Michael Wilkins
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A concrete arch bridge with a balustraded deck spanning a steep rocky gorge, a blue-green river far below, pines and russet autumn scrub on the gorge walls and a bare scree-covered mountainside rising behind.

The Arch and the Gorge

June 2019

iPhone X, 6 millimetres, f 2.4, 1/300 of a second, ISO 16

The river is a long way down.

A phone frame from the bank, level with the deck. The arch does the work: it lifts the road clear of the walls and leaves the river to find its own way through underneath. Late-autumn colour on the far side, evergreens on the near, and a scree slope behind that makes the whole structure look smaller than it is.