Outdoors at Night: All the images were taken with white balance set at "Daylight" apart from the "Arena" and "Canary Wharf" pictures which were taken on a Canon S90 compact set at Auto white balance. The rest were taken with a Canon EOS 1D Mk111 and either a 17-40mm zoom, or 100-400mm zoom. All were taken using a tripod or some other makeshift support.
1. Scarborough South Bay: the blue of the twilight contrasts nicely with the yellows of the seafront lights.
2. Castle Headland from Holbeck (where the hotel fell into the sea): some of the different coloured lights are more evident.
3. The Harbour from Holbeck: a 400mm telephoto shot showing the different coloured lights, the green and red for navigation. A ship is passing on the horizon - no doubt lit by fluorescent lights.
4. The Lighthouse: illuminated by halogen spotlights for effect, but the interior lights are tungsten, and the light itself is quartz-halogen and very blue.
5. Diving Belle: if you look at the last image you can see her by the lighthouse tower. She is illuminated by the spotlights with reflection off the white walls of the tower. The night sky reflects the tungsten and sodium lights of Scarborough.
6. Olympia Leisure: how many colours do you want?
7.Money money: They'll take your money, but not always use it for upkeep.
8. Prizes: not exactly worth the effort or expense to get one. The fluorescent light has accentuated the greens though. Very Martin Parr.
9. Hotel front: the repeating window pattern highlighted by the floodlights caught my eye.
10. Car trails: a long exposure from the Spa Bridge. The blue trail is from and expensive motor with those fancy blue headlights.
11. Arena: my daughter lives in Germany and does Dressage. Whilst she was riding round and round in ever decreasing circles, I went outside and caught this at dusk. Most fluorescent lights these days are daylight balanced and do a pretty good job, so the green tint is becoming uncommon.
12. Humber Bridge 1: nice reflections and starbursts from the lens diaphragm (no funny filters used). Verticals, horizontals and curves, too.
13. Humber Bridge 2: the blue stars of Orion's Belt in top right of frame contrast with the yellow bridge lights.
14. Humber Bridge 3: it got a bit more interesting when a ship went by, lit by fluorescent tubes. This was a 30 second exposure.
15. Canary Wharf: couldn't do this exercise without a cityscape at night. We were staying at the Hilton opposite. Most of the lights are fluorescent.
There is no image of an interior store or shopping mall. The only mall in Scarborough has a glass roof and is lit by daylight this time of year, and it closes at 6pm. I could have gone into the underground car-park and took some boring pictures of parked cars lit by strip lights, and got mugged - so I didn't.
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