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Photograph of a black-and-tan Cavalier King Charles Spaniel lying front-on on wet cobblestones in a London street, wearing a red and white fleece harness, city lights blurred behind.

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London · November 2024

1D X Mark II, 70 millimetres, f 2.8, 1/500 of a second, ISO 3200

Wet cobbles, warm bokeh, and a dog with absolutely no interest in either.

Ayra on the cobbles on a November evening, shot from her eye level — which means lying down on a wet London street, which is the entire technique here. The long lens pulls the shopfront lights behind her into soft discs and the cobbles go to texture. Front-on and symmetrical because a Cavalier's face is symmetrical and fighting that is a waste of everyone's time.