Jiangnan Water Town (Day)

a lane in an original Ming–Qing Jiangnan water town: a narrow canal of still green water running along the left edge with a stone embankment and granite mooring posts, two-storey whitewashed houses with black timber window frames and dark grey tile roofs lining the far side of the canal, stepped horse-head gable walls rising between them, a humpbacked single-arch stone bridge crossing the canal in the far distance, a wooden-shuttered shopfront with a blank wooden signboard and two unlit red paper lanterns on the right, granite flagstone paving along the lane, a small wooden boat moored empty against the left bank, and an empty stretch of flagstones in the centre about four metres from the camera