Spellbound

Walking back home through the back streets of Cardiff I was struck one by how large and bright the moon was that night. Its strange, pale light lit the night and cast an unearthly glow upon the streets below. I was instantly spellbound.

Taking pictures that night I followed the moon. Capturing passing street lights and strangers, shadow filled roads and the buildings that had been caught in the glare of these strange and beautiful lights.

Buildings became haunted houses, passing strangers became romantic and other and trees became arcane and occult bewitched by the light of the moon.

For that night the streets of Cardiff weren't the same, for that one night the city wasn't the same. Under that unearthly night everything became spellbound.

Night city lights

Cardiff city is a really attractive place to go out and photograph at night. Its bright, bold and practically shimmers with multi coloured neon lights. Or at least it normally would be if I hadn't chosen the one night of the week where it pissing it down with rain.

Still after hiding in doorways, dodging howling blasts of wind and the considerable amounts of water pouring from the heavens I was able to capture the essence of Cardiff at night.


If anything the stormy weather only added to the mystique of the city further, adding hazy reflections and a dramatic imposing sky with which to contrast the night lights against.

After getting all the shots I had wanted I left for home and a hot chocolate happy in the knowledge I had done my best to capture the night city lights.

The streets are paved with gold

 I hadn't felt the creative bug in a while but walking home it had been raining and seeing the colour of the sky and the lights reflecting on the streets had me itching the reach for my camera.

With the rain and wind creating an evocative dance of shadow and light I was able to take shot of lights that paved the night in gold. Turned rivelets of water running down a wall into lava and created a whirling dervish of dancing branches.