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scarlet sails

spbnight
location
saint petersburg
camera
phone
a crowd on the neva embankment at night, phones raised, the scarlet-sailed brig lit red on the water
a crowd on the neva embankment at night, phones raised, the scarlet-sailed brig lit red on the water
the searchlights were brighter than the ship
blue hour by the water, a girl walking along a fallen log while city lights streak across the bay
after graduation, walking home the long way

The one night the whole city stays up. We watched the brig come down the
Neva from the embankment, in a crowd where every second person was holding a
phone over their head — this frame included.

Afterwards we walked until it got light. The second shot is the better one.