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Night Photography by niallsb: Forevolution

January 29th, 2008 1:56 AM / Location: -40.76244,145.29619

INSTRUCTIONS: Explore your neighborhood in deepest, darkest night.

Share photographs and other impressions of your exploration.

Firstly, my heavily SfØ related blog is up and running. Check it out here:
http://niallsb.blogspot.com/

To get the full niallsb experience, read through the captions in the photos. The captions explain a helluva lot more than the write-up does.

To complete this task, I needed to sneak out of the house because mum doesn't like me staying up so late. She has a point, I guess.

Anyway, I pretended to go to bed. When everybody else was asleep I got dressed into special dressing gown ninja gear:

Then I started on my way. My first stop...

...the kitchen, for some cake.

The first nighttime occurance was that of the bikes that had appeared in our yard. This was unusual because they we're there when I last checked.
Where did they come from?
The garage, probably.
Who put them there?
I have no idea, but seeing them there was a bit of a suprise.

I began to walk towards the towns centre, its CBD if you will (it's only one street though).
I had barely walked one block when I came across a familiar face:

Fergie! What was she doing out so late at night (yes, I see the hypocrisy)! Fergie belongs to my little brother. He's had her for about a year now. She's always escaping and roaming around. I took her home and restarted my walk.

The problem about Stanley is that no "deepest, darkest night" actually occurs. Walking down the main street at night is like walking down it at day, it's that bright. This is mainly due to street lamps.
Another unique feature of Stanley (as if the Gigantic Rock wasn't enough) is that every shop owner leaves their lights on, all night. This would be incredibly risky anywhere else in the world, but Stanley shopkeepers are made of stronger stuff than normal (which is good because their windows certainly aren't!).
I marveled at how easy it would be to smash'n'grab, although I don't think most people would dare, due to the brightness of the area (and we do have alarms, I suppose).

Next notable thing I found during my walk: Interesting seats. We have more than our fair share in Stanley, each a work of art. My favourite seat is the Wavy Seat, situated outside the Town Hall. It really ups the towns atmosphere by being this great piece of practical art:

Other notable parts of Stanley: Its architecture. The Town Hall, Old Bank and the house in between are the best examples. The War memorial is also pretty noticable at night; it is lit by giant green floodlight (oh dear):

When I got near the small jetty, two men were getting into a truck at the shipyard. I quickly sat down on a bench and tried to look as inconspicuous as possible (not easy when you're a dressing gown ninja under a lamppost).

It was when I got to the Mini-Mart that I decided to head back home (my watch also thought it was a good idea).

So, while I have easily completed this task, I realised that I was a terrible ninja: I could constantly be seen at any time. Although if I really wanted to be a proper ninja I would have had to remain in darkness at all times, which means the only place I would be able to go to would be behind the Nut. Uh, no thankyou.

Last thought:
~I took over 100 photos for this task. The only omitted photos were out of focus or blurry (or often both).~

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Glowing Thumb

I get this effect when I put my reading light behind my thumb. All of the human body is translucent to a point (except bones).

Home Dental Surgery?

I am trying to produce another effect.

Not a Neurofen ad.

This is my reading light, pressed into the inside of my cheek.

Who's that?

Niallsb: dressing gown ninja.

It's is very hard to take good photos of yourself. That is my dressing gown belt, tied around my head, ninja style. It stayed like that for the whole night.

Ninja Action Shot.

On a bed.

Cake!

It's Cake! Everybody loves Cake! Everybody also like sweeping generalisations!

Bikes.

Where did they all come from?

More bikes.

See, we fitted them with reflective panels so that we don't get hit at night.

All the Bikes

There's three of them there. Where did they come from?

The Moon

No, really. It is.

The Stanley Night Sky

This is why I hate this camera. Stanley at night really is beautiful.

Fergie

I found her a block away from our house doing, well, I have no idea.

Fergie, go home!

Bad Girl! She gets out often too.

Touchwood at night.

I didn't have to use a flash to look into any shops. They were honestly this bright.

The Craypot at Night

See the TVs, top left. I don't know why they bother keeping them on constantly. You can't here them. And late night programming sucks and blows.

Fairy Lights?

Very bright.

Just For You at Night

The resident gift shop. The lights really scream "steal something!"

The Chocolate Shop at Night

Including a giant platypus and an old cash register.

Platypus

A small platypus advertising platypus tours.

Penguin

Adorable, yet vaguely advertistic.

Chocolate Shop Jars

I used a flash here. Those are the rows of jars that the Chocolate Shop keeps their lollies and choccies in.

The Swingin' Anchor at Night

The cafe that's attached to the Chocolate Shop.

The Bottle Shop at Night

Quite a bit of wine is in full view of all passers-by. Potato chips too.

The Newsagents at Night

Drumstick is an icecream from Peters (if you don't get them in America/Britain/Sri Lanka). (Okay, Canada/Vietnam/Cuba/Mexico/Germany/France/Ireland/Spain/Brazil/Netherland/Egypt/Italy/Japan/Indonesia/New Caledonia/Russia/Sweeden/Iceland/Greenland/Poland/Lapland) (Anywhere else?)

The Art Gallery at Night

The only place that turns their lights off at night. Probably because they are the only place that has anything worth stealing.

More Art Gallery

If you ever come to Stanley, consider buying something. The artists and the craftspeople don't get many actual purchases and they'd really love you if you did. They need to eat too!

Hursey's Seafood

It really looks like I'm inside the store, doesn't it? Well I'm not.

The Mini-Mart at Night

Probably one of the least well lit shop in Stanley, also the only shop not on the main street of Stanley. Ah, the irony.

Oh how Tacky.

Where would you put these anyway? Tassie is Tasmania's nickname.

relax

This is purchasable from Providore 24. I'd buy it. Maybe.

Providore 24 at Night

My favourite shop in Stanley. Also, the only place to buy baked goods. Yum!

Seats of Stanley-Organ Seat

This is a pretty big seat situated outside of the Town Hall. It looks like an organ, don't you think.

Seats of Stanley-Wave Seat

A wooden seat made by Mark from the Art Gallery, most likely. It has excellent craftmanship.

Wave Seat-side view

This is pretty functional seat if you like lying down. I like it.

Seats of Stanley-Stone and Wood Seat

At the end of this seat is a block of stone with the continuing single wave pattern that goes through the seat. The next side has a better view of it.

Stone and Wood Seat-other side