Piazza della Repubblica after midnight, when the square finally empties and the fountain has the place to itself. A long exposure turns the jets to smoke and the curved colonnades on either side hold the frame together. The bronze naiads caused a genuine scandal when they were unveiled in 1901 — considered far too lifelike — and now nobody walking past gives them a second look.

Naiadi
Rome, Italy · December 2019
1D X Mark II, 28 millimetres, f 22, 30 seconds, ISO 200