Here in the northern hemisphere, summer is slowly fading away. The September equinox is behind us, and as the days grow shorter and shorter, a casual evening walk turns into a night stroll, at least in the pictures :)
It wasn’t particularly late, but it was already dark. I still haven’t gotten used to seeing the shops open and people running errands without sunlight flooding the streets. I suppose that’s the after-effect of a long summer, when daylight seems endless and evenings stretch far into the night. The sudden shift always catches me by surprise. Anyway, for this walk I chose the quietest part of the old town. Away from the shops, the bars and the tourists. I wanted silence and the small streets looked so lonesome, almost deserted.
Exactly what I was aiming for :)
After a few random shots, a pattern started to form in my mind. I began focusing on the streetlights themselves. It wasn’t the glow that attracted me but what surrounded it. The light was almost secondary. What fascinated me was the darkness it left behind. Each lamp seemed less like a source of clarity and more like an architect of shadow. They created pockets of mystery, corners where the light faded into soft blackness, outlines that only hinted at what might be there.
And suddenly, everything became more interesting. I remembered how different the town feels when you stop looking for its postcard charm. In daylight it’s cheerful, full of movement and detail. At night, especially in these forgotten alleys, it becomes quieter, older, more secretive. You sense its layers, the lives lived behind closed shutters, the stories embedded in the stone.
Even the kittens turned their heads toward me, gazing with that calm, curious look only cats have, wondering what on earth I was doing with the clicking machine in my hand :)
By the time I returned home, I hadn’t walked very far, but it felt as if I’d traveled somewhere else entirely. That’s the strange gift of photography. You begin with no plan, and then something small, a lamp, a shadow, a thought, turns an ordinary evening into a small discovery.
And just like that, an ordinary walk on a dark September evening became something worth remembering!
The camera that I used is a Canon EOS 6D mark II with an EF 50mm f1.8 lens attached. I edited the photographs in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic
All the pictures and the words are mine.
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