JULY Challenge: After Dark

[admin]

Sorry Odille,

Last night after checking the outcome for June, I nicked one of your suggestions from last month and set up a gallery and board.
Is 'After Dark " OK for July? I promise we can do the sunset/sunrise thing for August...
But if you are all set on it for July, no big deal..I can set up tomorrow.

OTB for now its very late.

[Analog6]

Nah, as you say, sunrises/sunsets keep very well indeed.  They happen every day!

After Darl itis. 

Go forth and post, you Light Artists!

[Tim N]

Nah, as you say, sunrises/sunsets keep very well indeed.  They happen every day!

After Dark it is. 

Go forth and post, you Light Artists!

I hope after dark continues to happen every day as well otherwise I will begin to worry 

[Ross and Cher]

Last night a ... I nicked one of your suggestions from last month and set up a gallery and board.
Is 'After Dark " OK for July?

Hmm Mr Admin Dude ahead of the game, we can't have that now can we??

Following on from Steve's (Calnum) game, lets play 20 questions with him:-

How dark is dark?
Is it still dark if someone turns a light on? what about a torch??
Are pre light shots acceptable?
IF day follows night, then isn't it also true that light is after dark, therefore we should be doing light shots???

 

[admin]

You are a trouble maker young man!
Interpret as you wish, never let be said that we would stifle the creative process, so if dark happens to go and you find yourself in light again - go for it!
 

[Ross and Cher]

Moi, a trouble maker??? I resemble that remark!!!! 

Cheers

[Analog6]

Here's an opportunity - story and pic from Sydney Morning Herald. While the lights out bit doesn't apply to many of us, knowing what you are photographing is useful.

Lights will go down as real stars steal show

Richard Macey - July 4, 2008
IT IS not Earth Hour, but the lights are going out again all over much of the city's central business district.
The Opera House, the Harbour Bridge, the AMP building and Governor Phillip and Governor Macquarie towers are among more than a score of city and North Sydney buildings and structures that have promised to dip their lights tonight and tomorrow night.
The aim is to let the stars shine once more through Sydney's light-polluted skies, providing a treat for visitors attending Sydney Observatory's Festival of the Stars.
City buildings have been switching off lights for the annual star festival since 2005, two years before Earth Hour's debut.
"They got the idea from us," said Sydney Observatory's astronomer, Nick Lomb.
"There will be a nice collection of planets visible."
Visitors will use an array of telescopes to study the rings of Saturn, the cloud bands that encircle Jupiter, and Jupiter's four largest moons, Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto, discovered almost 400 years ago by Galileo.
They will also be taken on a torchlight tour of the neighbouring signal station, which dates back to the age of sail.
Dr Lomb urged people to take advantage of two celestial alignments in the western sky tonight, to identify Venus, Mars and Saturn with the naked eye.
Anyone with a view of the north-western horizon should be able to glimpse Venus, making a very brief appearance as the fabled evening star, from about 5.15pm until it sets at 5.27pm.
"The moon will be a very thin crescent, just above Venus, which will become the first object visible in the sky [after sunset]."
Higher up, Mars, will appear to hover just below Saturn. Just below the Red Planet will be Regulus, "the brightest star in the constellation Leo the lion".
"On Saturday evening," Dr Lomb said, "the sky is similar, but the crescent moon is much higher up, closer to Mars and Saturn. Each evening Mars slowly edges towards Saturn, passing it on July 10 and 11."
Entry to the Festival of the Stars, open from 6pm to 10pm today and tomorrow, costs $15 for adults and $45 for families.

[admin]

Cool!
We left a friends house on Friday night and we couldn't help noticing Saturn. It was very bright.

[OZZI-BLOKE]

To much clouds, fog and rain to see anything down my way.