I can't tell you how beautiful it was on this night. Seventy degrees after midnight - even most summer nights aren't this warm! You walk outside, and the temperature is perfectly comfortable, even without any clothes on, or the sun to warm your skin. Plus, the full moon was shining from a nearly cloudless sky. A truly enchanted evening. I just wish the blasted street lights weren't there to interrupt the visual tranquility.
A perfect night for moon-tanning. ;-)
It's eerie how different familiar places look in the dark of night, especially illuminated by the pale light of the moon, instead of the sun. It's also amazing how much the moon can brighten a night-time scene. The full moon may put superstitious people on edge, but the deepest, darkest nights occur during the new moon.
Here's the difference between exposing for the street lights (above), with the figure in the foreground backlit by the moon, and shooting a scene fully bathed in moonlight (below) - what a shadow!
And then there's the unnatural orange glow of technology (below). Unfortunately, the neighborhood is so lit up by night there's really no room for skulking about in the shadows, even in my own front yard. I mean, if that deters criminals, that's all well and good, but must safety come at the cost of ruining the atmosphere of night?
I'm definitely much happier with these shots than the ones I got the last time I shot long exposures outdoors at night.
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