Michael Wilkins
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Clifftop Cycladic village at dusk, warm interior lights glowing in white buildings that step down the rock, a windmill silhouetted on the skyline under a pink and blue sky.

The Cliff at Dusk

Oia, Santorini · June 2017

1D X Mark II, 50 millimetres, f 16, 30 seconds, ISO 100

The ten minutes the whole island turns up for.

The light goes at a pace here that is hard to keep up with: the sky is still pink, the buildings have already gone warm from the inside, and about ten minutes later it is all over. The windmill on the ridge is the shape that tells you where you are without anything else needing to.