Portsmouth at Night

[squirmelia]

A number of tripods gathered, without armbands, in the car-park of Hilsea Lido on a Thursday night, for the Portsmouth at Night Flickr meet. The lido, dating back from the 1930s, hid behind fences, unreachable and unaware of the fairy clocks on the Hilsea lines. Down an overgrown path, with flashes held at their heads, the photographers that ran looked for a moment like zombies, or perhaps just the cover of a Queen album.

The evening ended when they light-painted their names onto empty walls, ready to vanish as they did.

Comments

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

I'm looking forward to the results.

Lightpainting your name onto a wall, now there's an idea. :o)

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

I hadn't really done any night photography before, so my photos are not very good, unfortunately. I now have wintrmute's old tripod and have seen some of the photos other people took that night, so I think I shall attempt more in future.

Light-painting graffiti seems less risky than actually painting it. :)

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

I haven't really done anything, either, except for some better lit ones (rides at the Midsummer Fair etc.) some of which came out quite well.

I need to try this at one point. :o)