Michael Wilkins
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A Cycladic clifftop village after dark, white cube houses stacked down the slope lit warm from inside and below, with a blue dome and a pale strip of sea and sky along the horizon.

After the Crowd Leaves

Oia, Santorini · June 2017

1D X Mark II, 45 millimetres, f 16, 30 seconds, ISO 100

The same view, two hours later.

Everyone photographs this at sunset and then leaves, which has always struck me as odd — an hour later the sky has gone to almost nothing and the village is lighting itself, which is the more interesting version. Warm windows, cold horizon, nobody in the way.