Waiting to open

Waiting to open. 2023.

I liked how this little strip of sky ended up squeezed between two bands of building, the red canopy pressing down and the closed doors holding the bottom edge. Everything is shut, sealed, waiting for business that has not started yet. The geometry is almost too neat, rectangles stacked on rectangles, but the soft blue and the small cloud stop it from feeling completely rigid. It sits in that familiar nowhere of light-industrial estates, where colour and design are trying their best to dress up a place that is really about storage and routine. The picture is less about the building itself and more about that quiet pause before activity, when the doors are still down and the day has not quite begun.

35 mm • f/5.6 • 1/160 sec, ISO 200