Although we are slowly edging towards spring, with it being lighter for a little longer each day now, it is still dark by the time I leave work, so I have been experimenting with the new camera’s night mode.

Bruntsfield Place at night. Improvised night shot, setting the timer and sitting the camera on a flat-topped traffic bollard to steady it for some long exposure shots. This means you get no choice over angles, as you would with the tripod, but it’s a handy way to take night shots when you don’t have the tripod with you (like when walking home from work!).

Light trails from traffic crossing the junction of Holy Corner, where our old bookshop used to be (it gets its name from the fact there is a church on each corner of the junction)

Reflections on the Union Canal after dark.

Light trails on the Western Approach Road at Fountainbridge

More light trails, this time as traffic passes the Conan Doyle pub at Picardy Place. The pub is named for the creator of Sherlock Holmes, who had his family home near this spot (a statue of Sherlock stands nearby, just a few metres behind the vantage point of this photo, near the tram stop)

Playhouse Theatre at night, then a closer shot as the traffic lights changed and the cars started moving, so I got some more light trails.

A couple of different light trails this time, the line of headlights, the cars themselves ghosted out of the photo, but the camera also picked up these unusual, overlapping light patterns lower in the image, which I rather like.

I am a sucker for a night shot with streetlights glistening on wet roads after rain, especially a monochrome take. Took this the other evening walking home from the railway station after visiting dad.

As ever, to see the full-sized versions, click on the pictures to visit my Flickr stream (which somehow racked up well over a million views last year).