City lights
Howard Mason

City lights

September 2022

Fantastic composition and use of straight lines, pattern and timing to create a really strong image.

The colour from the warm lights becomes a yellow glow and the subject adds a great sense of scale. Also enjoyed the contrasting yellow/blues on the background.

A great shot showing a decisive moment as well as understanding of and use of colour contrasts and differences between artificial and dusk light. A perfect moment and a sweet reminder of a pandemic that will hopefully soon be a distant memory!

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A great shot that stood out amongst a very large field of cityscapes.

I particularly like the use of green hue which gives an unexpected but very intentional push away from reality and towards a cyberpunk metropolis, which I'm always a sucker for!

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**This contest is open to photographers ranked between 251 and 1000 in this week’s <a href="https://www.photocrowd.com/photographer-community/">Leaderboard</a>.** Light pours out of our towns and cities, and what we shoot, and how we use that light sets the mood of our images. Commercial districts are lit by grids of office windows. Bar-lined streets throw out neon hues, and everywhere the street lamps and windows of shops and restaurants light the pavements. Exploring the built environment after dark is an exciting and rewarding photographic adventure.

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