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A red London double-decker bus on route 25 waiting on a wet night street beneath strings of blue and white Christmas lights, shopfronts glowing and the road reflecting the whole thing back.

The 25, Under the Lights

London · December 2017

1D X Mark II, 35 millimetres, f 22, 5 seconds, ISO 400

Everything above the bus is temporary.

The lights go up, the street gets wet, and for about six weeks London hands you this for free. The bus is the bit that makes it London rather than any city with a decorating budget — and it sat there long enough at the lights for the reflection underneath to settle.