the mean streets

for the night photography prompt at 52Frames... extra challenge is "city at night"...

still channelling "noir"... i did get up at stupid o'clock and head down to the lake to shoot cityscapes at night, but delightful as the experience was (thoroughly enhanced by some guy who'd set up this humongous sound system and was playing new age mood music at 100 decibels - srsly - it was actually pretty awesome!), the resulting images didn't really speak to me (although i will post a few of them here to cover off some gaps)...

so i came home and did this...

the silhouette is moi... (hopefully i didn't incur the wrath of the open-umbrella-in-the-house demons), printed it, glued it to cardstock and cut it out... the buildings are staples... the mist is from my mini-humidifier... added some light... and voila!

[Joan Robillard]

Fab

[Joanne Diochon]

Turned out great but did sound like a lot of effort so I’m glad it did.
Got to ask, where was the new age mood music guy located?

[summerfield]

i've always meant to email you last week to see if we can do night shots downtown or mid-town but been so busy i kept on forgetting and when i remembered it was already 9 at night and i'd be home by then. i'm sorry but we'll do it one of these days. i've a hankering to go to the zoo, i'm off this week but plan to take the train to niagara falls. see you around some time.

[Suzanne]

Wonderful. Seems to have taken a lot of time but the effect is worth it.

[Jennifer Eurell]

Well put together! Sometimes things work out well when other things haven't.

[Babs]

Love it, a bit like Mary Poppins with a sinister feel. fav.

[Julie Duncan]

Very creative!

[Walks @ 7]

Exceptionally creative in execution and presentation, HUGE FAV!

[4rky]

Lol Babs hit the nail on the head - Mary Poppins darker alter ego! :)

[Tunia McClure]

I should have gone out at "stupid o'clock" a few nights ago to catch the meteor shower ...but didn't. Good for you for going out.

[☠northy]

@gardencat on the beach! it's a fairly narrow beach... basically a strip of sand and rock... and a strip of grass... he was on the grassy bit... hard to describe... don't imagine an ocean beach... more like a bit of a boardwalk maybe?

[☠northy]

@summerfield same! night shoots are tricky 'cuz i get up so early so am in bed just as it's getting dark... it's a little better now as the days are starting to get a bit shorter though - so let me know if you want to get together at some point... i'd love to do a run to the zoo too, but not until the fall... i cannot deal with the summer crowds!