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Watch day turn to night in these breathtaking photographs

Stephen Wilkes wants you to get lost in his sweeping, time-bending cityscapes

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by Kelly Gonsalves
September 20, 2017

Campanile di San Marco, Venice.

(Stephen Wilkes)In a single photograph, Stephen Wilkes bends time.This is no easy feat. Each photograph is a composite of about 1,500 images taken from a fixed location.First, Wilkes chooses

Kumbh Mela Festival, Haridwar, India.

(Stephen Wilkes)Once Wilkes has his day of photographs, he and his team spend months sifting through the images, selecting the best elements — the most breathtaking cloud formations, the most

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Campanile San Giorgio, Venice.

(Stephen Wilkes)Wilkes has been working on the series, aptly called Day to Night, for eight years. And while each image compresses time, Wilkes said the project is actually meant to slow thin

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Tour de France, Paris.

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Tulip Fields, The Netherlands.

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