The session follows the bike track from Princes Road to Stoneferry and around the Fountain Road area.  The session was at night, as walking down the path, following in the footsteps of Brassai, Ilse Bing, Robert Doisneau, and Andre Kertesz, to begin with. There are many night time images on the Facebook groups, I am part of; Hull Creative Photography, Photography from Hull and Beyond, Yorkshire Digital Photography Club, EricpareLearn.com, and these have many people capturing images at night. However, like Brassai`s contemporaries who often shoot the local landmarks and not the streets around the scene.  The streets at night for me are ethereal and have hyper-saturated colours coming out in the images, creating dreamlike imagery, and showing sights most people do not see. Brassai said of his work, `My ambition has always been to show the everyday city as if we were discovering t for the first time.’ Meltzer (2014)

The way the light changes normal ordinary scenes into completely different scenes, once illuminated with the streetlamps. When a mixture of different lighting solutions is present in the scene the strips of colours add another dimension to the scene and give bands of colour running through the image. I am using the assignment to make myself go and capture some of the images that have inspired me as I go about my daily business.  When I am walking down the paths and tracks around Hull, I have seen some potential scenes that could be, captured in photographic images.  The way the street lights shine through the tree branches, creates some interesting and inspirational shadow areas on the paths.  The way in which the streets change from day to night is also inspirational for me, in how they appear under the different lighting conditions. The moonlight also helped to illuminate the scenes and bring the exposure time down a little and added a pleasing dimension to the captures, illuminating some of the shadow areas outside of the lampposts lighting area in the scenes.  For this shoot I put a camera strap onto my camera, (I never put a strap on my camera, as I find that they are cumbersome and easily become entangled and cause damage to the equipment, when in tight spaces)

However, for this way of working, I found it to be an extremely useful and an aid, to quickly unzipping my jacket to capture an image and left no potential photographic scenes un-imaged.  I will be working with a strap more often, although on long walks the swinging camera is tiresome and unwieldy, whilst carrying on long multi-day trips with a backpack wilderness camping.

For me the way the street light, emphasizes various aspects of the common place, under its illumination has been a fascination as a child.  The way the different seasons change the aesthetics of this yet again, is almost magical keeps my interest as an adult, as much as it did as a child, making a daily walk, an almost, constantly changing vista of the sights before our eyes, whether that be industrial, suburban or the countryside.

I chose a local bike track, for this assignment, as it is part of an area, in which I have not yet imaged.  I have also chosen some of the local landmarks to image at night, as these are usually, imaged during the day by other photographers.  With this method, hopefully, I should be able to document the area in a new and fresh way.

I waited for a clear night with the moon shining bright in the sky, as I was hoping to get some images of the river with the moon in the background in a similar fashion to some of Ansel Adams photographic imagery.  Also, some of the naturally lit Aspens that he photographed could be taken by myself in the lamplit bike track. I took some of the images with front and backlight to see what the differences are, and how they would look in an image.  I also managed to get some shots of moonlit trees, to try and mix this around.  After the bike track I then went around some of the local industrial area and tried to capture some of the differences in how they look at night, all atmospheric and dreamlike.