Towns That Face the Water

Coastal towns paint themselves bright for practical reasons that became aesthetic ones — fishermen finding their houses in fog, boats matched to family colours. Centuries later the paint remains, and photographers arrive at dawn to collect the interest.

These frames gather stacked facades, masts in silhouette, harbour water doing its slow shuffle of reflected colour. Human-scale scenery: no monuments, just accumulated decisions that turned out beautiful.

As wallpapers they are warmer company than pure landscape — evidence of people, without the people. A lit window in a photograph is worth a certain amount per pixel, and these are rich in them.