After coming out of a 14 day quarantine under a 44 degree desert sun, it was of course time to hit the water for a sunset sojourn at the Louvre Abu Dhabi. It's probably the third or fourth time I've shot the Louvre Abu Dhabi, and certainly the first time from the water, and for that matter, the first time in colour. My black and white shoots were stunning, made easy by the sheer beauty of the building, its setting, its elegance, and its unadulterated allure, that is irrefutably effective as one keeps coming back for more. This time around I had to publish the colour shots as the effect of the setting sun filtering through the rooftop, shimmering on the water and hiding behind the impossible structures deserved not to be diluted. This place never gets old, in contrast to the Louvre in Paris, an even more modern masterpiece, this one clinging to the side of the desert, a visual cacophony of juxtaposed shapes, media, and meaning that mean everything and nothing at the same time (an almost perfect progression from a pyramid in a square). Finding such a place in such a place is undoubtedly a modern miracle, and inside such a place in such a place is undoubtedly a modern masterpiece, a wondrous single span ceiling interlocked in a ceiling interlocked in a ceiling, or so it seems. Not one to marvel, but this place is marvellous, smooth on the outside, stunning on the inside, is the future is built on sand? If the Louvre Abu Dhabi is anything to go by, yes it is, and I absolutely love it!
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