Castlefield Canal Basin, Manchester — Dramatic Summer Sky

1 October 2019 · Manchester

The sun forces its way through a broken cloud layer over Castlefield, haloed and diffuse above the canal basin. Narrowboats sit moored along the quay; two Canada geese cross the open water below. The Victorian brick warehouses hold the middle ground between the modern skyline and the surface of the canal — industrial heritage still doing the work of anchoring a city that keeps building upward.