I saw the light show on Tuesday evening on the way home from my karate lesson and, although it wasn’t the greatest light show, I thought it would look good as a long exposure photo at dusk time. I was busy on Wednesday evening at karate again but free on Thursday so I decided to take the photo then. So on Thursday I headed over to Crookes Valley Park as the Arts Tower is reflected in the lake if you stand at the far end of the Park. I got there at 5.30 to catch the sunset. On previous evenings I had heard that the light show started at about 6PM so I figured I wouldn’t have long to wait.
There was a lovely colour in the sky just after sunset so I took the photo at the top of the post.
I then waited for the light show to start. At 6PM there was nothing. Nothing at 6.30PM. And nothing at 7PM either. I thought that perhaps they had decided to start the show later on Thursday than on previous nights but I was confident that it would start by 7.30PM as that was the time I drove past on Tuesday and the show was on then.
7.30PM came and went and still no show. I was starting to get get very annoyed (and not to mention pretty cold too). As there was no show at 8PM and I was really cold by now I decided to cut my losses and head back to my car. It took 15 minutes to walk back and I passed the front of the Arts Tower and there was still no show.
My only other photos this week were at a kobudo course run by my karate club. I can’t share any of those photos as I don’t have permission from all of the parents of the kids on the course.
So I have no choice but to use the photo above as my Week 9 submission to the View 52 group. It is an OK submission but it would look much better I think if the top four floors of the tower were lit up with different coloured lights!
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