{"product_id":"river-liffey-dublin-city-reflection","title":"River Liffey Dublin Cityscape Photography at Dawn","description":"\u003ch2\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eBlue Hour Reflections Across the Heart of Dublin\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe reflections were what stopped me. Long ribbons of white, gold and red stretch across the River Liffey, turning the dark water into something far more luminous than the city above it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI made this photograph looking along the river through central Dublin, with the city still caught between night and morning. A deep blue sky hangs over the buildings while streetlights trace both banks of the Liffey. The river becomes the centre of everything, gathering those lights and pulling them downward into elongated reflections.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat interested me was the symmetry without everything being perfectly symmetrical. Buildings line both sides of the water, bridges draw the eye toward the centre, and the river creates a strong visual path through the city. Yet every reflection behaves differently. Some are narrow and precise; others dissolve into broad strokes of light.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe quietness of the scene matters to me as much as the colour. Dublin is a busy city, but at this hour it feels unusually still. The architecture remains present without overwhelming the river, while the saturated blue overhead gives the warmer lights along the streets an almost theatrical contrast.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI have always liked photographing cities when their familiar character changes for a few minutes. Here, the River Liffey is not simply running through Dublin. It becomes the photograph's dominant surface, holding the city upside down in fragments of colour, light and movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: normal; color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\" data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"\u003e\u003cem style=\"caret-color: #333333; color: #333333;\"\u003e© Dan Kosmayer, 2019\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dan Kosmayer Photography","offers":[{"title":"8 × 20 inches (20.3 × 50.8 cm)","offer_id":40608150749263,"sku":"","price":49.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"10 × 24 inches (25.4 × 61.0 cm)","offer_id":40965136875599,"sku":"","price":59.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0552\/9685\/2047\/files\/River-Liffey-Dublin-Cityscape-Photography-at-Dawn-1.jpg?v=1792185199","url":"https:\/\/dinkosmayer.com\/products\/river-liffey-dublin-city-reflection","provider":"Dan Kosmayer Fine Art Photography","version":"1.0","type":"link"}