Airport Tarmac Under Dramatic Backlit Sky, Paris

3 October 2017 · Paris

Paris airport apron, mid-day. The sun sits high and hard behind a bank of cumulus, burning a halo through the cloud mass while the rest of the sky holds a deep, saturated blue. Boarding stairs and a ground crew vehicle anchor the foreground in the ordinary machinery of departure — the sky turns it into something else entirely. Functional infrastructure, elemental atmosphere; both fully present in the same frame.