When I'm not designing, I take photographs. A slow habit: light, texture, and people who aren't looking at the camera. Same job as the rest of this site, really: deciding what to keep.
21 frames, and I'll admit the pattern without being asked. Most of them are the same twenty minutes after sunset, taken from whatever roof or window I happened to be near.1I own a lot of photographs of one sky. The titles are mine. They are not descriptions.
A bare twilight sky graded from deep blue at the top to pink at the horizon, with a thin crescent moon and one low wisp of cloud.
An abandoned turquoise flatbed truck with a canvas canopy, parked in an overgrown field beside a road under a pink and orange sunset.
An empty roadside stall built from raw timber under a green tarpaulin, standing in tall grass with mountains behind it at dusk.
A full moon low in a lilac sky behind the pitched roofs and balconies of a row of apartment buildings.
A clear deep blue sky with a slim crescent moon and a few thin clouds catching the last light.
A city skyline at dusk under magenta cloud, with unfinished high-rise towers on the left and a mountain ridge behind.
A cove seen from above: turquoise water over pale rock, wooded cliffs, a small boat, and a road switchbacking down to the shore.
A wide band of dusk sky grading from blue to amber, holding a crescent moon and a single bright planet.
A dense field of stars across a near-black sky, with no horizon in the frame.
A crescent moon over a dark mountain ridge, under a magenta band of sky, with a tower block and tiled rooftops in the foreground.
Rooftops of a hillside town in violet haze, with an orange strip of afterglow along the horizon behind them.
Skopje at dusk from a hillside: lit streets and buildings below, Mount Vodno on the horizon, tree canopy across the bottom of the frame.
A night market at sunset: white peaked tents, people between the stalls, and a single lit bulb hanging from a wire across the top of the frame.
The same view over Skopje earlier in the evening, the sky still blue, the city lights just coming on below Mount Vodno.
Rooftops in near-darkness under a deep blue sky, a faint crescent moon low over the hills and a few lit windows.
A bright moon high over a city at night, with a lit avenue running between blocks of flats toward distant hills.
An orange sky over low rooftops, with a pair of pale high-rise towers standing against the mountains.
A gilded tray of tulip-shaped tea glasses and lidded sugar bowls on a wooden table, lit warm against red curtains and white sheers.
A beach in full daylight: dune grass on the sand, a timber beach bar on the rise above it, thatched parasols and a clear blue sky.
A grand neoclassical building with domed corners and arched windows, photographed from across the street at sunset as two cyclists pass.
A tower crane beside an unfinished high-rise, both dark against lavender and pink cloud.