Night Lights CHAT THREAD Wkly Comp 2nd - 8th December 2013

[jinky]

Having brought my gorilla tripod on holiday for long exposure / night shots and not even used it I thought I' d set a Night Lights theme. Any kind of lights shot at night and no processing limits. As simple as that.
Pictures to be taken between 00.01am Monday 2nd December 2013 to 23:59 Sunday 8th December 2013.
Pictures to be posted in the entries thread no later than 23.59pm Monday 9th December2013.
Poll will be up Tuesday 10th December 2013.
Winner to be announced Saturday 14th December. 2013.

The Rules for the weekly competition are...

By entering you agree to take responsibility to
Post a topic on the Sunday following your declared win
Create an entries thread
Create a chat thread
Create a poll for that weeks comp and declare the winner on the Saturday
(if for any reason there is a problem and no subject is posted by the winner by Monday night admin will advise second place winner to post the topic asap, do the poll etc.)

In case of a tie, the first entry posted wins.

Photos to be taken during the specified dates, ie Monday xx to Sunday xx

Pictures to be posted in the entries thread no later than 23.59 Monday night.

[Jediboy]

Love the sound of this. Have some time off this week for my birthday so will try to get an entry. Not had much time recently.
I love nighttime photography and the results. 

[Andrew]

Does Bud Lite shot in the evening count? 

[oggalily]

Jinky, does the shot need to be of lights?  Or could it be a creative use of lighting at night?  For example, lighting up a tree with gels (with the actual lights not in the shot).

[jinky]

Stretch the brief as wide as you like  Ogga - as far as I see it is still lights and still night so perfectly OK.
Andrew even Bud Lite would work as long as it was a night shot with creative lighting

[Andrew]

According to a phone call we got at 6am this morning - I'm likely to be flooded out of my 3rd floor flat tonight, so that might make an interest entry! Hopefully Mick is living in the 'upper echelons' of Manningtree

[Jediboy]

According to a phone call we got at 6am this morning - I'm likely to be flooded out of my 3rd floor flat tonight, so that might make an interest entry! Hopefully Mick is living in the 'upper echelons' of Manningtree

Sounds like there is some pretty bad weather on the way. Hope you get through it all well.

[Andrew]

Local news seems to be talking about floods of '53, don't think it's quite that bad. If it is, tolling of the A14 will be nothing to seeing the Port of Felixstowe under water! 

[Jediboy]

Local news seems to be talking about floods of '53, don't think it's quite that bad. If it is, tolling of the A14 will be nothing to seeing the Port of Felixstowe under water! 
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Doesn't sound too good. Fingers crossed for everyone.

It's not too bad here (Northants). Was hoping o get out this evening but its bad enough to keep me indoors. Had a quick attempt the other night. Here's hoping the next few nights are better.

[SimonW]

On Sunday I drove from home to Kettering (almost 400 miles) in about six hours. Yesterday I drove back - it took well over twelve extremely tiring hours, twice as much fuel and about 50 extra miles....

[Jediboy]

On Sunday I drove from home to Kettering (almost 400 miles) in about six hours. Yesterday I drove back - it took well over twelve extremely tiring hours, twice as much fuel and about 50 extra miles....

I'm not too far from Kettering.
And that's one heck of a drive!

[DigiDiva]

Been on a different planet this week - haven't even noticed the theme, sorry. Will try for an entry but im not sure I will manage.

[jinky]

I`ve got one window this evening early on and then wil have top edit what I get tomorrow night. No idea what I am shooting yet. Heavy week one way or another

[kerbside]

After much deliberation over a couple of poss: entries i have gone for this. Just liked how the railings and dark sky drew you into the picture.

The Station Approach

[Hinfrance]

The nearest town is 15 miles, the nearest streetlight more than 5 miles, the nearest road to far and too steep to walk down to in the freezing dark, so I took a few shots of the lights in the sky. I've got this so far, but will have another go tonight if the skies are clear enough.