58. SFV at Night

Tonight's post is inspired by Brassai, the Hungarian photographer from the 1930's that published a book called, "Paris at Night". He often walked late at night and captured the abandon streets under ambient light from street lights and cars. The effect is enchanting. Eventually he took his camera inside the only establishments open at late at night, bars and brothels, and photograph the patrons with harsh flash.

A few weeks ago when up in the mountains I did a series of images of snowy landscapes under an almost full moon. In post production I was able to push the images closer to daylight.  The result is curious and  unlikely (see post #22  Magic). Tonight's long exposure shed such odd light on my banal orange tree in my suburban backyard - it resembles flash or daylight but is neither. I have to play with the process a lot more, but there is something surreal to the exposures and I can't walk away from it just yet.