London by Night

It’s surprisingly hard to get good photos of a city at night.  Lord knows I’ve tried, and lord knows I’ve failed.  It’s said that a lighting designer should be able to take good photos, as it’s all about colour, contrast, angles etc., but frankly no matter how well-intentioned my composition, I always find that the camera tends to shake.  Which is a shame, as a busy city at night is, quite simply, beautiful.

Therefore!  In a spirit of ‘oh that’s interesting….’ these photos aren’t mine at all, but were taken by my favourite ever technician, Ian, who seems to have a knack for getting nice pictures down far more than me.  (A skill which he perhaps regretted the day his department asked him to take a photo of the same thing every fifteen minutes for every hour of a week, in order to create a stop-motion film of not very much happening over great amounts of time….)