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Night photograph of Regent Street in London under its Christmas light installation, illuminated angel-wing decorations strung overhead and red bus light trails streaking along the wet road below.

Regent Street, December

London · December 2017

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

Wet road, warm lights, and a bus going through at the right moment.

Regent Street in December, shot from the middle of the road between traffic lights with a long enough exposure to turn the buses into red ribbons. The lights have been going up here since 1954 and the installation changes every few years; what does not change is the wet tarmac, which doubles everything and is the only reason a London Christmas photograph works at all.