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Two swimmers walk along the chain-fenced wall of an ocean pool at sunrise, silhouetted against a golden haze over the sea.

Walking the Wall

Bondi Icebergs, Sydney · February 2017

EOS 6D, 105 millimetres, f 4, 1/1000 of a second, ISO 100

Commuting, the eastern-beaches way.

The morning haze went gold from the horizon up, and the pool wall became a walkway between two kinds of water — the flat lanes on one side, the working sea on the other. Two swimmers crossed it in silhouette, unhurried. I stayed on the dark side of the light and let the figures carry the scale.

Part of The Sydney Coast, a series.