July

Over the water, into the water

The bridge was built to carry people over water. She chose to enter it. That small refusal changes the terms of the portrait. The city loses its authority as the light runs out; the evening belongs to the person willing to get wet.

Woman at a red railing under a great red bridge, hand in her hair, evening sun on the water

Woman in a black slip dress and linen coat at a riverside railing beneath the bridge

Woman raising a hand against the low sun, cable shadows striping her face

Woman on red-railed steps in hard evening light, shadows laddered up the wall

Woman in a black slip dress on a stairway in golden light, wet strands at her face

Woman in gold evening light under the bridge girders, cable shadows raked across the wall

Woman in a black dress at a red rail in the last direct sun, half of her already in shadow

Very close portrait at sunset, feathered earrings, eyes straight into the lens

Close portrait of a laughing woman on the bridge at dusk, city lights coming on

The river at sunset from the bridge, a pleasure boat heading up the channel

Dusk portrait, wet strands on her shoulders, face lit by the afterglow

Laughing woman pulling her black dress over her head against the pale river

Woman laughing with her head thrown back as she pulls off the dress at dusk

Silhouette of a woman wading into a still river at sunset among the weeds

Woman with wet hair glancing back over her shoulder in the blue hour, dress slipped low

Woman with soaked hair at the water's edge, eyes lowered, the river dark behind

Half-lit figure against the pale evening water, hand at her shoulder

Silhouetted woman at the river in failing light, strap fallen from her shoulder

Woman leaning towards the lens in the last light, wet curls, bare shoulders

Wet hair curling over a bare shoulder at dusk, a river leaf stuck to the skin

Woman lying in dark water among lily pads, face turned to the sky

Wild yellow flowers on the dark riverbank at nightfall

The river at nightfall through dark leaves, last colour on the water

Silhouette of curls against the last light on the water

Woman with damp hair facing the lens in deep dusk, river and bridge lights behind

Woman tilting her head at the night river, the sky still pink at the treeline

Woman in black at the dusk river, tower lights on across the water

Woman in a loose black dress on the darkening embankment, towers lit across the river

Close dusk portrait, city lights dissolved into coloured points behind her

Woman with wet hair at the embankment at blue hour, the red bridge lit behind her

Woman with wet curls under the lit span of the bridge at night

Woman at the red rail above the black river, bridge lights scattered on the water

Close portrait under sodium streetlight, wet curls, eyes wide

Woman in black on the night bridge under a run of streetlamps

Woman on the bridge roadway at night, the lit arch curving away behind her

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