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Yes.
The Mather that won the show last year had pretty much the same rack.
I wanted a narrow platform, that overhung the mudguard by an inch or so either side. I also wanted the rack to be narrowing in appearance (parallel to the line of the spokes, the rack shape to hug the wheel), and then curve outwards at precisely the curvature of the lamp I'd chosen, so that the rack basically integrated the lamp too.
It's inspired by a Rene Herse I'd seen, except the Rene Herse had the lamp set forward of the rack and I wanted mine set fully back into the rack so that when a bag was mounted the front of the light was perfectly aligned with the front of the bag and that the bag neither shielded the light, nor the light stood proud of the bag.
And to add the final level of complexity for Robin, when the racks are removed not a single hint on the frame should suggest racks ever existed. There are no braze-ons or mount-points for the racks or mudguards visible on the bike.
And yeah, no photos of my bike online anymore... least not by me. I haven't worked out the best photo sharing thing for Linux yet. I have 83.8GB of photos (some 19,825 individual photos), and nothing is cost-efficient or useful at this scale. The best tool was Picasa, but as soon as I moved to it Google pulled the Linux version. So now my photos are local only.