Wyndham Terrace (from the Park)

After the acid vulgarity of yesterday's assault on the senses, something altogether more pleasant and serene.

One thing about all this clinging, oppressive low cloud is that, with a time exposure, at night, the ambient light from the city's lights bounces off - it's like one giant soft-box. You can sense the stillness as no twig has moved an inch, despite the near 3 minute exposure.

Changing the orangey-brown to a grey-blue (de-saturate the image completely i.e. black & white and then add an overall colour photo filter in Photoshop) has made it rather more cool and classical.

The tracery of those branches and twigs looks even better 'large', the detail is from the excellent Sigma EX 24-70mm f2.8 at its widest, on FX format - a lens I should really use more for landscapes, but is often overlooked by the seriously wide (& old!) Nikkor 17-35mm f2.8. The quality is similar, which is saying a lot for the Sigma.

A similar approach and treatment (same lens) was used for this blip, 'The Still of the Night', which remains my third most viewed image, here. No sharpening tools were used in the editing of either of these images...