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Photograph looking up at a row of tall palm trees in silhouette against a sky graduating from deep teal at the top to orange at the horizon, the low sun flaring between the trunks.

Palms

Los Angeles · September 2019

1D X Mark II, 35 millimetres, f 11, 1/60 of a second, ISO 100

Teal at the top, orange at the bottom, and nothing in between but trunks.

Shot straight up the trunks at dusk, when the sky in Los Angeles does that full graduation from teal overhead to orange along the horizon in about fifteen minutes. The palms go to pure silhouette, which is all they need to do — they are a shape everybody recognises instantly and they are not native here either, which nobody minds.