoned industrial silos and a weathered conveyor structure surrounded by overgrown vegetation.
  • A tunnel covered wall to wall in vivid graffiti, its arched ceiling narrowing to a dark opening.

Black & White

Architecture, cities, long exposures and night skies in black and white.

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  • Black-and-white long exposure of clouds sweeping over a low city skyline and smooth, dark water.
  • Black-and-white silhouette of a Gothic palace and its clock tower above a darkened bridge and river.
  • Black-and-white glass-and-steel tubular walkway seen straight down its axis, arched ribs repeating to a bright vanishing point.
  • Black-and-white night view of a curved office building above a highway interchange traced by light trails.