Late night long exposure

Preparing for the Chinese New Year's parade

I was heading home. The parade organizers were trying to get organized. This involved an array of spotlights usually seen at sporting events.

The effect was striking.

Stanford Lamp Post by night

This was a shot with my small Sony point-and-shoot. As such, a non-flash photo after sunset is somewhat outside its competence range. Even so, with some aggressive smoothing in post-processing, the mood I wanted to capture still stands.

Philadelphian oil

On the final approach to PHL, we fly over quite a bit of oil infrastructure. In the middle of the night, these become quite photogenic.

Game night at AT&T

As I returned from Stanford one early evening, the vision from AT&T Park is positively gorgeous:


Amazingly, it almost got even better at my first attempt; when the dark made the camera fail to pick up on the right focus point in time for the shot:

Erect glass and light sculpture

Proudly it stands, jutting up from the hyperelliptical round-about drawn originally by Piet Hein. The Crystal Vertical Accent in Glass and Steel lights up, accentuating it's own almost phalloidal shape in its gnarly, knobbly glory.

It makes you want to ... well, celebrate. Really.

The mating call of the Taxi Cab

As the night falls, and when the season for mating has arrived in the early fall, the taxi cabs go out cruising the streets  until they find an appropriate mate, at which time an elaborate dance begins: both to ascertain the actual gender of the other cab, and to show off the own splendour and suitability for a mate.

Stockholm city lights

For my 30th birthday, an abstract view of Stockholm city lights, as reflected on the water running through Central Stockholm.

Stockholm Royal Castle — by night

The Stockholm Royal Castle. By night.