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A tall decorated Christmas tree hung with gold ornaments standing in front of a floodlit neo-gothic city hall, its spire rising into a dark blue sky between bare branches.

The Tree and the Tower

Vienna · December 2017

1D X Mark II, 35 millimetres, f 22, 30 seconds, ISO 250

Two kinds of gothic, one of them temporary.

The Rathaus is already doing a lot before anyone adds anything to it, and then in December they put a tree in front that competes on its own terms. Shot between the bare branches because the clean version of this frame is on ten thousand postcards.

Part of Night Cities, a series.