Muddy Night Walk

After a nice amount of rain even the mud seemed to sparkle.

Night Scenes

Now that I've finally learned more about the camera on my smartphone, I'm enjoying what it can do. On Automatic mode, nothing looked good when photographed at night. But now I set it on Night mode, and the photos are amazing.

Did you know that we have a basketball court in the neighborhood very close to the pool?

Jerusalem of Gold

I was walking in Jerusalem the other night and decided to see how nicely my new smartphone camera works.

Jerusalem definitely has a golden hue to it, and I didn't edit these at all!

Night Came so Early

As I try to psyche myself up for the very first super short Friday of the year, I'm posting some "traveling home in the dark" photos I took Sunday night which was the first early night of the year. You may be wondering what I mean, since the times of sunset and sunrise do change slowly, because the earth in relation to the sun is slow.  But remember that only last Saturday night-Sunday pre-morning did we switch from Daylight Savings Time to Greenwich +2.  The result is that Shabbat candlelighting time is going to be over an hour earlier this week (today) than it was last week, so I and all the other Sabbath observers will have an hour less to get all the cooking and cleaning done. And when I was traveling home from the dentist in Jerusalem last Sunday, it was dark when my body felt it should be light.

On the trip back I had a good seat in the bus and took lots of photos. Night can be gorgeous as you can see here.

waiting for the bus at the "String Bridge" stop

entering the busy traffic

Jerusalem "city line"

"Lucky Night," Night Photography 52 Frames

I took a lot of photos for the Night Photography theme/challenge on 52 Frames. But none of the photos came out the way I wanted. I guess night photography is not for cheap cameras, even a Canon IXUS 145.

After much cropping, I managed to get a pretty clear image of this electronic billboard advertising a lottery drawing at 22:00, that's 10pm at night.

No doubt that it was a lucky night for someone.