Stephen Wilkes Day to Night: Eiffel Tower, Paris 1036 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle

Paris from dawn to dark, thunderstorms included at no extra charge.

Stephen Wilkes photographs a single place from one fixed position for many hours, then blends the frames into one image that moves from daylight to night across the scene. For this one he set up on a crane in front of the Trocadéro, looking across to the Eiffel Tower, and sat through two thunderstorms to get it.

The day-to-night gradient is the clever part and the hard part. The light shifts gradually across the image, so the sky and the city change colour piece by piece rather than in neat blocks. The tower gives you a spine to build from; the sky will take longer than you would like to admit.

Perfect for: Anyone who has been to Paris and come home with four hundred photos of the same tower, none of them quite right.

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