Victoria Monument, Liverpool — Overcast Sky, Sun Through Cloud

9 October 2019 · Liverpool

The Victoria Monument stands at the centre of Derby Square, its bronze figures and domed rotunda pushed against a brooding, cloud-filtered sky. The sun sits low behind the overcast, diffuse enough to silhouette the angel at the apex without burning the stone detail below. A construction crane rises in the background — the monument has outlasted several rounds of the city being rebuilt around it, and it will outlast this one too.