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White Cycladic buildings stacked down a hillside in bright daylight, with blue domes, terracotta and ochre walls, and a windmill on the ridge above.

Oia in Daylight

Oia, Santorini · June 2017

1D X Mark II, 28 millimetres, f 7.1, 1/1000 of a second, ISO 100

Everyone waits for the sunset. This is the other version.

Everyone photographs this village at sunset, which is fair enough, but in flat daylight you can actually see what it is: white cubes stacked on a cliff with no two of them square to each other. The blue domes are the bit everyone remembers; the ochre and terracotta in between are the bit that makes them work.