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As far as we can tell, summertime beach trips are just fraught with contradictory compulsions. For instance: you want to enjoy the sun, but you don’t want skin cancer. Likewise, you want to swim in the salt water, but then you’re all sticky and salty and won’t really feel comfortable until you shower. And then [...]

Predominantly a feature of hideously disposable and generic suburban and highway architecture, gas stations are rarely much to look at. This dependable lack of visual appeal, strangely, makes them a popular challenge for photographers, doing their best to make something ugly look pretty or interesting.
Fortunately, every so often someone designs an innovative gas station to [...]