The starting line

The starting line. 2020.

From ground level a running track is about speed and effort. From above it becomes something quieter and more abstract. In this photograph the four numbered lanes and crisp white lines turn into a simple grid of red and green, a chart of possibilities rather than a record of any particular race. The symmetry and clean colour blocks give the scene a calm, almost ceremonial feeling, as if the moment before the starting gun could last forever.

10.3 mm · 1/800 sec · f/4.0 · ISO 100.