Light over the stacks

Light over the stacks. 2021.

Containers pile up like oversized building blocks, solid and heavy, while the stadium light floats above them like a thin metal flower against the sky. Most of the frame is empty blue, so the colour bands of orange and navy feel almost temporary, as if they could be rearranged overnight and the scene would change completely. The white dome just peeking in on the right softens the industrial edges, giving the composition a small curve to lean on. It is a simple corner of the Port Melbourne yards, held at that quiet hour when work has paused and the light makes even freight and floodlights feel deliberate and carefully placed.

70 mm • f/5.6 • 1/400 sec, ISO 64