[guerito]

Yes, we ventured out and took some night shots!

We wanted to do this since long ago, but I never really got round to it - I had some (irrational?) worries about walking in dark alleys with expensive gear. Today, a photographer friend called and we went together. With four people it seemed not so scary anymore.

House Of Photography


Speicherstadt

Old storage buildings turned into really expensive real estate...

Bicycle


Rain-On-Lens Filter Effect


Hamburger Michel

This church tower is one of the city's landmarks, "Der Spiegel" is a magazine...

Speicherstadt, Bridge


Deutsches Zollmuseum

The museum of the German customs office. Lots of smuggled things, or so I've heard...

[Janika]

Wow, This set is really something. It was worth the effort. Love the image you've taken here!

John

[NT73]

The translation helps also. I knew spiegel but not zoll.
I rather like the way the river looks like a sheet of ice, and the colours you have obtained.

[Keith Alan]

Very good night work!

[Kombisaurus]

Looks like a beautiful city, G.
I particularly like #2. Those lights are really inviting you to travel up that river.
The last two shots also really grab me.

[Rabid Penguin]

awesome pictures!

[wulinka]

Beautyful portraits of the city!

[Toad]

Awesome! I am a hge fan of night shots (as you know), and these are really great. I really like the one with the bicycle!

[Wedding Shooter]

Thanks for sharing G - number 2 and the last shot stand out.

[guerito]

Thanks a lot!

Taking these shots was actually a mixed experience. It began to rain soon after we arrived, and at this point I wished I had stayed at home. Especially as I thought my camera was broken. I had forgotten that I had the mirror lockup activated... But then the rain stopped, the camera worked fine again, and the rest of the shooting was nice. And so was the dinner at an Italian restaurant. Nothing better to warm up than a pizza or, in my case, "Salciccia Abruzzese" - Italian sausages, tomato sauce with olives and herbs, potatoes and spinach. Washed down with a Montepulciano. Mmmm, delicious...