Shtory.ie Edward Dunne
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Photograph · 1920 × 865

Rails under the cranes

A port, a railway and a sunset all insisting on the same horizon.

Railway tracks and overhead lines run toward a port of silhouetted cranes beneath a golden sunset.
Railway tracks and overhead lines run toward a port of silhouetted cranes beneath a golden sunset. Southern Spain

Field note

The bit outside the frame.

Ports and railways are great because almost every line in the picture is there for a practical reason.

At sunset the engineering turns graphic: rails, wires, cranes and a bridge stacked against a bright strip of sky.